“Ten Ways Emotional Stress Affects Physical Performance in the Equine Athlete”
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“Ten Ways Emotional Stress Affects Physical Performance in the Equine Athlete”
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“Ten Ways Emotional Stress Affects Physical Performance in the Equine Athlete”
A: Stress is commonly thought of when we talk about human performance, and clearly something that you consider to have influence across the board. Stress and its influence on horse athletes seems to be among your primary considerations yes…?
B: From what you have learned in your field studies of horses in the natural environment, do horses in this environment share stress collectively or is it an entirely individual experience?
C: How does stress that is collectively distributed differ than stress that is individually processed?
D: Do different disciplines manifest different types of emotional stress?
E: When you think of “performance stress” what are some of the basic characteristics of it?
F: With performance stress being largely singular in nature, competitive stress must stem from an environment that involves more than one horse?
G: Does time and duration play any role in how a horse manages stress?
H: In your recent paper you describe emotional stress as an “ultimate chameleon”, how do you break this puzzle down during the evaluation process?
I: How important is it to determine how a particular horse is dealing with the stresses they experience?
J: One of the things we as horse owners find ourselves dealing with, is a horse with “vices”, especially in the stall. Do you consider some of these vices to be an expression of emotional stress?
K: When it comes to physical health, we often hear in our world that emotional wellness helps lead to physical health and healing, how impactful can emotional stress be on the physical horse? and How would you summarize your thoughts regarding the influence that emotional stress can have?
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