E.C.H Physiotherapy

15/04/2025

Mid-week stretches. Spent the morning with wonderful clients 🐴.
Thanks again

17/03/2025

Unlike humans, horses don’t have collarbones. Their shoulders are held to the rest of their skeleton via a sling of muscles and ligaments instead, often referred to as the “thoracic sling.”

Why is this important? We often ask our equine athletes to perform complex movements that require tremendous strength and coordination, and horses carry the majority of their weight in their front end. Therefore, it is imperative that the bulk of the muscles that support the front end are kept healthy and conditioned, and the horse is trained to use their “motor” — that is, engaging the large hind end muscles as much as possible to avoid excessive weight bearing on the front end.

If the front end of the horse is consistently overweighted or not at an appropriate level of fitness, repetitive biomechanical stresses get transferred down the leg to the smaller ligaments and tendons that were not designed to bear this weight, which can then lead to injury.

Brought to you by the AAEP Horse Owner Education Committee.

10/02/2025

22/01/2025

🐎FREE Horse Health Lecture Series - Gatton campus or zoom

We are inviting horse owners to attend 7 short lectures on Saturday, February 1st, from 3pm – 7pm. To attend in person or to watch online via Zoom, register here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uqvets-horsemans-health-lecture-series-tickets-1206200531259?aff=oddtdtcreator

Topics include:
▪️Equine emergencies- when to call the vet
▪️Horse parasitology myths
▪️MRI in standing horses
▪️QLD itch
▪️Hendra vaccination
▪️Obesity/EMS/PPID
▪️Toxic plants and poison risks

📍Location: Hamon Centre Lecture Theatre on Services Road
Places limited. Snacks provided.

Thank you to our sponsors Boehringer Ingelheim, Zoetis, Red Healer and Australian Society for Parasitology.

03/01/2025

Best of luck to all vendors, buyers and future track champions 🐴

DM for Physiotherapy consultation availability 3-12 January

20/10/2024

It is an absolute pleasure getting to work with these two giant gentlemen Oscar ⬅️and Vale➡️🐴.
Owner and competitor 💃🏽 is incredibly hard working and dedicated on improving and getting the best out of her equine athletes 💪

Utilise your physio for !
☑️Exercise prescription
☑️Program load management
☑️Corrective exercise
☑️Physical assessments
☑️Manual therapies

28/09/2024

Anyone interested in a clinic? 🐴

24/09/2024

One of the many reasons to work as a multidisciplinary team for horse injuries 🙏 🐴

Do long toes and low heels lead to superficial digital flexor injury?

Superficial digital flexor tendon injury accounts for 75-95% of injury. And long toe low heel is the most common hoof balance, coincidence?

Most SDFT injury is caused by cyclic overload, a build up of micro damage caused by the tendon exceeding its elastic capacity repeatedly.

This can be caused by poor hoof balance, namely a long toe and low heels!

When you have a basic understanding of biomechanics this is easy to understand.

Join myself and The study of the equine hoof on 3rd Oct at 7pm BST for a class in basic biomechanics and understanding the physical effects of long toes, low heels and a broken back hoof Pastern axis..

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/digit-biomechanics-101

18/08/2024

Interested in enhancing your eventing cross-country? 🐎 ⛰️

What makes a horse run clear across the country?

Today's article of the day is "Factors associated with safe completion of Fédération Equestre Internationale eventing cross-country (2008–2018)" by Bennet et. al.

Read it here - https://bit.ly/3WSUjHV

15/05/2024

Strong bodies, strong minds 💪 🐴

03/05/2024

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💡 Manual therapy + Exercises was more effective, both in the short term and intermediate term, than dry needling + Exercises in reducing pain, disability, and improving function in patients with mechanical neck pain.

👉🏻 This is from the new paper "Dry Needling Versus Manual Therapy for Patients With Mechanical Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial" by Pandya et al 2024

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23/04/2024

Tell me the horse is an athlete without telling me…. 🐴