Human Massage Therapy / Myofascial Release Practitioner

07/02/2026

07/02/2026

Why are you doing a webinar on rider biomechanics?
Did you know that rider asymmetry can show up as imbalance in the hoof?

A growing body of biomechanical research clearly demonstrates that rider physiology has profound effects on the horse’s musculoskeletal system. Asymmetries in rider posture, tone, and movement do not act locally at the saddle alone, but alter thoracolumbar motion, load distribution, and limb kinematics throughout the stride. Because the rider influences both the axial skeleton and distal limb mechanics, the horse is required to reorganise its entire musculoskeletal system to maintain balance and locomotor efficiency. From a farriery perspective, this means that many of the morphological changes observed in the feet are not isolated hoof problems, but downstream expressions of asymmetrical loading driven higher up the system. In this way, the hoof often reflects the rider as much as it reflects the horse.

Join us today at 5pm London for a webinar on the subject...

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/riderbiomechanics

07/02/2026

Perfectly said. The human condition. How do we solve this uncomfortable situation.

I’ve noticed a pattern that’s been bothering me, and I think it says something uncomfortable about our industry.

When I post about hoof balance and how it affects the horse, it gets attention.
When I post about pathology, posture, or the professional working on the horse, it gets attention.

But when I post about the rider.
Or the environment.
Or human management.
Or the fact that the horse is living in a species-inappropriate world.

Silence.

And that silence tells a story.

We are very good at engaging with problems that allow responsibility to sit somewhere else. Somewhere external. Somewhere that doesn’t require us to change how we ride, manage, house, train, or think.

But when the finger turns back toward the human system surrounding the horse, engagement drops off a cliff.

My webinar series on ethological reasons why the industry needs to change had the lowest viewing figures of any series I’ve ever run. And yet, arguably, it was the most important work I’ve done. Because the pathological relationships we like to discuss, lameness patterns, postural collapse, behavioural fallout, chronic tension, almost always trace back to the same origin.

The implications of domestication and how far modern horse management has drifted from the biological and behavioural needs of the animal.

This isn’t just an equestrian problem. It’s a human one.

Psychology has a name for this pattern. Cognitive dissonance. When evidence threatens our identity, habits, or sense of competence, the nervous system doesn’t lean in. It protects. As described by Leon Festinger, humans will often avoid, dismiss, or disengage from information that implies personal responsibility or behavioural change, even when the evidence is strong.

There’s also the well-documented bias toward external attribution. We are more comfortable blaming tools, professionals, or isolated body parts than confronting systemic causes that implicate our own choices. Especially when those choices are culturally normalised.

But horses don’t live in fragments. They live in systems.
And we are the dominant variable in that system.

If we only ever talk about what’s wrong with the horse, or the hoof, or the tack, without addressing the rider and the environment that shape them every single day, we are treating symptoms while preserving causes.

The truth is harder.
Because the truth asks something of us.

It asks for responsibility, not blame.
It asks for change, not critique.
And it asks us to sit with the discomfort of realising that many of the problems we study so closely are downstream of human inertia.

Silence doesn’t mean the message is wrong.
Often, it means it’s landed exactly where it hurts.

With that in mind, I invite anyone who’s willing to lean into this to engage with the ethology series and the upcoming webinar on rider biomechanics on Jan 28 not as a sales pitch, but because it truly matters to the horse.

👉 https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/riderbiomechanics
👉 https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/bundles/how-can-the-equine-industry-maintain-its-social-licence-to-operate

29/01/2026

26/01/2026

Did you know? Rider asymmetry directly alters horse movement

📚 The science
Multiple studies have shown that rider asymmetry changes the horse’s thoracolumbar motion and limb loading.
When riders are made artificially asymmetric (e.g. one shortened stirrup), horses show measurable changes in back kinematics and asymmetric limb loading patterns (Peham et al., 2001; Hobbs et al., 2014).

🧠 What this means biomechanically
The horse doesn’t move “under” the rider, it moves with the rider as part of a coupled system.
When the rider is asymmetric, the horse must reorganise spinal motion and limb forces to keep the combined system balanced.

🧍 In plain terms
If you sit heavier on one side, collapse one hip, or rotate through your trunk, your horse has to compensate, even if it looks subtle to you.

That compensation shows up as:
• difficulty bending one way
• uneven steps
• one limb “taking more load”
• the horse feeling stronger on one rein

🎓 Why this matters?

Join us for a webinar to find out…

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/riderbiomechanics

Image taken from Hobbs et al. 2014

05/01/2026

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04/01/2024

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