E.C.H Physiotherapy

06/03/2026

08/01/2026

Not just horses this year.. 🙏

07/01/2026

19/10/2025

Discuss with your veterinarian about Physiotherapy for your horses 🐴 🙏

Equine lameness expert veterinarians from the global ISELP community participated in a recent survey from SLEIP.

More than half of veterinary respondents reported an increasing trend in lameness associated with genetic predisposition (54%) and training load (50%) over the past five years. Nearly one-third (32%) have seen a rise in cases they attribute to changes in sports surfaces.

Read more insights from the survey here: https://myseniorhorse.com/diseases-and-conditions/lameness/survey-gives-equine-lameness-insights/

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