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A veteran equine veterinarian explains that horses often hide pain, but subtle signs reveal underlying issues. Problems like sore hocks, bucking, girthiness, head shyness, hoof stress lines, digestive issues, skin problems, and behavior changes often stem from deeper causes such as spinal misalignments, ulcers, liver or gut imbalances, nerve issues, poor saddle fit, or mineral deficiencies. Treating symptoms alone isn’t enough—root causes must be addressed through proper alignment, nutrition, gut health, and liver support. She promotes her Tucker Biokinetic Technique (TBT), an energy-based method designed to identify and heal the root causes of pain, helping horses achieve long-term balance and health.

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Renee (00:00:00.00)
Horses suffer quietly, and owners often miss the warning signs. I’m a 30-year equine veterinarian, and I’ve helped thousands of horses. Here are some signs your horse is in pain before it’s too late, and how to heal the root issues. I’ll start with back related pain and what it actually means, and then continue with neck pain, digestive, hoof and skin issues, hind end, and back related pain. Soar hocks means a low back problem. The hocks are like our ankle. Our ankle can move in all directions, helping us balance and compensate for problems. The Hawk does the same thing. So whenever there’s an imbalance coming from either above or below the Hawk, such as misalignments, muscle knots, or nerve problems, whatever it is, the Hawk picks up the slack. Hawks compensate for many problems, but the low back or lumbar area is the most common. You can help the sore back issue with massage, chiropractic, and other modalities. Of course, be sure to check the saddle fit, but these are just ways to treat the symptoms. I’ll share in the end how to heal the issues forever. When your horse stands still, if they are almost always resting one hind leg, this means something higher up hurts.

Renee (00:01:13.17)
If a horse stands like this, I guarantee you that their lumbar area is misaligned. Now, you can help this with chiropractic care, but the real question is, why is the lumbar misaligned? Sometimes it’s straightforward with misalignment, but, strangely enough, it It can also be due to liver issues. As I’ve shared in previous videos, many horses have liver issues. The liver is located below and to the right of the lumbar region. Therefore, when the liver is struggling, the lumbar area becomes stiff and then the hocks compensate, and then your horse is on joint supplements and hoch injections, and you wonder how you got there. If it’s a simple misalignment, one or two chiropractic treatments will fix it. If it constantly reoccurrs, then consider trying TBT liver revival. Sacral misalignment can affect nerve transmission, and the horse doesn’t clearly know what the hindlings are doing. If your horse cross-canners or cross-fires, this means the sacrum is misaligned. It’s uncomfortable and un natural for a horse to a cross canner or crossfire. Sometimes horses have this look on their face like, What is happening down there? Other times, they don’t seem to know there’s a problem. Here’s what’s happening.

Renee (00:02:25.05)
The nerves that tell the hind legs what to do travel through the sacrum. That’s bone at the top of the butt. Sacrum misalignment can affect nerve transmission, and the horse doesn’t really know what the hind legs are doing. Sacrum misalignment can be corrected with chiropractic care. But as always, it’s good to know why is the horse’s sacrum misaligned in the first place. Can horses follow misaligning their sacrum? Sure. But if it’s a reoccurring problem, most likely it’s the pelvic symphasis, which is the bottom of the pelvis. Here’s my analogy. Think of the pelvic symphasis as the foundation of a house. When the pelvic symphasis is misaligned, it’s like a crooked house foundation. No matter how many times you straighten the curtains, they’re going to get crooked again because the foundation wasn’t fixed. If you don’t fix the pelvic symphasis, you will constantly have sacrum and sacroiliac problems. Alternative modalities that I know of do not fix the pelvic symphasis. This is one of the reasons I invented TBT. You can find our TBT practitioners here. If a horse consistently buck, there’s It’s either misalignments, ulcers, or the saddle doesn’t fit. Horses buck because they’re either in pain or scared.

Renee (00:03:36.21)
If you’ve gotten them over the scared part and they’re still bucking, there’s discomfort somewhere. It’s just a question of finding it. Chiropractic care can help with misalignments. For the saddle fit, if you don’t have a saddle fitter available, you can indirectly check for saddle fit by seeing if your horse bucked when ridden in a bear bag pad. If they’re perfectly fine being ridden bear bag, then it’s a saddle fit problem. Bucking is a perfect example of why you should just ask your horse. There are lots of possible causes which you can chase around trying to figure out. Instead, you can ask your horse energetically just using positive and negative energy flow. Our energy fields and the horse’s energy field interact, and you can get information from them. You can learn how to ask your horse, yes and no questions in my course, What does my horse want? A girthy horse means either the saddle doesn’t fit or they have ulcers. A girthy or cinchy horse makes terrible faces, stomps their feet, moves away, and even tries to bite you when being girthed up. Either the saddle doesn’t fit, so it hurts when the girth is tightened, or they hurt because of the ulcer point under the girth.

Renee (00:04:45.22)
In acupuncture, some points correlate to certain internal problems. When your horse’s ulcer point is sore, they’ll react during girthing. People try many things to help girthiness, such as different shaped girths and and walking the horse during girthing and girthing extremely slowly. These are so nice, but you really need to find the cause and fix that. Again, you could ask your horse energetically, or you could also try TBT ulcer resolve to make sure the ulcers aren’t the problem. But I recommend first watching this video about horse ulcers, which shows the causes, prevention, and how to cure them forever. Neck and head indicators. If the neck won’t bend well in one direction, It’s often a lumbar back issue. First, of course, the neck itself can be misaligned, but the direct compensation for the neck is the lumbar, and the direct compensation for the lumbar is the neck. Sometimes you can work for days trying to help the neck, but the primary problem is actually the lumbar. This means the neck can be helped but won’t be 100% until the lumbar problem is fixed. If the horse doesn’t want his head touched, that means the atlas and occiput is misaligned.

Renee (00:06:00.00)
Misaligned. People often believe head shyness is due to previous trauma, and that may be true, but that previous trauma can misalign the skull and its attachment to the neck. Quite literally, the head is not on straight. Chiropractic care can align the atlas, but most will not be able to correct occiput misalignment. This is another reason I created TBT. Very soon, I’ll share a video explaining head shy horse issues. Please subscribe if you don’t want to miss it. Hook and limb signals. Hook stress lines mean laminitis. Horizontal lines in the hoof wall always indicate metabolic stress. If your horse has these lines, it may be subclinical laminitis. Studies have shown horses can have subclinical laminitis for up to two years before you see any lameness. The only hint is these hoof stress lines. Now, there are several reasons for stress lines. The first thing I would do is make sure your horse has 24/7 access to hay. Studies show microorganisms in the gut start dying after only 4 hours without hay, and it takes 18 hours to bring them back up to normal. Constant microorganism, die off and rebuild, and die off and rebuild, is a metabolic stress.

Renee (00:07:15.18)
They need access to hay 24/7. If your horse is holding a leg up to eat, it means ulcers. One time, a client pointed to her horse eating hay in the stall, and she said, Isn’t it so cute how he holds up his leg to eat? I had to tell her, No, it is not cute. It’s ulcers. There’s over 55 signs of ulcers in horses. You can check out my video mentioned previously for more information. Or if you prefer to read, I have a PDF download which explains all about ulcers as well as care plans for each type of situation. These secret signs are not taught in vet school. I learned them after all my years treating horses. I have a long list of 50 more horse secrets that you can download in the link in the description for free. Digestive and gut-related signs. Teeth grinding means significant discomfort. It does not just mean significant annoyance. Most of the time, that discomfort is ulcers. Eating wood or mud means a mineral deficiency. In the wild, horses naturally bark and weeds, and sometimes mud, to get what their body needs. But if they’re chewing your fence down, they’re looking for a mineral that is close to what’s in the wood, and they’re not getting it, so they keep chewing.

Renee (00:08:26.12)
Also, if they’re licking on metal bars, they also may be are looking for a mineral. To fix this, just offer free choice minerals and loose salt. Ideally, you want to offer each mineral separately and how they occur in nature. But you can start with a mineral mix and see how that works. A bloated belly means microbes in the gut are off balance. A bloated belly means too much gas. That means your horse has too much of gas-producing microorganisms. To fix this, just feed grass haze and no grains. If you do that, the microorganisms will rebalance. Chronic Tolec means the microbes are off balance and the food isn’t traveling correctly through the gut. To fix this, again, feed just grass haze, no rye, no alfalfa, no clover, and make sure the horse has 24/7 access to the hay. This will keep the intestine moving constantly. If it moves constantly, then it can’t get clogged up. When you stop the microorganism die-off cycle that is caused by feeding grains and not having 24/7 access to hay, you’ll have perfect microorganisms and no colic. There are a lot of common horse feeds that can harm your horse’s gut health.

Renee (00:09:37.10)
You can learn more about them in this video. Skin, Sweat, and Coat Indicators. Apache area of non-sweat. It means there’s a nerve problem. Not sweating at all is inhydrosis, and we have a separate video for that. If your horse has a curious spot where they do not sweat, it means the nerves are not asking those muscles to work, so they don’t sweat. The as always, is to find out why aren’t the nerves being effective in that area. This is true even when you have dry spots under the saddle. With poor saddle fit, the horse will know that using muscles in certain areas will hurt, so he doesn’t use them. That’s the dry spots. This may be fixed by correcting the saddle fit, but you also might need some alignment work. Chiropractic care can also help non-sweating spots. Also acupuncture, microcurrent or red light therapy. Tbt, of course, fixes this and also finds This is the root cause of the issue. An itchy horse usually means a liver issue. The skin is actually a secondary filtering organ. This means when the liver is overloaded, it will send toxins and chemicals, heavy metals and such, out through the skin, and that causes itching.

Renee (00:10:46.18)
You can help itching with any herbal liver support product. I recommend TBT liver revival, but once the liver is helped, if you still have itching, TBT skin revival will help the skin rejuvenate. How to cure them forever. Every sign your horse shows is a message. Pain, stiffness, or unusual behavior is the horse telling you something is off. Trading symptoms alone never fixes the root cause. But with the right tools, you can help your horse heal at the source, restore balance, and prevent future problems. That’s exactly why I created the Tucker biokinetic technique. Tbt is an energy technique where we use energy fields to find the root of the problem and fix it there. With TBT, you can fix anything given enough time. If you want to take your horse’s health into your own hands and truly understand what their body is telling you, check the link below. No bad experience is needed, just an open mind and love for your horse. Some of my students are even using TBT as a way of leaving corporate life and helping thousands of horses. Come join us. Thank you for watching, and I’ll see you next time.

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