I just recorded a podcast that I think you’re really going to want to hear – especially if you know anyone dealing with a horse diagnosed with juvenile arthritis.

Here’s the deal…

I got an email from someone whose rescued horse was told he’d never be ridden. The vet said it was just a matter of waiting for the joints to “fuse” and that was that.

But here’s what I discovered when I looked at this case…

In this podcast, I walk you through exactly what’s REALLY going on with juvenile arthritis (spoiler: it’s not what you think), and more importantly – what can actually be done about it.

I talk about:

• The difference between what X-rays show and what’s actually happening inside the joint
• Why the “wait for fusion” approach might not be your only option
• The surprising organ that’s behind most arthritis issues (hint: it’s not the joints themselves)
• How I approach these cases using the Tucker BioKinetic Technique

This isn’t some complicated medical lecture. I keep it simple and straightforward, just like we’re having a conversation.

Summary:

Summary by AI:

Dr. Renee Tucker explains equine juvenile arthritis from a Tucker Biokinetic Technique (TBT) perspective. Rather than viewing juvenile arthritis as an inevitable, untreatable joint problem that must “fuse,” TBT looks at the whole horse to find the root cause. Renee argues that arthritis—juvenile or otherwise—is primarily linked to poor liver function, not just joint damage. A compromised liver fails to produce the nutrients needed for healthy ligaments, leading to joint instability, reduced joint space, irritation, and compensatory lameness.

A TBT practitioner first gathers the horse’s history, performs a full-body assessment, aligns the four skeletal “pillars” (sternum, pelvic symphysis, sacrum, and atlas), and then uses the horse’s energy field to confirm the diagnosis and guide treatment. In cases of juvenile arthritis, the practitioner is directed to treat the liver. Once liver health is corrected energetically, the arthritis no longer tests as present. Supplements, such as a liver-support formula, may be recommended to support healing. Renee emphasizes fixing the underlying cause rather than waiting for painful joint fusion.

Transcription:

Renee (00:00:01.21)
Hey, guys. Dr. Renee Tucker here. Today, I wanted to talk to you just briefly about equine juvenile arthritis in horses, obviously, and how it would be approach from a TBT or Tucker biokinetic technique perspective. So if you were the TBT practitioner. Okay, so the reason that I’m doing this is that I got an email from someone requesting some help for this. And if you want some help with your horse, feel free to email me at tuckerbiokinetic. Com. It’s support@tuckerbiokinetic. Com. Sorry, this is my first time, and I’m already screwing this up. Okay, here’s the email I got, and I’m going to be reading and explaining as best I can for my audio listeners. This is from Molly. Hi, Renee. I rescued my horse, Milagro, when he was 2. 5 years old. I noticed what seemed like a subtle weakness in his right hind that no one else could see. It progressed to a level three to four lameness in his right Hawk in his fourth year. He had a bone scan and was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis. This was explained as an infection or traumatic event that occurred in his first months of life that have put him on an inevitable path of lameness, followed by the painful process of joint fusion.

Renee (00:01:24.29)
He has never been ridden. He lives in a pasture with his buddies and does light groundwork training while we wait for the magical fusion to take place in the next year or so. After hearing your podcast, I’m no longer convinced that this is the cut and dry prognosis the vet made it out to be. I have been concerned that Malagro might be damaging other parts of his body due to compensations to relieve the painful hog. What further steps could I take to help my boy? I’d be very grateful for your advice. I already emailed Molly, but I thought I’d share with you guys a few things about the arthritis and approaching it from a TBT perspective. First of all, you may have already seen my video on arthritis, which is… I’ll put that link in the description, okay? That explains how regular arthritis is really a liver problem and potentially an alignment problem. I’ll get back to that a little bit more in a second. So on that note, here is an X-ray of a normal Hawk. Now, I got this off Google, okay? So you can just Google it and take a look at a normal Hawk X-ray.

Renee (00:02:38.25)
The white part is the part that is the bones. And then this black in between the bones, this black horizontal line, this is the line in between the joints called the joint space. Then if you look closely at this… Sorry, I don’t… Wait, I do not want to zoom in. All right, if you look closely, this line currently on a normal Hawk is just a line, and it’s just in between the bones, and there’s no ridging or no extra bone growth. So this is normal. As compared to a Hawk that has some arthritis on it, again, from Google, there’s these black lines that are in between us, the joint spaces in the black. But then on the edges of the joint, there is this what we would call a lip, where the bone on the bottom goes up and over the joint space. Now, it’s not connected. It’s just growing extra. Little extra bits here and there, right on the edges, extra bits of bone around the joint spaces. Now, as you heard from the email that she sent me, and what that say is, Oh, it’s all going to fuse together. Well, it doesn’t really.

Renee (00:03:57.15)
It just, when they found out after they actually did some necropses, which is an autopsy on a horse, then it looks on the external X-ray that there are no more black spaces. However, X-rays are two-dimensional. What they found when they opened up the dead horse to look at the joints, that it only looked fused on the outside like it is here. And what that’s not only see this fusion or they can’t see any more black space, they also can’t get a needle in here to do a joint injection because right where there should be a gap or where the joint space is, there is a block of the extra growth of bone or arthritis. Okay, so arthritis happens. That’s what I’m showing right here. It’s this extra bone growth on the edges of the joint spaces. Joints never really fuse. They appear They’re to fuse externally. They do not fuse internally. How much that helps or doesn’t help the horse is a very individual thing. In my opinion, that should not be the goal. I think you should fix the problem. All right, then. Okay, we got a normal Hawk, and then we looked at this arthritis Hawk.

Renee (00:05:25.01)
Now, if you were a person who was a TBT practitioner, you might get a horse. This is just a random horse. This is not her horse, Malegro. This is random on my phone. I have a lot of horse pictures. Okay. So you would go to the horse and the person will tell you, Juvenile and you’d be like, Oh, my gosh, I don’t know. That sounds scary. Maybe, of course, if you’re actually a TBT practitioner, you would have watched a lot of videos, so you know, but let’s just pretend you don’t know or you don’t remember because there are a lot of videos. Of course, You can always email me. If you’re a TBT student and you don’t know, or you just want confirmation that you’re on the right path, email me. Okay. So you’re there. Now, what does a TBT practitioner do? One, they get the history of the horse. Like we’re doing now, we’ve got all this history we got from the email. Because history gives you clues. Why do we need clues? It’s because what I always like to say is by the time we humans can see or feel anything wrong with the horse, the horse has used up all the compensations, and now we see or feel the compensations.

Renee (00:06:38.08)
So as a TBT practitioner, you’re trying to find the real problem. So we’ll get the history, and then we do the physical checkups. We do the physical checkups, head to toe to feet, every joint in the body. We see what’s working and what’s not working so well. Then we know what to fix. All right? You’re saying, wait a minute. This horse has juvenile arthritis. When are you going to get to So as a TBT practitioner, we look at the whole horse, okay? Just because everything relates to everything, it’s all connected. So we’ve got the history. We’ve done our physical checkups, and then we fix with TBT technique, the four pillars of the horse. That’s the sternum, the pelvic symphasis, the sacrum, and the atlas. So one more time with a little point of your thing, I’m pointing to the sternum of the horse, that’s the bottom of the belly or the thoracic area. And then the pelvic symphasis, bottom of the pelvis, the sacrum, top of the pelvis, and the atlas, which is the first vertebra in the neck. When we do those four pillars first, make sure those are straight, perfectly aligned, then that is the major foundations, or that’s why I call them pillars, of the skeletal system.

Renee (00:08:00.00)
System. So when you fix that, now a lot of the horse is able to feel that its base is correct. Then it even can line itself up just based on those four pillars to keep being fixed. Now, generally, you will then fix the rest of the horse, and there’s many different ways, and it’s an art of the order that you do things in. But let’s just pretend we fix the four pillars, and now all we have to do is this symptom of juvenile arthritis. Now, the first thing that one would do is say, Okay, no offense to all veterinarians, but whenever I hear something from the owner, You know what? There can be miscommunication, blah, blah, blah. So I will stand in this horse’s energy field, and I can ask yes and no questions. Now, you learn to do this on the what does my horse want prerequisite course. So with yes or no questions, I would ask horse’s energy field, which has all the information for the horse, I would say, Hey, horse, would you say it’s true that you have juvenile arthritis? And on Molly’s horse, I did get a yes. So that was true.

Renee (00:09:17.13)
If it wasn’t true, now we have a whole other problem, but we’re not going to do that today. All right. So let’s say I didn’t know anything about juvenile arthritis because I forgot, whatever. That’s okay. Why? You don’t have to know it all because the horse’s energy field knows it all. So I’d say, All right, horsey, could you please show me where precisely you would like me to treat or focus my treatment regarding the juvenile arthritis. Now, obviously, knowing how to do this is in the TBT University. But so that practitioner would then be drawn over to the horse’s liver. Okay? The liver looks like this. Well, it’s a liver diagram. It’s fairly large. And while this picture is showing the left side of the horse, it’s on the right side of the horse, primarily. And it’s about midway of the rib cage. So if I was at the horse, frankly, you could just put your hand on the middle of the horse, on the right side, and you’re on the liver. Not that you necessarily need to know that, but the point is that your TBT practitioner will be drawn to the liver. Then you check the liver health.

Renee (00:10:44.05)
All right? Again, This is energy work. So we’re looking for perfect liver health. And every organ, every part of the body has a frequency, you could call it. It’s also in the energy field. So we’re asking the energy field, Hey, how’s the liver frequency? What’s it supposed to be? And then we fix it using TBT. Then once the horse has a perfect liver frequency, if you will, we say, Okay, great. Now ask the horse again, Hello, horse. Now that your liver is fixed, would you say that you still have juvenile arthritis? And the answer will be no. You What are you talking about? Well, dude, let me explain a little bit more about juvenile arthritis. On the internet, the definition of juvenile arthritis is so much crap. Here’s what it says, Juvenile arthritis and orthosis refers to inflammation and degeneration within a joint affecting structures such as cartilage, the joint capsule, bones and ligaments in horses typically between one and four years old. And I call this crap or bull crap, because this is just saying that the course, his joint hurts. Whereas arthritis just means inflammation of a joint. True enough, historically, arthritis has always referred to bone.

Renee (00:12:23.23)
And then what happened? They decided to change the definition. And I find that annoying. They change definitions when they don’t know what’s going on and they want to be confusing. Okay, that’s my real thoughts on that. Okay, now let’s just set aside their definition. What’s really happening with arthritis and juvenile arthritis, as you would see in my other video, linked in the description, is the liver is not working right. The liver is supposed to make groceries for ligaments. Ligaments not only hold joints together, but keep joints from going apart and keep them from getting too squished. So when the liver is not making enough ligament stuff, there’s not enough strong ligaments, and the joints start squishing together. Squish together joints mean there’s less joint space, means there’s less joint fluid, means parts of the joints that aren’t supposed to touch like the cartilage they’re talking about, are touching or pretty close to it. So that’s irritating. The question is always, why are this horse, who’s what she said, two years old, going on four, now it’s It’s lame. And now you just have to wait around for it to fuse? Are you kidding me right now?

Renee (00:13:49.11)
No, it’s the liver. The liver is not working. If you have one joint and the liver is not working, that’s one thing. Juvenile arthritis means the liver is just Just doing so poorly that it’s not making hardly any liver components. And indeed, in Molly’s horse, all her joints were affected. You don’t just wait for the hox to fuse. Sometimes, traditional veterinarians annoy me. Just being real here. Because once again, we are trained to find the pain and fix the pain. And if we can’t fix the pain, well, wait till it fuses. Like, whatever. I like to find out why that’s happening and fix that. Okay, I hope this helps. So from a TBT practitioner standpoint, this is fairly straightforward. Ask the horse, Do you have arthritis? Yes. Fix the liver. Do you still have arthritis? No. There you go. Now, of course, you need some time for this to process. The liver is going to start making all those groceries the ligaments need right away that day after you fix it. Then needs some time to fill in the whole entire body. So what I like to do then is ask the horse’s energy field again.

Renee (00:15:08.15)
Hi, horse. Do you… Okay, always try to ask if it’s best because should or any wishy-washy terms make yes and no questions. Answers also wishy-washy, if that makes sense. So anyways, I would say, Is it best for you to have any supplements? And Amalia’s horse, I got a yes. So if I was there at her horse, I would go to her tag room and say, What do you got already? And I would check yes or no for each supplement. Say, Is this good for this horse right now? Maybe it’s not for now, but maybe later. But For right now, is it best for the horse to have this supplement? Yes or no, through all of them. It doesn’t take five minutes. Okay? Frankly, it will save you a lot of money if you know how to do that yourself. So for Molly’s horse, I got, yes, for a supplement would be best to help out during the processing of ligament fixing. She did not have any that would be good for her horse at the time already. What was best for her horse was the TBT liver revival. That helps the liver to heal itself up and obviously to make the ligament groceries.

Renee (00:16:22.19)
Now, some people might ask, Well, if the liver is so bad, why doesn’t that show up on bloodwork? My My vet would tell me about that. Well, the thing is liver health is different than liver function. The liver can be healthy enough so it appears normal on bloodwork, but it’s actually not functioning at 100% health. So that’s why it’s unlikely for there to be any liver bloodwork signs. There could be, but there usually is not until they’re older. Okay, I think that’s all I have for right now. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, and if you would like me to do one of these little things with your horse, feel free to send an email and picture to support@tuckerbiokinetic. Com. Thanks again. Bye-bye.

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