Reader question of the day:
“My big question when looking at a horse move or react during a session is always: “What am I looking at?” I have no problem picking out lameness or oddness in the movement, but what does that “twist” in the hock/holding the tail to one side/shortened protraction phase” mean…what is causing it?”
I love where this person’s head is at. Wanting to know the why.
I know that many people readers can see, or feel, very particular movements in the horse’s body.
Finding the deepest, primary why is what needs to happen. But we don’t figure that out by watching the horse.
Here’s what I mean:
For the horse in the original reader question, my short list of possible causes of observed symptoms:
This can make a person’s brain freeze up! So many options PLUS what do you do about every possible option?
The main idea I’d like to convey is this:
By the time we see or feel any symptoms, the horse has already used up all available compensations for the first, deepest, center-of-the-onion cause.
Therefore, the symptoms we CAN see or feel are the compensations beginning to fail.
So, the question we want to ask is NOT about the symptoms we can see, but rather what is the originating, primary cause.
In our example, let’s say the cause of the observed symptoms (twisting hock, tail to side, shortened stride) is simple and it’s all misalignment. Horses do fall down and get misaligned.
Sometimes it is that easy. You re-align the hock, stifle, pelvic symphysis, etc. and the horse is perfect forever.
Sometimes it is not that easy.
The misalignments may be the cause of the observed symptoms, but …
… the cause of the misalignments may be a giant tumor in the pelvis.
Then what’s the cause of the tumor?
Let’s say it’s a reaction to a cluster of heavy metals in the area.
Then what’s the cause of the body not getting rid of these heavy metals? (the liver should be doing this)
Then what’s wrong with the liver?
Blood flow maybe?
Then why is the blood flow incorrect?
The heart?
What’s wrong with the heart? And why?
This should be making you stressed out and anxious! I’m stressed out just writing it. Omg so many possibilities.
And this is why there’s TBT (Tucker BioKinetic Technique).
Having an awareness of all these possibilities, and wanting to know what primary cause should be addressed first….that’s why I created TBT.
(For new readers, TBT is an energy technique that aligns everything in the body that is supposed to be there. While helping eliminate everything that is not supposed to be there).
My point is there’s so many possibilities that the only way to know for sure is to energetically ask the horse. The horse’s body (and the energy field) know what is going on. And they need help.
When TBT practitioners work on a horse, we first catalogue the symptoms with history and physical Checkups. But then we start with the primary problems.
When you fix the primary problems, all those compensations melt away.
It’s quite beautiful when you watch it happen.
If you’d like a TBT practitioner to help your horse, please check www.WhereDoesMyHorseHurt.com/practitioners.
