Have you heard that suspensory ligament “pulls” happen mainly from overuse?

Either you’re “riding too much, or doing too much for the horses level, or overdoing a specific movement.”

That’s wrong.

You need TWO items to be going wrong with your horse in order to have a suspensory pull:
A misaligned leg AND a problem with the liver

More about this on todays Horse Mysteries Solved podcast.

Links Mentioned:
Find TBT Practitioners here → www.WhereDoesMyHorseHurt.com/practitioners
TBT Liver Revival → https://www.tuckerbiokinetic.com/offers/tcENEw9b (only available in US at the moment)
Save Your Suspensory course → https://www.tuckerbiokinetic.com/Save-Your-Suspensory (How to physically align the front leg suspensory fulcrums)

Summary:
Summary by AI:

In this episode of “Horse Mystery Solved,” Dr. Renee Tucker discusses the causes of suspensory ligament issues in horses. She emphasizes that suspensory problems (which can be strains, pulls, or tears) typically arise from two main factors:

1. **Leg Alignment Issues:** The horse’s leg alignment must be correct to ensure the stay apparatus functions properly. This apparatus, which includes muscles, tendons, and ligaments, helps the horse stand and sleep without collapsing. Misalignment of key components, such as the shoulder, carpal bone, and sesamoids, can lead to suspensory ligament injuries. For the front leg, Dr. Tucker provides guidance on aligning these fulcrums and suggests her course for detailed instructions. For the hind leg, proper alignment is more complex, involving the pelvic symphysis and other structures. Dr. Tucker’s Tucker Biokinetic Technique (TBT) is recommended for addressing these issues.

2. **Liver Function:** The liver is crucial for producing components that strengthen ligaments. If the liver is overloaded with toxins, it may not produce these components adequately, weakening the ligaments. Dr. Tucker mentions a herbal product combined with TBT energy work to support liver function, which can aid in ligament repair.

Dr. Tucker shares anecdotes to illustrate these points and encourages consulting with a veterinarian for individualized care. She also highlights the importance of correcting both alignment and liver function for effective treatment of suspensory issues.

Transcription:

Reneee (00:00)
Hello, friends. Dr. Renee Tucker here. Good to see you guys. Welcome to today’s episode of Horse mystery solved. Today, we’ll be talking about suspensory ligaments, both front and hind, and the two things that you need to have going wrong with your horse to pull a suspensory. I’ll just tell you now, to pull a suspensory, what I mean by that is an umbrella term of pull strain, tear, sprain, anything you want to call it. Okay. So first of all, if you haven’t heard from me before, I am Dr. Renee Tucker, equine betonarian, holistic with over 30 years experience. Also the creator of the Tucker Biokinetic Technique, which is an energy work technique for healing. It’s awesome. Okay, back to suspensories. Oh, I don’t like to waste people’s time, so I will tell you I am not going to speak on treatments, traditional treatments for suspensory, are also rehab. There’s plenty of that out on the internet. If your horse is having a suspensory issue right this second, it would be ideal for you to actually talk to your veterinarian because your horse needs the individual attention to get you the right answers. However, this will be very helpful anyways.

Reneee (01:24)
You need two things going wrong with your horse in order to pull a suspensory, front leg or hind leg. Now, I’m not talking about the rare traumatic events. For example, if your horse is cantering through the field, so beautiful, and unfortunately, they step in a gopher hole and pull a suspensory. Those events are actually rare. I know several people who were suddenly surprised that the horse pulled a suspensory, and it seemed so sudden that they thought something had happened. One time, I was at a lady, and she said she had ridden her horse the day before and put the horse in the stall overnight and pulled the horse out in the morning, and he’s dead lame with a pulled suspensory. And there was some talk about maybe the horse got cast in the stall, but the horses don’t pull a suspensory to be dead lame when they’re cast. You’d have to get a shoe stuck or something, which the horse didn’t. There was a shoe, and that was fine. But then when she thought about it, she’s like, Oh, you know what? Actually, over the last few weeks, maybe a few months, the horse had trips occasionally.

Reneee (02:50)
And, Oh, that’s right. Maybe it was two months ago where he was a little off, just a little bit. So they gave him a couple of days off, and he was fine. So often there there are little tiny events happening before you actually see a full-blown suspensory pull, which goes to my point. There’s got to be two things wrong with your horse in order for a suspensory to happen. Let me just tell you those two things. One, you need the leg alignment to be incorrect, and two, you need something to be going wrong with your horse’s liver. I know, it sounds crazy, but I’m here to explain it all. Okay, so first of all, let’s talk about stay apparatus versus the suspensory ligament. Okay, the suspensory ligament, front and hind end, is part of the stay apparatus. The stay apparatus is amazing. It’s very complex. It’s got muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, connective tissue, all to stop the horse’s leg from folding when it doesn’t want to fold. That is, so the horse can sleep standing up. When it wants to stand up and sleep, all the horse has to do is contract the triceps muscle by the elbow area, and the whole stay apparatus just locks into position, and they can just stand there effortlessly.

Reneee (04:26)
Pretty sweet. I actually wish I could do that. That would be neat. So the suspensory ligament is part of that stay apparatus. And there’s also a stay apparatus in the hind leg, and it works very similarly. If any of the alignments involved in the stay apparatus are causing the stay apparatus not to work correctly, that’s when you have a suspensory pull. You could think of the suspensory as the canary in the coal mine, because by the time the suspensory gets pulled, it’s telling you all of the stay apparatus throughout the whole leg is just messed up. It’s misaligned or there’s other problems, but it is so messed up that it’s going to pull the suspensory first. Okay. I may say, Okay, that’s great. What can I do about that? Well, with the front-end suspensory, you can fix it physically because there’s basically three main fulcrums, as I call them, to the entire stay apparatus of the front leg. Those are the shoulder, the accessory carpal bone, and the sesamoids. All those bones literally act as fulcrums for the entire stay apparatus to make it work right. So when those three are correct, you won’t have a problem with your suspensory.

Reneee (05:54)
I will link below to my course on how to align the front end perfectly. Now, apologies, because I do not have a course for how to align the back end physically, primarily because it involves the pelvic synthesis of the horse. The pelvic synthesis is deep in there. It’s the center bottom of the pelvic canal, and that has got to be aligned for the hind end to be aligned correctly. That pelvic synthesis is like the foundation of a house. If the house is foundation is crooked, then it doesn’t matter what you do to the rest of the pelvis, like the hips, sacraliax, sacrum. It doesn’t matter at all. That pelvic synthesis has got to be aligned first. The only therapy that I am aware of that can do that, and quite easily, is TBT. That’s part of the reason that I developed it, is because I needed something to fix this. All right? So that will do that. And And along with the pelvic symphasus being the main thing, then for the suspensory in the hind, there’s also the lumbar, sacralia, sacrum, the stifle, and the hoch. So there’s about seven things. I probably missed one there.

Reneee (07:15)
But the whole hind end needs to be aligned. If it’s not aligned, it will impede the stay apparatus of the hind leg, and you’ll get those suspensory pulls. And people will blame it on you riding your horse too much or at too high a level for their health or age, or you’re doing the wrong movements. Maybe you’re doing too much lateral movements. I don’t know. Suspensory pulls often get blamed just from overuse. You used your horse too much as suspensory pulls. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I’m telling you, it’s just wrong. Sometimes you can rest the horse forever And it still doesn’t heal up. See, this is a clue. Let me tell you a little story. One time, I went to see this cute little Arab seven-year-old gelding. He’s a great horse, but I forgot his name. You know how you can picture stuff, but you just can’t quite remember. Anyways, this guy had a suspensory issue in the front leg, front right. He had been in a stall with a little run, about as big as a stall also. So essentially, he was free move in two stalls for a year and a half. It was just beyond my comprehension.

Reneee (08:37)
But every month, the veterinary would come out and they would trot the horse off and he would say, Oh, he’s still lame. Give him another month rest. And they’ve been doing this for a year and a half. It was really hard for me to keep a straight face because that’s too long. That’s definitely a problem. And I can’t even believe that a seven-year-old Arab was that calm, but he was. He was amazing. The point here is I aligned that front leg. I aligned the fulcrums, the three fulcrums, the shoulder, the accessory carpal bones, and the cessenoids. The whole leg was twisted and all those fulcrums were off. So all I did was align that leg, and then I was curious. So I said, Hey, I’m just curious to see how far we’ve gotten. Would you mind taking him outside and trotting him like you do for the vet? So she did. And the horse was sound. And I was not expecting that. I thought he’d be a little better, but I wasn’t. But he was totally sound. It was completely awesome. Essentially, it was great because it proved my theory at the time. You just have to have the stay apparatus working so the suspensory, which is part of it, can also be working.

Reneee (09:57)
Okay, so that was a cool story. And for the horse as well, who finally got to go out with his friends. So it was great. So we got to have a leg alignment for the suspensory. The second thing we have to have is the liver working. Say, What the heck? Listen, many of us are familiar with a liver being a filtering organ. It filters out chemicals and toxins and heavy metals. And that’s great. It keeps us all happy and healthy. But there’s this other that the liver also does, which is not often talked about. And that is it makes the components, not all, but some of the components for ligaments. Those components that the liver makes fully strengthen the ligaments, including the suspensory. So there are horses who’s not very misaligned at all. They may even be perfectly aligned in their legs and still a suspensory ligament. And I’m just scratching my head like, well, maybe it was trauma, but it wasn’t trauma. It’s the liver. What’s been happening is so many of our horses’ liver are overloaded with environmental toxins and what have you, that they just can’t make this stuff. So the ligaments are just not as strong as they should be.

Reneee (11:25)
And let me tell you this little thing. Okay, listen. I was trying to find a correct X-ray of a Hawk. Hawk has a lot of little bones in it. And when you look at an X-ray, you probably know, there’s the white on the X-ray, which is bone, and there’s the black on the X-ray, which is the space. So yes, I was in vet school 30 years ago, and we had all these cases, and our textbook shows normal, and there was a lot of black, a lot of joint space. And so I know what normal is. Guys, I tried to find a normal picture. I can’t find one. All the X-rays that are being posted, and there’s lots of them on the Internet, they’re all a bit small. I would say I would say 50 % smaller than they should be, and they’re being labeled as normal. So this has been going on for a while now. And anyways, I wanted to share that with you guys. So we have a lack of strength of ligaments due to liver issues, plus misalignment of the legs that’s primarily, most always, causing suspensory pulls. In addition, the Like a story I just told you, you can’t heal the suspensory properly until the liver gets fixed and the alignment is correct.

Reneee (12:54)
Okay? Hope that made sense. Now, you may say, Well, what can I do about the liver? Maybe you’re trying to heal your horse’s suspensory problem. Oh, that reminds me of a story. Here I go again. Okay, so I met this lady, and her horse was older, I think in the 20s at the time, her mare, and she was always in the stall, and also she had to run. And I was like, What do you mean always? She said, Well, listen. And I get this. Okay, she said, My horse had a suspensory injury. I it for a year. This lady was exceptionally accurate and took notes and all this stuff. So I believed her. Then she said, I rehabbed my horse. It all seemed to be well. The horse pulled the suspensory in the other front leg. So she rehabbed the horse again for a good six, nine months. That was a long time. And then she started working with the horse, and it pulled the original leg suspensory for the third time. Well, the third suspensory. And yes, she did it four times. She pulled the left suspensory, then the right suspensory, then the left suspensory, then the right one again.

Reneee (14:12)
So every time she rehabbed We’re talking years. So finally, she just gave up and put the horse in a stall with a run to live. Because every time she turned her out, she pulled something. It was just awful. So awful. That’s why I’m trying to fix this stuff, guys. Okay, Okay, so the gist of it is, yeah, the horse had the liver problem. I was so happy about that because I could fix that. So we fixed that, and then we aligned the legs, which, of course, at this point, were misaligned, not surprisingly, because of all the rehab and all the compensations that are going to happen from one leg to the other leg while one is lame. Yikes. Okay, so we fixed that horse, guys. Fixed that horse. It was great. And Can you believe it? She got to go outside and retire in a pasture with friends. It was so nice. All right. Spensory issues. Their misalignment and their liver problems. Aligning the horse. You can get a chiropractor to try to do it if they can do the leg bones. Not all chiropractors do that. And if they can do the pelvic symphysis, and not all chiropractors even try that.

Reneee (15:24)
And I am certified in chiropractic. Personally, I don’t think chiropractors can do it, although they may think so. Okay, you can totally get a TBT person. All right? I’ll link in the description to our TBT practitioners. You can become one yourself, of course. Meanwhile, your liver. I had not talked about this liver issue publicly before. I told my students, but I hate telling people, Hey, here’s a problem, but you can’t do anything about it. All right? So I have made a liver product. It’s a herbal product, but it’s actually an energy product. I put the TBT healing energy for the liver, and the delivery system is the herbs. I know that sounds a little crazy, but the thing is, crazy is only crazy because we don’t understand it yet. So if you choose to get this and try it, it’s a little tiny scoop. It’s a one gram scoop. And just think of it as, yeah, it’s a small amount of herbs, but It’s over a million quantum particles that will all be working together with your horse’s energy to fix the liver issue. So that will work for sure for your liver. You’ll definitely see results in your horse’s energy and your horse’s brightness.

Reneee (16:49)
I’m just saying you’ve got to have both things corrected for your suspensory issue to be totally fixed. It’s alignment plus liver. Okay, I hope that made sense. Let’s see. The only question we had was, how did that horse not go bonkers? I don’t know. I asked her if she had him on any be calm or anything. The only thing was she didn’t have him on any green. She had taken him off that. He was just on hay, but nothing else. I don’t know why. There are other horses in the barn. He could see them going in and out. I guess at a certain point, you just get used to it. It was crazy. Hey, Marta, thanks for the question. I will make a link in the description for the liver herbs to help out the ligaments. It’s not there yet. I’ll put it there. Thank you. Okay. Well, thanks you guys for listening. Thank you for being here. I like to make these short and sweet to the point so you guys can get your suspensory of the issues fixed. If you have any more questions or comments, please feel free to put them either in the YouTube chat comment area or feel free to email me.

Reneee (17:57)
The email should be in the description as well. And I’ll see you guys next time. Bye.

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