New scheme to help combat saddle problems

The Saddle Research Trust has launched a novel referral system to assist riders tackle saddle-related problems.

The scheme, which volition live on highlighted at the Saddle Research Trust International Conference inward Cambridge, England, this November, gives riders access to the expertise together with advice of a world-leading control at a manageable cost.

Riders oft relate saddle-fitting problems together with equine dorsum hurting to loss of performance. Recent studies require maintain shown that horses amongst saddle sideslip syndrome were to a greater extent than than l times probable to live on lame or require maintain gait abnormalities; that 46 per centum of horses were lame or had gait abnormalities; together with that 43 per centum of saddles were ill-fitting.

However, lameness tin ship away oft live on hard to recognise which tin ship away Pb to potential welfare problems for the Equus caballus together with tin ship away require maintain implications for the passenger equally well.

A farther study has identified a clear link betwixt ill-fitting saddles together with dorsum hurting inward the rider.

The trust received to a greater extent than or less 2 requests every calendar week for advice on saddle-related issues, its founder, Anne Bondi said.

“Many Equus caballus owners study that they experience trapped inward a seemingly unending cycle of  veterinary/musculoskeletal/saddle-fit assessments without e'er determining the underlying displace of the problem.

“The lack of a definitive diagnosis tin ship away live on expensive precisely close importantly has the potential to termination inward a permanently damaged horse.”

The novel referral scheme, exclusive to trust members together with friends, aims to assist owners resolve their saddle-related problems.

Potential cases tin ship away live on submitted to the trust for an initial assessment together with if deemed suitable volition live on passed, amongst the permission of the owner’s green vet, to the trust’s veterinarian adviser, Dr Sue Dyson, at Britain’s Animal Health Trust inward Newmarket for a total assessment at a fixed toll of £335 plus VAT.

Dyson is a world-renowned skilful inward equine orthopaedics, amongst a detail involvement inward lameness together with pitiable surgery inward sports horses. She is a British Horse Society Instructor, who has trained horses together with competed to advanced ambit eventing, Grade Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 showjumping, together with medium ambit dressage.

Dyson has the additional payoff of a existent rider’s perspective.

She volition acquit an independent together with thorough review of the past times history plus an attempt of the horse, saddle together with passenger interaction, including physical together with visual evaluations too equally in-hand, ridden together with saddle stand upward for assessments.

A written study volition together with hence live on provided for the possessor together with their associated professional person practitioners.

Dyson said the trust hads taken a valuable pace frontwards inward raising standards of welfare together with do inward the manufacture amongst this of import referral system together with she was pleased to back upward it.

The trust international conference volition live on held inward Cambridge on Nov 29 at Anglia Ruskin University. The conference is supported past times World Horse Welfare together with is approved past times the British Equine Veterinary Association. Advance tickets are £100 or £150 on the door. Email research@saddleresearchtrust.com or telephone 07775 912202 to reserve a place. For to a greater extent than information, together with to meet the programme, see www.saddleresearchtrust.com.

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