RE: Re: Sore Back

["Malcolm Booth" <malcolm@malcolmbooth.com>]

Michel Kaplan can be reached through Renaissance Farms on Milk Barn Road in
Healdsburg, CA

Malcolm Booth

-----Original Message-----
From: Bette Lamore [mailto:woa@stormnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:28 AM
To: Kathy Mayeda
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net; agiven@coair.com
Subject: RC: Re: Sore Back


Hi Kathy
Hoping someone on line could tell me! He used to be out of Petaluma CA
and then he went to the Olympics and met a French amour and was over
there for a while. Last I heard he was back in the states but I have no
idea where. I know he said he worked with Linda Tellington-Jones;
perhaps Bobby knows?
At one Olympic event, he was working with 5 different countries! Don't
know how he kept from having a conflict of interest, specially since one
of them was the French team :-) I know he has some practitioners around
santa Ynez (I only work on my own horses). Perhaps someone down there
knows one of them-- Sylvia??
Bette

> Kathy Mayeda wrote:
>
> Bette – please tell us how to get hold of Michel Kaplan clinic
> organizers!
>
> Yes, you are right about the desensitization.
>
> K.
>
>           -----Original Message-----
>           From:   Bette Lamore [mailto:woa@stormnet.com]
>           Sent:   Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:20 AM
>           To:     Kathy Mayeda
>           Cc:     ridecamp@endurance.net; agiven@coair.com
>           Subject:        Re: RC:  Re: Sore Back
>
>           Hi Kathy
>           The problem with the  method of running your fingers down
>           their backs to
>           test for pain is this: if the horse has been in pain for
>           some period of
>           time, he will frequently "block" the pain--- meaning he has
>           no feeling
>           to the touch yet is still has a back problem. There are
>           pressure points
>           by the hip which the Chinese call "The Gates of Heaven"
>           which will
>           unblock the nervous system of the horse and then you can
>           test for
>           soreness. Michel Kaplan (used by many different Olympic
>           teams) teaches a
>           course on his neurokinesiology, which I took. It has saved
>           my horses
>           from much unnecessary pain. If he offers a clinic in your
>           area, I'd go.
>           His techniques have a lot in common with the TTouch method
>           which, if I
>           remember, you are very familiar with. Both are incredibly
>           helpful.
>           Bette
>           > Kathy Mayeda wrote:
>           >
>           > There’s an excellent book out called “Understanding the
>           Horses Back”
>           > by Sarah Wyche. It lists a whole checklist of things to go
>           through in
>           > trouble shooting back problems.  Believe me, I know about
>           what you’re
>           > going through – 6 saddles later I licked the major issue
>           by getting a
>           > ReactorPanel saddle, but all the other things need to be
>           addressed as
>           > well – like good dentistry, shoeing and proper
>           riding/exercise.
>           >
>           > Len Brown of Orthoflex has a video out on palpating the
>           horses back.
>           > It’s a little homegrown type of video, but it shows step
>           by step how
>           > to pinpoint back soreness.
>           >
>           > If you run your fingers with medium pressure on either
>           side of the
>           > spine and your horse dips his back dramatically at any
>           specific point
>           > – yes there is soreness.  If you continue to palpate,
>           sometimes he’ll
>           > get a little desensitized and not dip his back at the
>           touch.
>           >
>           > Good luck!
>           >
>           > K.
>           >
>           >
>
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