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Michel Kaplan, the inventor of the neurokinesiological release and 
consultant to 5 Olympic teams (and at the same event!) told me that it 
could be the result of a simple thing as fascia (Sp??) which has built 
up from stress of injury--- could even be from imbalanced shoeing or 
trimming over time. He would look at each horse from behind and almost 
always, if there was a problem, the shoulders would be asymmetrical and 
one hip would rise higher than the other. After his treatments (kind of 
acupressure-looking with deep message along trigger points) the horse 
would move better and over time the asymmetry would disappear--- at 
lease they did in my horses that he worked on.
I would find a good acupressurist or acupuncturist or someone who is a 
Kaplan trainee and have them work with the horse. Your horse might need 
different farrier care as well.
Just a suggestion
Bette

Vallonelee@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Could a unilateral upright hoof or even clubfoot confirmation cause 
> this?  Or would it be directly proprionate to how the horse used his 
> body with that type of deviation.  Just curious - does anyone know?
>  
> Lee
> ".......and God sought to bestow upon man a supreme mark of his 
> blessing. God created the horse. The horse could run faster than the 
> deer, jump higher than the goat, and endure longer than the wolf. Man, 
> being encompassed by elements that sought to destroy him, would have 
> been a slave, had the horse not made him king."


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