re: shoulder asymmetry

[mmmcrae@juno.com (Marie M McRae)]

>            Look at your horses shoulders, one side is smaller.
>            The horses smaller shoulder cannot build under
>            the saddles pressure.
>
>>While this assymmetry is true in some horses - as endurance riders we
should
>>work on strengthening the weaker side of the horse rather than padding
it and
>>ignoring it!

  IME the bulgey shoulder is usually caused by an off balance rider.  The
shoulder gets a bulge because the muscles on that side are doing more of
the work of carrying the load.  To change it you must  rebalance the load
in one way or another.  Yes, certainly  you look at the joint angles
below it and the condition of the saddle being used and make the possible
and/or necessary changes, but mostly you come back to working with the
rider, not the saddle pad and not necessarily the horse.

Marie McRae

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