Gentle Rocking of Spinal Column | Jim Masterson
Health/Stable Management
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2m 59s
Jim finishes with gently rocking the horse’s spinal column to try to generate movement from the tail to the poll. The horse shows good movement throughout his entire body. He does warn that horses can sometimes be a little sore after being worked on because their nervous system is firing and muscle may have been used in different ways.
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