Muscle Adhesions???

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Muscle Adhesions???
Topic Started: Apr 10 2009, 06:15 PM (82 Views)
Ibex	Apr 10 2009, 06:15 PM Post #1
Off visiting Candy Cave, be right back. Posts: 1,182 Group: Members Member #1,160 Joined: June 22, 2007	Had my usual chiro out to see Bria as a follow-up to a different chiro working on her about 6 weeks ago. My usual chiro is also a vet and FEI endurance rider, so she's really great at finding niggly performance issues. She found a clump of muscle adhesions, a few inches behind the saddle, on the side that Bria has always been sensitive about. Same side that the other chiro had found a really uneven pelvis and a rib out of whack. The adhesion is in a really odd spot - it would be under the panel of my saddle if it were about 5" further forward. Like the other chiro, she thought it was really old and probably only came to light when Bria started working more regularly. It's not a big deal, and pretty easy to treat, but the chiro had only ever seen it in this spot once before - on my trainer's horse. He'd arrived from Holland with it, and it took YEARS to find the root of his issues. Once they figured it out and treated it, he's improved leaps and bounds (ok, so there are fewer leaps and bounds, but you get the idea ) Two horses, arriving from different parts of the world, same weird issue in the exact same spot. Has anyone else ever seen this?? Trainer's horse is SUPER sensitive/worried (he makes my worry-wart look easy going); could it be from holding tension in their backs? Edited by Ibex, Apr 10 2009, 06:16 PM.



Addison	Aug 16 2009, 06:31 AM Post #2
Schooling Posts: 30 Group: Members Member #816 Joined: February 23, 2007	I know this thread is rather old but I thought I might offer a reply anyway. Adhesions are formed after some sort of trauma or surgrey where the scar tissue that is formed during healing phase, adheres to nearby structures and creates some sort of restriction of movement. A torn muscle could account for this type of problem. I would have gotten a second opinion as it sounds like an uncommon problem.



Ibex	Aug 16 2009, 07:37 AM Post #3
Off visiting Candy Cave, be right back. Posts: 1,182 Group: Members Member #1,160 Joined: June 22, 2007	Just saw this! The chiro/vet who found the problem isn't my usual vet as she lives about 3hrs away and comes down to do chiro work once a month, so we had my usual awesome vet come out to look. He found the spot, had a slight WTF moment since it was like my trainer's horse, and then treated her back with a version of mesotherapy he's been successful with on a lot of horses (essentially small amounts of a cocktail injected in tracks along her back just under the skin as opposed to a single deep injection to break up the clump). It seems to have done the job nicely! We've also since figured out when/wear she tore the muscle, so it all makes sense... apparently before I moved barns she "slipped in the aisle" during turnout, which at that barn is code for freaked out/fell down... they didn't see fit to mention it at the time... Edited by Ibex, Aug 16 2009, 07:39 AM.



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