Stamina and Energy - to increase Regular planned exercise results in increased speed and the ability to cover increased distances without undue fatigue. It is important to address exercise at the same time as treating the appropriate points. Stress Horses, like people, need to be repeatedly assured in order to put them at their ease and get a reliable performance from them. In this way, the more excited animal can be contained. Irritation and anger produces the reverse result.
Symptoms are pain on urination and discoloured, even blood-stained, urine.
It begins on and behind the withers and is the region where the saddle is placed. Its underlying skeleton is the last 10 thoracic vertebrae. It extends forward, half way round to the withers. Like the rest of the spine, it is heavily clothed with muscle save for the precise mid-line. The spine throughout the back is horizontal although the back itself, in profile, is concave.