Is Your Horse Sore in These Very Common Areas??

Many performance horses work hard for a living! And since horses don't have the ability to verbally voice their complaints, it is 100% up to us as owners, riders, and trainers to make sure they are truly comfortable in their jobs. While an obvious lameness is usually fairly easy to see, it becomes a whole lot more tricky when the horse isn't outright lame, yet is NQR, or "not quite right."

Some of the more common areas of chronic soreness that I find in horses is in the Lumbar back, the Sacroiliac joint, and the Lumbosacral junction, which connects the two - as shown in the illustration below: