Forthcoming new book:
“Understand Your Riding Horse”

Veterinarian Rikke Schultz is currently writing on a new book “Understand Your Riding Horse”, which deals with the problems of the jumping and dressage horse seen from a holistic perspective.

The book came out in Danish on 27. November 2004.

“Understand Your Riding Horse” contains chapters on:

• lameness
  
• hoof problems
  
• back pains
  
• communication
  
• rider problems
  
• saddles
  
• bits and auxiliary reins
  
• training
  
• examination and treatment methods
  
• acupuncture and chiropractic
  

and it deals with the following issues among others:

• Why can’t the horse back-up on a straight line?
  
• Why does he walk on two tracks?
  
• Why does he always land on the left lead canter after a jump?
  
• What happens when the horse is afraid of the rider?
  
• Why can it be damaging to use side-reins or draw-reins?
  
• How do we tell when the saddle fits correctly?
  
• How does the bit work?
  
• What is the hyoid bone?
  
• It is important how the horse is being groomed?
  
• Can the blanket affect the horse’s pattern of movement?
  
• Is it beneficial for the dressage horse to be ridden on the riding ground only.
  
• How does the horse’s nervous system function?
  
• Why does the horse refuse to be shod?
  
• Why does he counter canter?
  
• What is the effect on the horse, if the rider has back problems?
  
• Why does the saddle become lopsided?
  
• What are acupuncture and chiropractic?
  
• Which exercises of the TTEAM method are beneficial in training.
  
• Which TTEAM exercises should be used for relieving muscle pain?
  
• Can you do something for your horse yourself?
  
• How does the veterinarian examine the horse?
  
• How can he be treated for limb problems?
  
• What can be done about a tilted pelvis?
  
  

In a list of problems in the back of the book where you can find the problem and see which are the most common causes. For example; the horse refuses to back-up – please look under pain in the sacrum, pain in the hind legs, rider problems, neck pain.

UNDERSTAND YOUR ICELANDIC HORSE will be published in English and German in the spring 2004.