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Finding your line: Identifying & Treating Postural Patterns and Imbalances in the Rider to Improve Awareness and Enhance Neutral Alignment. We live and ride in the field of gravity. Our inherent structural asymmetries, movement practices and habits all influence our posture. Associated postural compensations can be a source of altered alignment that can affect movement. Over time, our altered alignment becomes the ‘new neutral’ and we are not even aware that we are dis-oriented in space. In riding, the lack of postural awareness and asymmetry can impact the horse/rider relationship. Ultimately, malalignment can create weakness, influence movement strategies, riding biomechanics and cause degeneration in the spine and joints.
Centaur Biomechanics was found in 2006 by Dr. Russell MacKechnie-Guire who graduated from Warwickshire College in 2006 with a BSc (Hons) in Equine and Human Sports Science and now holds a PhD in Equine Biomechanics graduating from the Royal Veterinary College in 2019. Russell’s thesis was titled ‘The Relationship between Saddle and Rider Kinematics, Equine Locomotion, and Thoracolumbar Pressures in Sports Horses’.
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