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Biomechanical sessions available: Rider Biomechanics - A 360 Approach; Biomechanics-Based Coaching; Equine Gait Analysis; Rider Pilates
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Equine Laterality and its Effect on Equine health and Performance, from a Biomechanical Perspective Do horses turn one way easier than the other? When grazing, do horses have a preference to systematically protract one forelimb limb in advance of the other? What effect does this have on the locomotor system? Over the past decade, quantifying and understanding laterality has become the focus on many research groups. This 2-hour session will discuss laterality and its effect on equine health and performance. This course will present findings from laterality-based studies with specially attention being given to how laterality can influence the locomotor apparatus of the horse:
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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