Equine Athlete Physio

13/06/2024

10/05/2024

08/11/2023

💪🏼 Muscle Asymmetry 💪🏼💪🏼

Muscle imbalance may occur for many reasons such as injury, presence of pain, postural compensation or response to a loading (or deloading) stimulus.

These imbalances can effect not only the strength, but power, endurance, as well as co-ordination and balance.

Have you ever stood from afar and observed your horses shape and symmetry? You might be surprised in what you find!

Your physio can assist in identifying imbalances and areas of strength deficit, and guide you in achieving better balance and symmetry for both you and your horse.

08/08/2023

This weeks availability! A few spots left later in the week so jump on these for any lurking injuries, performance issues or a preventative screen, we are here to help 🐴👋🏼

01/08/2023

EAP is back! After a much needed and lovely break, our physio is back servicing all areas of the Sunshine Coast Region on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. DM us, call email or text to book your consult, Happy Tuesday 🐴☺️

05/06/2023

Our Physiotherapist Gracie, is taking a well earned holiday break overseas. Please don’t hesitate to leave any enquires with your contact number, and we will get back to you once we are back in the office from July 4th 2023. Thank you for your patience 💫

19/05/2023

Good luck to all of our lovely clients who are competing this weekend 💪🏼

19/04/2023

💥Run, don’t walk! 💥

Together with and .nutrition we are super excited to announce our first Horse and Rider Super Clinic!!

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A unique and amazing opportunity to really hone your equestrian performance from a variety of angles. The package involves sessions with each of our highly qualified, accredited Dieticians, Exercise Physiologists and Physiotherapists to help set you up for success - all in one spot! Bonus extras such as education sessions and cooking class included within the day 🌟

Limited appointments available, get in touch to book your spot!

23/03/2023

We have a lot of new followers recently and thought we had better re-introduce ourselves!

This is Gracie, our Principal Physiotherapist.

Gracie began riding at a young age in Tasmania, and enjoys all of the challenges that come with equestrian sport. While focussing mostly on dressage and eventing disciplines, Gracie enjoys riding in all aspects, having experience in show jumping, stock mustering, showing, games and general riding around her family’s farm. This picture was taken back in 2010 at Melbourne 3DE where Gracie competed in the Junior 1*. Her other accomplishments in her riding career include state and national young rider squads, medium training advanced level dressage, 1* state eventing champion, and placing 4th in the National Pony Club Eventing Championships.

Gracie finds biomechanics and sport specific conditioning particularly interesting within equestrian sports. Whilst Gracie doesn’t compete or ride much these days, she loves providing physiotherapy services to help horse rider combinations become the best athletes they can be.

17/03/2023

It’s FriYay! 👏🏽👏🏽

Challenge for the weekend: take a deep breath, take a moment of calm in the busy life around to you really observe, feel, understand what your horse is feeling, how are they moving, and what are their behaviours telling you? We know, It’s easy to get wrapped up in training, pressure during a lesson, and rushing off to work after riding. Imagine driving a car with the radio turned off, it’s much easier to hear if your car is needing some TLC😉

02/02/2023

Did you know? Physiotherapy can help rehabilitate superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) injury.

SDFT in the equine athlete is an energy storing tendon that is highly susceptible to injury during activities such as galloping, jumping or periods of increased stance duration such as in high level dressage movements I.e passage or pirouettes.

Due to a number of factors, biomechanical and and biothermal effects of strain on the tendon can contribute to accumulation of micro damage at a rate that overwhelms the cells capacity to repair, resulting in poor tendon function, and therefore poor performance, eventually leading to pain and lameness (O’Brien, Marr and Thorpe, 2020).

Wondering how can physiotherapy help?

✅ Swelling management
✅ Load management plan
✅ Tendon targeted exercise therapy
✅ Pain management of compensating structures
✅ Problem solving of why the injury occurred and how to prevent future recurrences
✅ Detect sub clinical symptoms of SDFT injury and aid in preventative management

📸Anatomy image by CMJ, James G. Napoli out of Janis & Bernor (2019) ‘The Evolution of the Equid Monodactyly: A review including a new hypothesis’. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (7).