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Did you know toe dragging, forging, over-reaching, difficulty performing precise actions could be signs of proprioceptive deficit?

Why does proprioception start to fail?

Although proprioceptive deficits are mainly a consequence of discomfort, it may also be due to a long list of neurological disorders. In the case of pain, compensations are created.

Studies suggest that horses have Central Pattern Generators. Basic rhythmic activity patterns that are generated by central circuits called central pattern generators (CPGs) (Bucher 2009). However, these CPG's become modified by feedback from peripheral proprioception.

We know that horses will adapt their gait in response to pain, when this adaption becomes chronic, this imprints onto the CPG,s (Rombach 2020) and they require rehabilitation to unlearn those movement patterns as although the foot (or any other anatomy) may not be giving the same nociceptive (pain) in put, the higher (wider) musculature has entered an automatic cyclic rhythm.

Read more at this link...Edward Busuttil DVM introduces you to proprioception

https://www.theequinedocumentalist.com/post/proprioception-how-do-our-hoses-know-how-to-put-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other

For a mind blowing webinar on proprioception and posture from Dr Gellman follow this link...

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/proandpos