Another lunge, another shockwave

 Today I had to work because the saddle fitter is coming tomorrow, so I moved most of my patients to today. BUT I still managed to get home by 2ish so after a quick lunch, I headed out to lunge Lyric. 

 

We headed to the arena to get the lunge whip and line and did a little bit of pillar work and then some serpentines via the lunge. She was good at changing directions with the whip point. Then we headed to the pasture to work on the hills again. She wasn't sassy this time. She looked a bit mincier again. Not as much lame, but more stabby un front I think. Of course I was planning to shockwave her again. Maybe I should have done it first? Oh well. We did our ten minutes total each way with our walk breaks and then I did another lap or two each direction in the arena to assess on flat ground. Better overall still, but.. not as comfortable as I want. She had more "pain face" indicators today too. 

 
Then we headed to the barn and I put her in the washrack cross ties while I got the shockwave out. She was totally fine. I gelled her up and shockwaved her entire nuchal ligament, poll to withers, her neck base and around her scapular edge. I didn't do her girth area today. Then she got a hot shower to get all the goop off and then... I took her in the barn aisle for cookies. We stood where the cross ties are but I didn't tie her (because they're still broken!) and fed her cookies. She did get a tiny bit anxious and pooped and was wiggly but she wasn't bad. I didn't make her stand long and then we headed back to the pasture. Good girl! Baby steps.

 

 




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