Liberty Bridge Equine

07/07/2026

Honored to be a part of their recovery! Please come by if you are in the area:

https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/six-horses-rescued-in-animal-cruelty-case-recovering-at-alaqua-animal-refuge

WALTON COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Six horses are now on a long road to recovery at Alaqua Animal Refuge after being rescued from a Holmes County residence. On June 11th, the team at Alaqua was cal…

06/06/2026

06/02/2026

05/22/2026

She got a cut in her closed eye socket, poor mama!

05/22/2026

Love this!

05/20/2026

Girthiness — is it always ulcers, or is that simply what everyone assumes?

Ever stopped to think about what happens when the body’s biochemistry is no longer functioning as nature intended?

When metabolism becomes derailed, nutrients no longer properly reach the tissues. And when tissues are not nourished correctly, the entire body starts compensating.

Think of a chain of dominoes.

One disruption creates another.

Now let’s talk fascia, tendons, ligaments, bone, connective tissue, and the endocrine system that keeps the body functioning as it should.

What happens when the fascia loses softness and glide?

The tissue becomes tight.
The muscles become tight.
The horse enters compensation patterns.

Often this develops into top line dysfunction. The hyoid becomes affected, fascial chains tighten, and the horse struggles to move freely through the body.

Many of these horses remain trapped in natural crookedness:
• the right hip slightly dropped
• the back hollowed or guarded
• excess loading through the left shoulder and left wither
• tightness through the left side of the neck
• strain through the left TMJ
• twisting through the hyoid and jaw musculature

Now add the fact that nerves, blood vessels, and lymphatics are all embedded within connective tissue.

If that tissue becomes tight, inflamed, dehydrated, or poorly nourished, the body cannot function or regenerate efficiently.

That creates discomfort.

So maybe… just maybe… girthiness is not always “just ulcers.”

Maybe it is the body expressing a much deeper systemic dysfunction.

If you are at a loss and look to tie up some dots give me a message 🫶🏻

05/18/2026

05/10/2026

Is your horse secretly shrink wrapped?

I often describe horses as feeling 'shrink wrapped' when they are first presented to me. As many of you know, I am highly tuned in to the fascia of the horse. Over the past few years I feel I've developed a great way of 'unwrapping' horses out of this restrictive mess.

So thanks to the perks of AI I've made an image of what I imagine! I didn't think Elmo would take too kindly to me wrapping him in cling film, also not very eco!

Fascia is like shrink wrap on the horse’s body.
Imagine taking a powerful, athletic horse and wrapping layers of plastic tightly around it. At first, the horse can still move… but not freely. The shoulders lose range. The stride shortens. The neck stiffens. The back can’t swing properly. Breathing becomes restricted. Compensation patterns begin.

That’s exactly what restrictive fascia can feel like in the body and what I feel beneath my hands on the daily.

Fascia is the connective tissue web that surrounds and interpenetrates every muscle, tendon, ligament, nerve, blood vessel, and organ. It is one continuous system from nose to tail. Nothing works in isolation.

When fascia becomes tight, dehydrated, inflamed, or stuck from injury, stress, compensation, poor movement, repetitive strain, trauma, or even emotional tension, it creates restriction throughout the entire system.

A restriction in the shoulder can affect the opposite hind. Tension through the rib cage can alter breathing and spinal movement. Tightness in the jaw or poll can influence posture all the way down the front limbs. Restrictions through the thoracolumbar fascia can reduce engagement, impulsion, and fluidity of movement.

The body starts adapting around the restriction.
Muscles overwork. Joints lose freedom. Movement patterns change. Circulation and lymphatic flow decrease. The nervous system stays guarded and protective.

And often, the area showing symptoms isn’t the true source of the problem.

Because fascia connects EVERYTHING.

That’s why bodywork, movement, hydration, nervous system regulation, and proper biomechanics matter so much. When we release restrictions in the fascial system, we don’t just affect one isolated area, we restore communication and flow throughout the whole body.

A horse in unrestricted movement is fluid, elastic, powerful, and soft.

Remove the 'shrink wrap', and the entire system can breathe again!

05/05/2026

“My horse is fine, I had X-rays done”

How often do we hear people defending their unhappy horse because they had X-rays done?

X-rays show bone, only bone and there can be so much more happening in a horses leg. There are limitations to any diagnostics done and X-rays are firmly limited to bone or any calcified/mineralised soft tissues present if dense enough. The X-ray beam must also be at 90 degrees of the issue to show clearly. You can also see the break down of the cartilage in the area, he was an 8 year old TB gelding. He was only grade 1 out of 5 lame but he lacked a good suspension phase in the stride and his movement was choppy.

The problem below was a tiny bone fragment that had been covered in cartilage and scar tissue to protect the joint. There was localised inflammation around the capsule of the joint as well as a break down of cartilage in the fetlock joint. It did not show in the X-rays aswell as a few other issues. The full findings are available on my patreon page.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/comparing-vet-106702710?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link