What are something you can do to loosen and relax the rhomboids/trapezius muscles? My mare is starting to develop a dip right in front of the withers/ base of the neck and I'm thinking its because the muscles are tight and she's not using them correctly. Is this something massage can help, or what are some exercises I can do in and out of the saddle to correct the problem? I had the saddle custom fitted to her but maybe its not sitting correctly anymore and is worth looking at?
Posted 2018-02-12 6:47 AM Subject: RE: Tight rhomboids/trapezius muscle?
The One
Posts: 7997 Location: South Georgia
This happens to my mare when her feet are hurting her. She compensastes in this area on the opposite side of her body. Finally had X-rays and lameness exam and found navicular in fronts...worse in right. This makes sense because muscling is hard and tensed on left shoulder. Massage sessions do make it go down a bit, but only temporarily. Much better since shoeing changes were made for the navicular (wedged shoes and equipak).
Tight rhomboids/trapezius muscle?
