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    RideProof Your Back: Back Pain Solutions for Equestrian Athletes
    RideProof Your Back: Back Pain Solutions for Equestrian Athletes
    RideProof Your Back: Back Pain Solutions for Equestrian Athletes
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    RideProof Your Back: Back Pain Solutions for Equestrian Athletes

    By Kathlyn Hossack BScKin CAT(C)

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    Back pain is one of the most prevalent chronic complaints among equestrian athletes. RideProof Your Back is all about why back pain tends to happen in the first place and some practical how-to solutions towards correcting the issue for the long term.
    Written by equestrian biomechanics expert, Kathlyn Hossack, of RideWell Performance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTablo Publishing
    Release dateAug 11, 2020
    ISBN9781649692108
    RideProof Your Back: Back Pain Solutions for Equestrian Athletes

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      RideProof Your Back - Kathlyn Hossack BScKin CAT(C)

      Part 1: Why

      Part 1: Why

      Trauma 

      Of course as equestrians we participate in higher risk activities than the everyday person. As riders we assume risk of injury every time we spend time on or around our horses. There’s a lot that can go wrong in riding to cause injury, low back pain included.

      Many riders who see me about their back pain relay grand tales of falls that began it all, with the residual back pain ebbing and flowing in severity over the months and years that followed the original accident. This is actually where my own personal journey began with back pain. At the age of 16 while riding a young horse. The girth had loosened a bit through the warm up and while the saddle began to slip slightly to the side this young mare took off bucking. I was thrown into the arena wall before hitting the ground. While I walked away from this event, I spent the next few days stuck to a couch due to severe hip and low back pain and ceasing. 

      Being young this event didn’t keep me still for long, but over the next six to seven years I was routinely dysfunctional because of severe back pain- at one time diagnosed as a disc protrusion between lumbar vertebrae four and five. I remember receiving this diagnosis after years of seeing various doctors, physios, and chiropractors. It seemed like a permanent reality. I was both relieved that I knew why my back hurt and why riding was routinely painful, while also now feeling like my world was being dictated by the pain and the impact it was having on my performance as a rider. 

      For some time after this I became frustrated and depressed. The professionals that were supposed to be helping me were only giving me non-helpful words. Physio wasn’t working, the doctors just told me I needed to strengthen more, sending me home with no other guidance outside of suggesting I ride less, and the chiropractors simply suggested I return every couple weeks for a tune up. I hadn’t even turned twenty and my body had failed me. 

      I continued training and competing, both in riding and other sports. I became hardheaded and my story revolved around me being a victim of my pain. I championed myself for pushing through regardless, following the storyline of so many other high performing riders I admired: Pain is inherent to the sport. In order to be great, you must also

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