Joanne Archer, the McTimoney practitioner, visited Mattie and Ziggy today. It was the first time I have had a chiropractor treat them, their usual therapist is a neuromuscular sports horse therapist.
Joanne was lovely. She was so so gentle but what she does is clearly very effective. Ziggy only needed what she called "fine tuning" and she said she was very pleased with his condition given his history of injury (before me) and illness (with me). He loved the treatment, spent most of the time resting his front teeth on my shoulder (he is very chilled when he does this). He told her when he had had enough by yawning hugely, and then followed her over to where she was writing her notes to thank her by snuffling her hair and putting his head in her elbow. She was absolutely smitten with him which shows what great taste she has!
I was concerned about Mattie as he is so stiff, but she said that for an ex-racer he really wasn't in bad shape and that his lifestyle and level of work obviously suited him. He found some parts of the treatment very uncomfortable and bobbed his head to tell us so, but he clicked his neck himself - as she applied pressure to the shoulder he swung his head around and down, and his neck released just like that! - and swayed towards her to seek more pressure when she released his sacroiliac.
They both played like yearlings afterwards, lovely to watch.
Joanne was lovely. She was so so gentle but what she does is clearly very effective. Ziggy only needed what she called "fine tuning" and she said she was very pleased with his condition given his history of injury (before me) and illness (with me). He loved the treatment, spent most of the time resting his front teeth on my shoulder (he is very chilled when he does this). He told her when he had had enough by yawning hugely, and then followed her over to where she was writing her notes to thank her by snuffling her hair and putting his head in her elbow. She was absolutely smitten with him which shows what great taste she has!
I was concerned about Mattie as he is so stiff, but she said that for an ex-racer he really wasn't in bad shape and that his lifestyle and level of work obviously suited him. He found some parts of the treatment very uncomfortable and bobbed his head to tell us so, but he clicked his neck himself - as she applied pressure to the shoulder he swung his head around and down, and his neck released just like that! - and swayed towards her to seek more pressure when she released his sacroiliac.
They both played like yearlings afterwards, lovely to watch.
