Event information
Event venue: Chelwood Equestrian, Nutley, East Sussex, TN22 3HH
Date: 11th December
Price: £175
With the increasing use of technology to identify movement abnormalities, we will be looking at how humans and machines can come together to more accurately pinpoint lameness in our horse population.
In the morning we will be working with David Sinclair, a top lameness vet, to help improve our observation techniques using our eyes, ears and experience to assess movement and to identify the more subtle signs of lameness. We will assess a variety of horses, across varying terrains, movements and gaits both in hand and under saddle, followed by interactive discussions of our findings.
The afternoon will see demonstrations of different technologies that assess equine movement to pick up inconsistencies. As vet practices are using lameness identification equipment more routinely, body workers, farriers and saddlers should be to be able to read, understand and interpret the results. This will then lead to our session with renowned trainer, Liz Eaton, who will be talking us through how to pick up imblances in the horse under saddle and whether this is subtle lameness.
All delegates and speakers will then retire to a classroom to thoroughly pick through the day’s findings and come to conclusions about the future of lameness detection.
Attend this day to hone your skills in movement assessment, learn what is considered ‘normal’ vs. pathological – where does asymmetry become adaptive? Also learn how to interpret data to help build valuable rehab and treatment plans.
SPEAKERS
- David Sinclair - BVetMed CertES(Orth) MRCVS
- Liz Eaton - BHS Performance Coach (BHSI)
- Christina Frigast - MRCVS, CERP, Equinosis Certified Practitioner, Independent consultant for Eickemeyer
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Physios
- Chiropractors
- Osteopaths
- Massage Therapists
- Trainers
- Farriers
- Saddlers
- Equine Professionals
SPEAKER PROFILES
David Sinclair
David’s first career was in nursing where he became interested in human orthopaedics and spent two years specialising in human orthopaedic care. He returned to horses – his first interest, by qualifying from the Royal Veterinary College in 1996 and joining The Bell Equine Veterinary Clinic as an intern, then assistant and ultimately a partner in 2003.
David’s chief interests are in Lameness Diagnosis, Sports and Performance Medicine, Emergency Surgery and Racehorse and Racetrack work. Since taking a year out, following leaving Bell Equine in September 2020, David has opened a lameness clinic in Stilebridge, Kent, where he is aiming to standardise lameness examination, diagnosis and treatment regimes, in order to derive scientific data helpful in verifying the efficacy in different treatments.
Liz Eaton
Liz has over 35 years experience coaching riders from grass roots to advanced competition in all 3 disciplines. Psychology and biomechanics of horse and rider play a large role in her coaching style and she works closely with professionals in related fields to facilitate this.
Christina Frigast
Christina did her degree in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Her final year before graduation was spent traveling between the different continents seeing equine practice as well as being an Erasmus exchange student at Hannover University in Germany. Following graduation, she took the opportunity to move to the United Kingdom and work as Product Development Manager for Eickemeyer Veterinary Equipment Ltd specialising in the Equinosis Q with Lameness Locator software. A system she had become very familiar with during her travels. Objective lameness evaluation was still very new to the continent and especially the UK where only a few systems were being used in equine practice. As Equinosis Certified Practitioner, Christina spent most of her time demonstrating the Equinosis Q to equine practices, assisting the veterinary surgeons with their lameness examinations. In early 2018 she joined Blaircourt Equine Veterinary Clinic and continued to use the Equinosis Q in cases of lameness or poor performance. Despite being in clinical practice, she was still actively involved in courses and events worldwide focusing on objective lameness evaluation and the Equinosis Q. She also completed a certification in equine rehabilitation (CERP) in early 2020. From December 2019 she has been working as an independent consultant for Eickemeyer in Europe as a specialist in objective lameness evaluation.
