Tag: riding injuries

Equestrians make poor patients

April 27, 2009.Reading time 4 minutes.

Recently I read an article in http://www.thehorse.com, Injury Rehabilitation Underutilized by Equestrians, Researchers Say. Doctors at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, reviewed the records of patients over 16 years of age that were admitted to the Level 1 trauma center from 1995 to 2005. Basically, they found that many equestrians are bad patients who […]

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Riding After a Concussion

July 7, 2008.Reading time 8 minutes.

When I was a kid, no one paid all that much attention to concussions. Heck, we were lucky if we were wearing helmets that offered even a modicum of protection. Most of us got up, sat down again if we saw stars, and were probably back riding within a day or two. But, let’s face […]

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