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Immersion Program

A Special Place for a Special Education

Jean Luc Cornille

Snellville Georgia

Feb 17th, 18th and 19th 2012

Prices are $225.00 per day

Immersion 5

Friday February 17th Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th

Biomechanics of SI Injuries

At the 19th century, the Prussian cavalry elevated the horses’ head and neck completely. The experiment lasted a few decades and was then abandoned. The untold story is that the total elevation of the horses’ neck engendered an alarming level of back injuries. Today, an equally alarming level of sacroiliac injuries is affecting modern horses. Would it be possible that rushing the horse forward onto a low neck posture could induce Sacroiliac strain?

Friday February 17th is SI Day.

Sacroiliac strains result in most instances from repetitive abnormal stresses.

In the class room, manipulating the skeletons, and working the horses in hand or under the saddle, Jean Luc is going to guide you through;

- Understanding the kinematics abnormalities inducing dangerous stresses,

- Feeling or identifying visually the kinematics abnormalities leading to SI problems.

- Learning how to correct or avoid these kinematics abnormalities.

Saturday February 18th is Horse Shoeing Day.

Everyone knows the terminology, break over, egg-bar shoes, medio-lateral balance, clips, etc. Do you know that different techniques can be applied for each one of these shoeing peculiarities? Would you like to know how each technique does influence the hoof capsule? What about a full day with an experienced farrier willing to explain?

Mike Gallagher has spent decades on the shoeing stand of the show ring making time after time, the miracles allowing doubtful horses to perform well in their next class. The miracles are in fact shoeing techniques modifying the dynamics involved in the hoof and lower leg. When Mike meet Jean Luc he was delighted to have, from the perspective of the horse limbs’ kinematics and explanation of what he was doing out of intuition, skill, and experience.

Mike will explain you the break over phenomenon from the shoer perspective. Jean Luc will explain at which instant of the stride the break over occur and how longer toe or too short toe might disrupt the horse’s capacity to push off.

Shoeing is the platform of proper movement. However kinematics peculiarities demands specific adaptations of the shoeing technique. For instance, Mike will explain the dynamics of egg-bar shoes, Jean Luc will explain why some kinematics peculiarities cannot deal with egg-bar shoes. For once a horse shoer and a trainer can sustain simple as well as highly technical discussions staying in their own field of knowledge and respecting each other expertise.

Mike and Jean Luc have developed a strong friendship. The only field where they compete all the time is humor.

Sunday February 19th is Navicular Syndrome Day

Betsy Uhl, DVM, PhD, dip, is inviting you inside the navicular bone. In her brilliant previous presentation, (Immersion 4) Betsy emphasized the fact that instead of focusing on the cartilages, one should focus on abnormal stresses on the bones. More and more, studies demonstrate that lesions appear on the bones before altering the cartilages.

With Immersion 5, Betsy is furthering the discussion by showing how the inside of the distal sesamoid bone deteriorate before lesions appears on the surface, creating navicular disease. Abnormal stresses are the root cause of navicular syndrome and the best prevention as well as the best therapy is an equitation and training technique focusing on creating proper kinematics. The purity of the gait has always been Great authors’ focus. However, the purity of the gait have been distorted by judging standards evolving further and further away from the horse’s biological mechanism. The truth lies in the horse’s physiology, the knowledge of which evolves constantly. With an advanced specialist such as Betsy, one does have the opportunity to learn the horse’s physique effectively functions.

As a rider with classical training Betsy has learned to feel the difference between proper and improper movement. As a Pathologist, Betsy has the opportunity to study pathological changes created by uneducated training techniques. Betsy and Jean Luc are actively working together to understand how abnormal stresses can be prevented allowing new cells to be properly specialized and therefore, allowing the remodeling process to operate efficiently.

We have limited capacities in terms of participants. Reserve your place early.

How shoeing techniques influence limbs kinematics, how Sacroiliac Strain occurs, how Navicular Syndrome develops. Three specialists. Betsy Uhl DVM. PhD. Mike Gallagher Shoeing and Jean Luc Cornille science of motion, who appreciate each other’s competence and can discuss openly in a friendly atmosphere.

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November 18th,19th & 20th

Immersion

(We have created the ultimate learning tool)

Providing the science behind riding and training techniques is the trademark of Jean Luc’s teaching. Clinics are successful because Jean Luc teaches how to adapt riding skills and knowledge to the horse’s peculiar needs. This distinguishes Jean Luc method from the usual submitting the horse to the system.

A program needed to be created to go one step further, allowing riders, trainers and therapists to fully comprehend how the practical application of most advanced equine research studies can further horses’ performances and restore soundness.

We created Immersion: a property, an atmosphere and a use of equipment allowing a full immersion into advanced scientific knowledge and the practical application of such knowledge.

Between the training ring where the rider working the horse or the therapist working in hand, learns the feeling of proper body coordination, and the class room where one can visualize the vertebral columns and body parts with computer animations how the horse’s physique effectively works, Immersion is the ultimate learning tool.

Immersion I, II and III have already furthered participants’ knowledge and propensity to apply new knowledge, both in hand and under the saddle. Along the years, we will continue this program exploring new subjects and returning sometimes to the most interesting topics.

The next Immersion is scheduled Friday November 18, Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20.

On Sunday 20th, Dr. Betsy Uhl D.V.M., Ph.D. Dip ACVP, will be our guest speaker, sharing with us pertinent observations made in the necropsy room in relation to lateral bending and transversal rotations of the horse’s vertebral column. Sunday’s topic will be the shoulder in, which is described by his inventor as “a movement oblique and circular” (Francois Robichon de la Gueriniere) . Centuries later, Jean Marie Denoix demonstrated that lateral bending was always associated with a movement of transversal rotation. “In the cervical and thoracic vertebral column, rotation is always coupled with lateroflexion and vice versa.” (1999). Betsy’s talk will introduce the unique perspective of verifying through manipulations in the necropsy room the veracity of advanced theories.

We plan to invite guest speakers into our Immersion Program as much as possible including prominent veterinarians, breeders, farriers, etc).

The topic of Friday 18 will be the Science of Motion’s Work in- Hand. Introduction for some, advanced study for others, the in-hand technique can be used as an education for riders and trainers, and as a therapy. This is, for the therapist, a unique opportunity to further their work by placing the horse in motion.

Saturday 19 will be the day of study. Horses brought to the Science of Motion because conventional as well as alternative approaches could not identify the root cause of their problems. Consequently they failed to rehabilitate these horses, and they will be analyzed in great detail until a sound working hypothesis can be suggested, and a gymnastic program can be proposed.

One day will be how to use the Science of Motion’s Work in Hand in the rehabilitation of injured horses

Another day will be about Cases Study. One, two or more horses will be analyzed for their lameness or lack of performance. Solutions will be proposed and experimented in the training ring and then explained in great details in the class room. As for Immersion I, II and III, lunch and humor will be provided.

The third day will focus on a specific gymnastic exercise. The November Immersion will analyze in great details the Shoulder In.

The move is frequently used for rehabilitation as well as performances. For instance, the gymnastic of the shoulder in is particularly efficient for horses jumping with the knees close from each other over the jump.

The presentation will include;

- History of the shoulder in.

- Biomechanics of the Shoulder in.

- Conditions that render the shoulder in efficient in terms of education and rehabilitation.

- Inaccuracy of the judging standards

For non-riders as well as rider, the Science of Motion’s Work in Hand allows educating the horse to properly coordinate his vertebral column mechanism.

2772 Lenora Road Snellville, GA 30039