Building a Stronger Stifle


Stifle pain or injury can bring your rides to a screeching halt. But if your horse is suffering from a soft tissue injury, and your vet suggests exercise, where do you start?

Our stifle rehabilitation program provides a comprehensive set of manual, range of motion, and functional strengthening exercises to help get your horse back to running pain free!

Movement is Medicine


Chances are that if you are reading this, you have a horse that is having stifle issues. Whether it is weakness in the hindquarter, leading to intermittent upward fixation of the patella, or your horse has had to undergo surgery, this program offers an easy to follow step by step guide to help your horse regain lost range of motion (ROM) and strength to get you back to doing what you love to do the most, ride your horse, while they are feeling the best they can.

Evidence shows that the benefits of regular physical activity are clearly a benefit to your horse’s health. After careful screening, therapeutic exercise prescription may be used to augment your horse’s physical therapy plan. Once your vet has diagnosed your horse with stifle problems, visit with them to see if therapeutic exercise prescription may be used to augment your horse's plan of care.

We'll teach you safe ways to do this for you and your horse to minimize the chances of either of you getting hurt. This program is meant to guide you through the process of rehabbing your horse's stifle. We start by gaining any lost range of motion through stretches. Then progress you through strengthening, with isometrics, then active range of motion, then a gradual return to work.


A Bit About Becky


Becky grew up on a horse, with her early days competing in all 4-H events, as well as starting her own colts. As she finished her Masters degree in Physical Therapy and her college years drew to a close, she found herself in the ranch country of the Sandhills of Nebraska. It is here where she started barrel racing and met her husband Chris who is a PRCA steer roper. Becky is a WPRA card holder and competes in barrel racing at both the professional and local levels. Their two daughters, Emma and Gracie, also compete at the high school and junior high levels of rodeo, in barrel racing, pole bending, cutting, and goat tying.