Joanna Thurman-Baker’s dressage blog: ‘I landed smack on my back from the very top of a buck’

Hello all and welcome back, this time with another edition of: ‘I’m injured’.

I am currently on human box rest and I can safely say that if I was a horse, my rehab programme would not being going to plan, and the vet would be called to sedate me to stop me re-injuring myself!

Straight after I got home from Sheepgate, I fell off (or took a very unplanned dismount). It was totally out of the blue, but unfortunately, falling off is an occupational hazard of riding (pictured top soon after my fall by my sister, who kindly captured the moment!). I landed smack on my back from the very top of a buck, then whacked my head back resulting in whip lash. I immediately knew that it had hurt so

I gently rolled into the recovery position so I was already set for when mum and Sam came running over.

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*Article written by: Joanna Thurman-Baker *