Hypermobility

Hypermobile horses don't need more movement — they need better movement. Here's how to structure groundwork that builds connective-tissue stability instead of adding load to already-stressed joints.

Your horse feels loose, bendy, and hard to organize — but is that hypermobility or weakness? The answer changes everything about how you train.

If your horse feels like rubber in your hands but keeps mysteriously going lame, the suppleness isn't the problem — it's the symptom.

Loose-jointed horses don't need more stretch — they need precision work that teaches their nervous system where the ground is. Here's what that looks like in practice.

The thoracic sling is the one structure that determines whether your horse's front end stabilizes or collapses — and in hypermobile horses, it's almost always the problem.

Chasing suppleness in a hypermobile horse doesn't make them more athletic — it makes them more broken. Here's what to train instead.

A horse that bends easily and feels loose in your hands isn't automatically a good thing. Here's how to tell the difference between suppleness and hypermobility.

Summer conditioning tempts us to log more miles, but for a hypermobile horse, heat plus mileage is a recipe for instability. Here's what to do instead.