/b/veterinary-news/posts/90537 Equine vets at the Animal Health Trust are appealing to horse riders to help with a research project, to assess the interaction between horse, saddle and rider. Dr Sue Dyson, Head of Clinical Orthopaedics at the Centre for Equine Studies at theen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/b/veterinary-news/posts/90537Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:28:22 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:060467e4-c414-4c58-acb0-d1a674434962Hannah Wynne Richards0<p>I&#39;ve done the survey and 3 comments on the questions</p> <p>Firstly you asked if I had any injury which affected riding ability I answered no, as I don&#39;t have an injury. I do, however have an arthritic hip, which makes me sit slightly crookedly. This is due to age related wear and tear, therefore illness or injury might have been better</p> <p>Secondly you asked my weight. Since you wrote MY weight, I put mynaked weight. Riding weight might have been better, as the contribution of tack to total weight varies considerably between disciplines.</p> <p>Thirdly, as this was a survey on saddle influence on back pain, I was surprised to only find 4 choices of saddle type. I ticked GP, as that was the closest. I actually use a VSD saddle, as a GP would never fit my rather straight shouldered Sec D &nbsp;I would have added not only VSD, but also show WH and western,and divided the jumping saddle category into 2-show jumping and hunting/eventing, as these sadles are distinctive types</p> <p>Wynne</p> <img src="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/aggbug?PostID=90537&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">