Collection or Contortion: The Anatomy and Biomechanics of Positioning and Bend by Gerd Heuschman DVM

NOW IN PRINT Publisher's Introduction We are delighted to bring Gerd Heuschmann's important work back to print! Our publishing goals for this book are 1. to make this important book accessible again in a lasting format that will stand up over time and 2. to return more closely to the meaning in the author's original manuscript conceived in the German language. Taking nothing away from the first English edition, we return to the exact translation of the German title: Die Anatomie un Biomechanick von Stellung und Biegung which literally translates to: The Anatomy and Bio-mechanics of Position and Bend. The word "Positioning" is not used nor widely understood enough in the English language. In this edition we hope to explain the meaning of this vital concept to developing, bend, collection and straightness. As Dr. Heuschmann will explain, the horse's poll is an elliptical joint which can be flexed both in the longitudinal and lateral axes. Positioning refers to the delicate co-ordinated,