5 Lessons I Learned from a Major Riding Injury

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by Tamara Baysinger

It wasn’t even my injury.

The wreck happened to Layne, my dear friend who was just back on the endurance trail after her second spinal surgery in two years.

She hadn’t gone a mile from the start when it happened: Her horse, in a moment of impatient head-tossing, fell down. He got up unscathed, but she stayed on the ground with a tib-fib compound fracture.

After the weight of the horse himself, no more weight went on Layne’s leg for over three months. And even that was only the beginning.

The whole ordeal began thirteen months ago. Thirteen months of pain and celebration, of discouragement and adjustment, of discovery, of two steps forward and one step back. Thirteen months during which I’ve had the privilege of campaigning the horse in question – our frustrating and funny and powerful and fragile and astonishing and beloved Atlas. Thirteen months that have amounted to a masterclass in recovering from a major riding injury...

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