Equine Therapy

Equine therapeutic care offers a natural drug-free solution to your horses total health. Along with your veterinarian this therapy can reduce pain, improve performance, movement and well being.  This therapy includes accupressure, massage therapy principals with a spinal manipulation technique.

Training in the following fields:

•  Anatomy of the horse

•  Correct movement in all gaits

•  Conformation: correct and incorrect causing lameness and stress

•  Lameness: overall view of general types encountered, lame and unnatural movement

•  Horseshoeing overview: examining correct shoeing practices and those that may cause lamenesses

•  Spinal manipulation: manouvering of the vertabrae and postioning of structure

•  Saddle fitting and proper padding for English and Western Massage and acupressure, stress points and proper use of the hands

Practical experience- going on five years  of hands on experience!

Conditions that may indicate a need for equine therapy:

•  back, neck, leg, or tail pain

•  injuries caused from performance, slipping, falling , or training

•  changes in behavior ex. bucking, irritability, balking, crossfiring

•  refusal to perform certain maneuvers

•  sensitivity to grooming, saddling, mounting etc.

Note: This type of therapy used to be considered "alternative" but now is considered an integral  part of keeping your equine athlete  in peak performance shape * keeping aged horses comfortable thus extending their using time * eliminating  behavior issues ( caused from discomfort) * making the training process easier on the horse and the trainer in some cases.