HOW CAN WE HELP?

Does your Horse have any of the following Symptoms?

• Defensiveness when touched or tacked up
• Shows an unwillingness to move forward
• Refuses to jump or repeatedly knocks down poles
• Unable to back up when asked
• Unable to track up
• Works with quarters in or out
• Unable to execute lateral work
• Changing canter leads or unable to strike off on the correct lead
• Unable or not willing to work up or down hill (Inclines)
• Change in the horses behavior
• Shows unwillingness to relax in work

Then your Horse may benefit from Sports Massage Therapy.

Sports Massage Session Can:

• Improve Circulation
• Improve gait quality
• Increase stride length
• Improve co-ordination
• Improve range of motion at and around the joints
• Stimulate and improve muscle development and muscle tone and help prevent muscle atrophy (wastage)
• It aids the removal of toxins and waste products.
• Improve and maintain flexibility and connective tissue elasticity
• Help prevent injury
• Reduce strain on Tendons and Ligaments
• Relieve areas of soreness, tension, discomfort and spasm
• Improve and aid rehabilitation post injury
• Relieve Tension and promote Relaxation
• It can have neurological benefits
• It can be used as a pre-exercise regime (before exercise to warm up muscles and promote relaxation)
• It can be used as a post-exercise regime to aid recovery and decrease muscle soreness (DOMS)

PLEASE NOTE: Veterinary liaison is essential – By law, all Equine Body Workers have to obtain veterinary permission and/or referral before working on a horse.