Complementary Therapies Archives

How to Protect Your Horse’s Back

by Horses and People | Nov 14, 2023 | Complementary Therapies | 0 |

Horses’ backs are not designed to carry riders. Are you doing all you can to protect them from...

Conformation Fault or Compensation Pattern?

by Dr Lena Clifford, BVSc, PhD, Member IVCA | Jan 25, 2021 | Anatomy, Complementary Therapies, LENA CLIFFORD | 2 |

When you look at a horse, are you evaluating the bone structure, leg alignment, musculature,...

3 Beneficial Stretches and Core Strengthening For Your Horse

by Dr Lena Clifford, BVSc, PhD, Member IVCA | Sep 15, 2020 | Body Work, Groundwork, LENA CLIFFORD | 1 |

3 beneficial stretches and core strengthening for your horse. As we learn more about the horse’s...

The Modern Horse Chiropractic

by Dr Lena Clifford, BVSc, PhD, Member IVCA | Jun 16, 2020 | Body Work, Complementary Therapies, LENA CLIFFORD, Neurology | 1 |

When you hear someone talk about chiropractic treatments for horses, do you visualise a big bloke...

Targeting Your Horse’s Core Strength: Exercises

by Hayley Chambers-Holt and Dr Lena Clifford, BVSc, PhD, Member IVCA | Apr 14, 2020 | Body Work, Horse Health, LENA CLIFFORD, Soundness | 0 |

Before we start with neck stretch exercises, you can read Dr Lena Clifford’s introduction...

Targeting Your Horse’s Core Strength: Introduction

by Dr Lena Clifford, BVSc, PhD, Member IVCA | Apr 14, 2020 | Body Work, Horse Health, LENA CLIFFORD, Soundness | 0 |

Core Strength. As we learn more and more about the horse’s body and how things are connected, we...

Learn to Recognise the Subtle Signs of Pain in Horses

by Dr Lena Clifford, BVSc, PhD, Member IVCA | Jul 4, 2019 | Complementary Therapies, Horse Welfare, LENA CLIFFORD, Neurology | 0 |

Signs of Pain in Horses: Horses are instinctively ‘stoic’, they do their best to mask all signs of...

Targeting your horse’s core strength

by Hayley Chambers-Holt | Jun 4, 2019 | Body Work, Complementary Therapies, Groundwork, Training | 0 |

Have you heard about ‘carrot stretches’ or ‘pilates for horses’ where you entice your horse to...

Geranium Essential Oil

by Hetty Tapper | May 1, 2019 | Essential Oils | 0 |

Geranium Essential Oil Biological Name: Pelagonium graveolens Parts Used: Leaves and flowers...

Skullcap

by Hetty Tapper | Jan 1, 2019 | Complementary Therapies, Herbs, Horse Health | 0 |

Skullcap Name: Skullcap Biological Name: Scutellaria laterifolia Skullcap Parts Used: Aerial parts...

How to Avoid Kissing Spines: Lessons from the Old Masters

by Dr Sabina Holle, VS, PhD , PGDip VA | Mar 3, 2018 | Anatomy, Complementary Therapies | 0 |

Kissing spines. Adams’ ‘Lameness in Horses’ (1987)1 describes kissing spines as a...

The Horse’s Advocate: Ang Lea

by Alex Mullarky | Jun 1, 2017 | Body Work, Their Stories | 0 |

Equine therapy. It had been nine weeks since Cienna had dislocated her shoulder, but when Ang Lea...

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