When you hear someone talk about chiropractic treatments for horses, do you visualise a big bloke pulling or pushing on a horse, cracking joints or bumping your horse with a rubber mallet? Yes, chiropractic treatments used to be like that because people believed it necessary to use force to adjustRead More →
Before we start with neck stretch exercises, you can read Dr Lena Clifford’s introduction here. Let’s start with the first stretches. If you practice these exercises on a regular basis you will get to know your horse’s body better, improve his/her core strength and spinal health, and help keep yourRead More →
Core Strength. As we learn more and more about the horse’s body and how things are connected, we try and find better ways of keeping our fur-kids safe, healthy and most importantly, happy. There are lots of new fads that promise quick cures for imbalances, whether they are found inRead More →
Signs of Pain in Horses: Horses are instinctively ‘stoic’, they do their best to mask all signs of pain in an effort to keep-up and blend-in with the rest of their herd. By the time your horse shows clear signs of lameness or injury, it is likely a lot ofRead More →
Have you heard about ‘carrot stretches’ or ‘pilates for horses’ where you entice your horse to bend or stretch with the help of a carrot? While the actual stretching exercises prescribed in these programs can be great for your horse’s body, ‘carrot stretches’ can teach horses to ‘mug you’ forRead More →
Geranium Essential Oil Biological Name: Pelagonium graveolens Parts Used: Leaves and flowers Essential Oil Method of Extraction: Steam distillation. Geranium Essential Oil Scent: Floral, fresh, strong and sweet with a fruity note. Constituents: beta-caryophyllene, citronellol, citronellyl acetate, geraniol, geranyl acetate, isomenthone, menthone, linalyl acetate, linalool, phellandrene and sabinene. Reported ActionsRead More →
Skullcap Name: Skullcap Biological Name: Scutellaria laterifolia Skullcap Parts Used: Aerial parts (leaves and stem). Contains: Aglycone, baicalein, baicalin, bioflavonoids, bitter iridoids, calcium, carbohydrates, fats, fibre, flavonoid glycosides, glycosides, iridiods, iron, magnesium, melatonin, phosphorus, polysaccharides, potassium, protein, resin, scutellarin, scutellarein, sodium, tannins, vitamin C, volatile oil, wogonin and zinc. ReportedRead More →
Kissing spines. Adams’ ‘Lameness in Horses’ (1987)1 describes kissing spines as a condition of the vertebral column in horses caused by overlapping and/or impingement of the dorsal spinous processes (DSP) in the thoracic and/or lumbar vertebrae. Kissing spines lead to pain in the back with the associated avoidance behaviour, suchRead More →
Equine therapy. It had been nine weeks since Cienna had dislocated her shoulder, but when Ang Lea of Horse Fix was called in, the mare was still hobbling on three legs. On top of that, the adjustment in how she was carrying herself was causing secondary problems in her hindRead More →
Garlic Biological Name: Allium sativum Parts used: Bulb and the top when fresh Contains: ajoene, allicin, alliin, alliinase, allylpropyl disulphide, biotin, calcium, carbohydrates, citral, cobalt, copper, diallyldisulphide, diallyl trisulphide, enzymes, essential oil, fats, fibre, flavonoids, geraniol, germanium, glucokinins, iodine, linalool, magnesium, phellandrene, phosphorus, potassium, protein, scordinins, selenium (except in deficientRead More →
