3 Beneficial Stretches and Core Strengthening For Your Horse
3 beneficial stretches and core strengthening for your horse. As we learn more about the horse’s body and how things are connected, therapists are finding better ways of keeping our fur-kids safe, healthy and, most importantly, happy. There are many new fads that...
The Modern Horse Chiropractic
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...
Targeting Your Horse’s Core Strength: Exercises
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...
Targeting Your Horse’s Core Strength: Introduction
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...
Targeting your horse’s core strength
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...
The Horse’s Advocate: Ang Lea
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...