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EQUINE TREATMENT 

Equine physiotherapy is becoming popular in equestrianism as a way of enhancing horses performance, reducing the risk of injury, enhancing welfare and improving prognosis following injury. Physiotherapy for your horse is a fantastic addition to add to the multidisciplinary approach already used to maintain your horses welfare alongside vets, farriers and dentists to name a few. Regular physiotherapy can help every horse and rider combination achieve their goals, whether it's working up competitive levels within varying disciplines or simply bringing your horse back into work as a happy hacker. Treatment is tailored specifically to each horses needs with an array of modalities and techniques offers to provide targeted treatment with rationale to support its use. 

 

Some indicators to suggest your horse may benefit from physiotherapy:

Changes in movement patterns

Reluctancy to travel forwards

Struggling to get the correct canter lead

Changes in behaviour

Refusing to
jump

Abnormal head tilting 

Sensitivity through specific areas

CONDITIONS BENEFITED BY PHYSIOTHERAPY:

- Vertebral pain (including back & neck)
- Sacroiliac joint issues 
- Osteoarthritis 
- Overriding or impinging dorsal spinous processes (kissing spine)
- Bone spavin
- Muscle wastage 
- Fractures
- Stifle injuries (menisci injuries) 
- Ringbone
- Cervical vertebral stenotic myelopathy (CVSM)
- Tendon and ligament strains 

 

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For more details including price, locations covered and modalities included in treatment please visit:

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