“I help horses feel their best and perform at the top of their potential by assessing their entire body. My goal is to restore mobility, balance and improve the function of all systems within so your horse can do what they do best with as little restrictions as possible.”

 

My Mission

I am here to advocate for horses who need health help. I can help find the root cause of a wide range of disorders and ailments that have a negative effect on your horses well being. I use remedies that are natural to your horse, encourage the body to heal through its own natural processes, as well as get them to use their own body weight to remobilize joints and organs. The benefits of using natural therapies to heal your horse, is that the disorder will be healed from the inside out, and preventive measures will be used to avoid reoccurance, and your horse will come out stronger and healthier, rather than masking the ailment with a quick fix.

My Education

Certified Equine Remedial Therapist

The Equine Remedial Program is a four year program that includes a combination of classroom work, practical hands on components, self study and case studies. The anatomy is taught starting right from the individual cell to the whole make up of the horse. The course challenges the student to look outside the box, examine the whole picture of what is going on and use all the clues available to them to come up with an effective treatment plan.

What is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a practice that aims to improve the body's overall health and wellness by treating the whole horse, not just a specific ailment. Using manipulations to move the musculoskeletal tissues and regain mobility within. It works to balance the endocrine organs, circulatory system, lymphatic system, nervous system, and all other systems, tissues and organs to relieve pain or discomfort.

What I can Offer

  • Osteopathy: noninvasive manual therapy that aims to help improve overall health across the body systems by manipulating and strengthening the musculoskeletal framework, osteopathic intervention can help treat muscle pain, arthritis, internal inflammation/stagnation, postural problems

  • Massage ( deep ): working on deep muscles that lie more internal, by using advanced techniques and softening muscles that lie above first

  • Massage (superficial) : working on muscles that lie closer to the skin layer, often loosening fascial lines and derma-adhesions, removing knots and resetting the nervous system

  • Lymphatic massage: slow moving massage that pushes lymph towards lymphatic organs to help decrease swelling and edema, assists the flow of lymph into bundles of lymph nodes in the body so it can be cleansed and new lymphocytes can be added.

  • Acupuncture : A technique in which fine needles are inserted into specific anatomical points along organ meridians to help a wide variety of disorders including pain, organ function, relaxation, arthritis, laminitis, immune function, skin problems, heat or cold, nervous system, imbalance of yin and yang

  • Rehab programs: are horse specific physical workouts to practice between visits to increase healing and strengthening

  • K-taping: kinesiology tape is applied to help relax or bring blood flow into injured muscles, tendons or ligaments help them heal, or aid in movement advanced stretching- stretches that pertain to specific muscles within the body, often to help with deep tissue massage and isolate certain limbs or muscles

  • Cranial-sacral therapy:  Is a light massage that offers relief of pain in the cranium, cervical spine, sacrum, and spaces between the cranium and sacrum

  • Herbology: Is the study of plants, herbs and botanical knowledge and the practical use of them to medically treat individual ailments

  • Nutrition: Examination of your individual dietary needs and the way the body uses nutrients to support itself

  • Homeopathy: an alternative medicine practice based on the theory of treating problems with substances that normally cause similar problems in healthy individuals.. Treating ‘like with like’. Often in small pilule form, with the recommended dose being specific to each horse. There is no harmful side effects of homeopathic remedies.

  • Fecal samples-: Is testing fecal from a horse to look for parasites

  • Gelding scar removal: Is a massage technique relieving scar tissue caused from castration surgery, gelding scars can cause major restriction in the lumbar spine, pelvis, and all muscles involved

  • Sheath cleaning: is cleaning dirt and debris out of geldings sheath, dirty sheaths can cause severe discomfort and pain and inhibit performance