KB Equine

14/01/2025

PEMF CERTIFICATIONS:

KB EQUINE has successfully completed PEMF Equine Training, PEMF Small Animal & PEMF for Live Stock. 🐴🐶🐱🐮🐏🐷

I will be offering treatments on people/ riders in the near future.

Explore the benefits in what PEMF therapy can offer for your horse, dog or even your live stock. Book in a PEMF session with KB EQUINE. ⚡️⚡️

☎️📞Please reach out to the page or 0428 232 163

13/01/2025

10/01/2025

What’s the Right Heel Height_ - EasyCare Hoof Boot News

09/01/2025

Hi all, it looks like I am having some issues with my business messenger with my messages intermittently unable to be sent and received.

Greatly apologise for any inconvenience.

For urgent enquires, please contact my phone number on 0428 232 163 ☎️📞

08/01/2025

Phantom 🐎💛🌝🌻

Phantom throughly enjoyed his Equine Sports Treatment paired with PEMF.

What are the benefits of PEMF?

- Increases circulation & improves blood oxygenation

- Rapidly relieves pain with immediate and lasting response

- Dramatically decreases inflammation

- Increases range of movement

- Enhances muscle function

- Enhances muscle and tendon endurance, strength, & recovery

- Safety exellerates healing of injuries such as wounds, muscle tears, bruising, surgical sites etc or general muscle soreness

- Increases wellness

- Improve performance

- Provides deep relaxation, stress reduction, and deep tissue massage through pulsating muscle stimulation

And that’s only to name just a few of the benefits!

05/01/2025

★ ENHANCING PERFORMANCE & WELL-BEING ★

KB EQUINE (Katie Beresford) specialises in:
☆ Equine Body Work
☆ PEMF Therapy
☆ Equissage Therapy
☆ Red/ Infrared/Blue Light
☆ Full Body Clipping
☆Stockist of Tuffrock Products

I currently offer my services to a range of horses from racehorses to Grand Prix show jumpers, grand prix dressage horses, campdraft horses, show horses, pony club horses, companion/pleasure horses and everyone in-between!

I am:
☆ Fully Qualified
☆ Fully Insured
☆ ETTA Member

Qualifications:
- Certificate in EQUINE PEMF MagnaWave 2025
- Equitape Practitioner (Kinesiology Taping) 2023
- Deep Tissue Mobilisation Module 1 2024
- Equestricare Equine Sports Therapy 2022
- Certificate in Equissage 2021
- Veterinary Nursing Cert IV 2019
- Animal Studies II 2018
- Agriculture III 2018

📍Areas currently servicing:
- Southern Highlands & Surrounds
- Southern Tablelands& Surrounds
- Thirlmere, Pheasants Nest, Bargo, Camden & Surrounds
- ACT & Surrounds including Murrumbateman, Sutton, Bywong, Bungendoore etc
- Hawkesbury
- Wagga
- Bathurst & Surrounds
- Accommodating other areas by appointment!

BOOKINGS:
To book, please contact:
Phone: 0428 232 163
Or message the page for availabilities.

01/01/2025

DSLD

Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Desmitis

We have all encountered watching a horse move or stand and our glance moves down to the fetlocks which just don't look right, the upright position often replaced by an hyperextension of the fetlock or a dropped look.

Often if we only focus on the lower limb, we might think by simply fixing an angle that everything will rectify itself but as in the word degenerative the sad truth is is that for a lot of cases the issue will only become worse and if we use another name which is

Equine Systemic Proteoglycan Accumulation we might have a better understanding that it may not just be a Suspensory issue but a connective tissue issue, and as the horse's body is built by the binding of connective tissue then we may just have a whole horse issue.

What is Proteoglycan??

This is a basic overview as it gets way to complicated

They are made up of a core protein and attaching to the core is a chain of Glycosaminoglycans (GAGS) which are basically sugar chains. The Proteoglycan can be found in the ECM, the ECM is the Extracellular Matrix which is the glue that holds cells together and allows movement of the cells as a group, it also filters, blocks or delays signals and helps protect the cells from damage.

The Proteoglycans or PGs for short anchor to the surface of the cells or traverse around the cell membrane, sending signals and aiding in wound healing and even in embryonic development. Think of them of fillers of space between every cell in the ECM and even beyond,

The shape of them makes them able to swell and make them resist compression so in tendon areas that have such a force put on them so the tendons of the lower limb are abundant with Proteoglycans and its these which get unevenly distributed accumulating hence the other name of Equine Systemic Proteoglycan Accumulation

If we think this occurs between collagen and elastin fibres then we need to think where these fibres are in the whole horse, we also have to think of the abnormal loading of the limb and the connections of the suspensory to other structures, where it merges, how the rest of the body is dealing with an abnormal load, how the foot shape is being defined, the other tendonous areas in the limb and the connection to the muscles as we go up the limb

It is still widely unknown about the repercussions and new research is being found and to keep updated is to keep informed.

Riding is not advised for horses suffering from this and often the degenerative angle of the ailment means that often positive outcomes are rare, but it is hereditary so again we have to look to breeders to fly the flag for a better breed standard to help the future horses.

There are many wild claims out there of cures and it saddens me that owners are not only put through the heartache of not knowing where to turn with their horse but will be accosted by these claims and made to feel a failure if they don't follow the crowd. Remember success is always your horse being pain free and comfortable in its own body just to be a horse

22/12/2024

That's a wrap for 2024 🤍🐴

This year has been a great year!
KB EQUINE has grown phenomenally making this year the most successful year to date. It is all thanks to my clients (regulars & new) who have supported me through the year to ensure their horses are in peak condition 👌

Big things are to come in 2025 with new services being added to enhance the business even more! I will no longer be offering show preparation/ plaiting as I am too busy with other aspects of the business.

We will also be having a price increase as of 1st JANUARY 2025. Our Equine Sports Treatments will be $110 inclusive.

As of JANUARY 2025 I will continue to offer:
⭐️Equine Bodywork
⭐️Equissage
⭐️Full Body Clipping
⭐️Tuffrock Stockist

KB EQUINE will be back up and running by the 7th of January 🤍🐴

My inbox is still open though I will be a little slower to reply than normal.

I look forward to seeing you all again in the new year!!!

19/12/2024

Consistency is key 🔑 & perfection is overrated 🐎

Trying to get things perfect sometimes becomes micromanaging, horses aren’t perfect, neither are we- Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “a bit more”
Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “consistency”

Our bodyworkers aren’t miracle workers, your horse can’t get better in just one session- consistently is key 🔑

If you can’t book a massage for your horse every 6-8 weeks, book one every 3 months. Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “a bit more”

If you can’t do carrot stretches 4 times per week, do them 2 times per week🥕
If you don’t have any hills for hill work to walk your horse up and down, improvise and try add a routine of backing your horse up 15 steps x 3 a few times per week.
Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “a bit more”

If you can’t ride/ exercise your horse everyday, do it once to twice per week and do it properly.
Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “a bit more”

Horses will have their conformation flaws, and it’s up to us to help them through them and enhance their ability around them as much as possible to allow a sounder future.

Remember- Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “a bit more”
Don’t strive for perfection, just strive for “consistency”

18/12/2024

17/12/2024

11/12/2024

‘Twas a racehorse kinda day 👌🐴

08/12/2024

The lovely Mimi 🙌🏻🫅

Her owners bought her a red light neck pad. The red light neck pad is very versatile and can be used over the back and rump to!

Red light therapy is non-invasive therapy. It's often used in conjunction with other treatments such as hands on bodywork, Equissage, PEMF and many other modalities.

Red light therapy can have many benefits for horses, including:
- Pain relief
Red light therapy can help with pain relief by triggering the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers.

- Reduced inflammation
Red light therapy can help reduce inflammation by increasing serotonin production.

- Improved healing
Red light therapy can help with healing by increasing blood flow, which brings more nutrients and oxygen to the area. It can also help stimulate the formation of new capillaries.

- Reduced stress and anxiety
Red light therapy can help reduce stress and anxiety by promoting the production of serotonin and reducing cortisol levels.

- Improved tissue repair
Red light therapy can help with tissue repair by penetrating tissues and promoting healing at the cellular level.

- Improved performance
Red light therapy can help horses achieve greater comfort and improved performance by addressing poll tension.

- Relaxed muscles
Red light therapy can help horses relax their muscles, making them looser and more supple in training.

I am a strong believer in red light therapy and love its benefits with the non invasive nature- more photos to come in wound care with red light 🚦