Arbutus Equine Massage

03/20/2024

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02/24/2024

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Clubs!! Who doesn’t love a raffle!

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⭐️⭐️ VIQHA FUNDRAISER FOR THE GLACIER CLASSIC (JULY 6-7, 2024)⭐️⭐️

A $500 gift certificate for the Trading Post in Cassidy.

Tickets are $10 each or 3/$25

Please contact Candy if you would like to purchase tickets @ [email protected]

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Draw will be on March 17th @ 7pm pst.

02/15/2024

VIQHA raffle, win a $500 gift certificate for the Trading Post in Cassidy!

02/14/2024

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⭐️⭐️ VIQHA FUNDRAISER FOR THE GLACIER CLASSIC (JULY 6-7, 2024)⭐️⭐️

A $500 gift certificate for the Trading Post in Cassidy.

Tickets are $10 each or 3/$25

Please contact Candy if you would like to purchase tickets @ [email protected]

Put raffle in the subject line.

Draw will be on March 17th @ 7pm pst.

11/13/2023

💥Why Continuing Education is a No-Brainer for Me 💥

1. More tools for my toolbox. It helps me stay abreast of the latest and greatest in equine therapy and allows me to provide more effective and specialized care.
2. Instills confidence in my ability to provide the most up to date care within my scope.
3. Adaptation. Bodywork has evolved significantly just in the time I have been doing it. Continuing education allows me to remain informed and provide the highest standard of care for the horses I have the privilege of working with.
4. I love to learn. 🙂

09/26/2023

⭐️⭐️⭐️BIG ANNOUNCEMENT⭐️⭐️⭐️ Super excited to share I am part of the “Hestaband Instructors team”. I will be starting to teach “Equine Kinesiology Taping Basics” in early 2024. The 2 day course is geared towards owners, riders, coaches and trainers. By the end of the second day students will understand how kinesiology tape works, and be able to tape basic applications on their own horses.

Class sizes are limited to ensure attendees get the the most out of the course.

If you are interested in hosting a course at your barn, please reach out.

09/20/2023

🔴 Stay Within Scope and Do No Harm 🔴

This sounds like a no brainer right? 🤔

Interestingly it seems to be something that is a bit more complicated than you would think. 😬

Where I live we have no regulatory body for alternative care (massage, acupressure, chiropractic) for animals. It makes it a bit of the Wild West here. It can be a bit challenging to navigate which is why I follow the principle of “do no harm” and in some cases that means:

✅ Doing nothing
✅ Referrals

This ALWAYS means:

✅ Staying within my scope of work (I do not prescribe or diagnose)
✅ Managing expectations

I always try to gather information in advance of coming to a facility to enable me to get a picture of what is going on. I have left farms without doing a session as I had concerns that was what going on required veterinary care not a bodyworker. Was the client happy? Nope, they were actually pretty mad, but I am ok with someone being mad at me as my interest is in the well being of the animal.

I am not a veterinarian, nor am I a magician. I cannot make your horse sound, stop a colic or “fix” your horse.

I can:

✅ Help to optimize performance
✅ Assist in exercise recovery

09/19/2023

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08/23/2023

Interesting

07/21/2023

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06/29/2023

Great read!

05/29/2023

All breed & AQHA show in beautiful Courtney!

03/12/2023

When they say it takes a village, it really does. Thank you so much Ruth Sweet, , , and last but not least

02/12/2023

What a great post… 🙂

12/14/2022

Happy International Horse Day! I have been blessed with great horses in my life. Grateful for them all ❤️. I have learned so much from each and every one of them.

11/17/2022

Have you Hugged your horse today?

10/13/2022

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Arbutus Equine Massage shared a post on Instagram: "Let’s talk about mental health. Horses are social creatures. Buster is quite a social guy. He loves to play and face fight with his besties. He also loves his ball. ...

09/21/2022

3 cheers for ktape!! 🤸‍♀️Simple applications can provide benefit and is a great complementary modality to chiropractic sessions. One modality, many applications!