Pain & Wellness Solutions -Equine & small animals

10/18/2024

You are in the right spot for pain management and wellness solutions. Start your journey to healing with body work. Back pain, plantar fasciitis and more.

10/14/2024

09/26/2024

09/13/2024

When things feel good. You go ahhhh.

09/11/2024

Love learning.

09/03/2024

Feet are so important.

Every horse owner, practitioner, and trainer should keep track of whether their horse’s hooves are regenerating or degenerating.

Boon, 6 year old Quarterhorse
Front left
Pulled shoes at 4 years old
This is 2 years progress building true heel...regenerating live tissue not preserving dead heel horn.

This horse was beginning to develop sheared heels due to his conformation, and/or from the effects of imbalanced trimming with fixed, rigid, steel, shoes that were restricting growth and movement.

The bottom left photo ( pre trim ) reveals how he is currently loading and wearing the medial heel ( left side in photo ) more than the lateral heel. You can also see that he does the opposite at the toe pillars. He is breaking over with more weight on the diagonal lateral toe pillar, causing this side to wear more. Steel shoes prevent wear but the wear is needed at the bottom of the wall to keep the rest of the horse properly balanced to their dynamic individual physiological needs. These needs evolve through rehab and up through the stages of continual development so the trimming needs to evolve as well. Steel shoes cause everything else above the shoes to jam up, twist, and contort. The wall grows about 1 mm every 3 days. 1 mm of vertical imbalance at the ground equates to 3-4 cm of horizontal compensation at the hips and wither on an average sized horse. That means if the trimmer/farrier has a 1 mm margin of error when setting a shoe there’s going to gradually be more by the next shoeing cycle. If nobody is noticing and correcting for the changes above the shoe then they get magnified over time. Without a fixed shoe, the trimmer/farrier can make frequent minimal corrections that improve the horse’s comfort and way of going, gradually improving their overall balance over time.

These corrections have taken me 2 years and we still have a ways to go. This horse hasn’t been classified as “lame” because he’s been able to gallop around during this transition but he has been very stiff and he has had a hard time standing for trimming. That’s where I feel it. He is finally loosening up and finding his natural way of going. This same process can be applied to older horses with even later stages of trimmer/farrier caused crookedness but it typically comes at more of a price for the horse, the owner, and the corrective trimmer/farrier...difficult rehabs are hard on everyone.

(David Landreville, 2019)

08/26/2024

Bucking? Sore back? Can't pick up a certain lead?

The body holds patterns of pain which leads to unwanted learned behaviours. Pain & Wellness Solutions can help!

👉 During and after a treatment the body begins to shift skeletal, muscular and organs resulting in a balanced body.

👉 Correcting the conformational and postural issues creates positive behaviour

08/14/2024

A common question I get is, "How long did it take you to learn all this stuff?"

My answer is, "I'll let you know when I'm done. I'm still working on it."

There is always something to learn. The body is fascinating.

08/11/2024

Would you like to be in optimal shape when it is your turn to perform? Be proactive ❗not reactive 🤯

👉unbalanced rider makes an uncomfortable horse
👉unbalanced horse makes a rider not sit properly
👉balanced rider and horse = optimal performance

Give you and your horse some Bowen therapy, musculoskeletal and myofascial unwinding.

07/29/2024

The History of Bowen
Thomas Ambrose Bowen (1916-1982) began developing his technique in the 1950s in Geelong, Australia. He became interested in ways to alleviate human suffering. He began to notice that certain moves on the body had particular effects.

He continued to develop and refine the technique throughout his lifetime with the help of his friend and secretary, Rene Horwood.

Mr. Bowen was extremely busy in his Geelong clinic, performing about 13,000 treatments a year. This was verified by 1975 Victorian govern­ment inquiry into alternative health care professionals. Mr. Bowen also held free clinics for children, people with disabilities, and community service workers.

Bowen left behind a complex legacy and wealth of information. At least six men can lay some claim to being “disciples” of his work. Each was able to observe Bowen at different times in his working life. Each developed a personal interpretation of the approach and methods Bowen used. Each of these men has previous training in either being a chiropractor, osteopath or massage therapist.

Through natural progression of science and technology, these men and their followers have taken Bowen to a higher level of understanding of how our body is connected.

I am very proud to be a Bowen Practitioner because of these fine men and women who have put Bowen on the map as a therapeutic modality that has helped so many people.