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The Irish Equine Rehabilitation and Fitness centre

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The Irish Equine Rehabilitation and Fitness centre

A purpose built state of the art bespoke Equine Rehabilitation & fitness centre.
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Offering water treadmill with incline, cold saltwater spa, cryogenics, dry salt therapy and post operative care and ancillary rehab services such as tens, etc as required.

13/11/2024

We use this device alongside our water treadmill with exercise Protocols and with www.Equinetendon.com on site every couple of weeks progress can easily be monitored using the UTC scanner to assess healing rates.

13/11/2024

The yard cat is working hard today!!

10/11/2024

07/11/2024

Offer still running!

04/11/2024

Saltroom livery offer still running 3 sessions over 3 days plus 2 nights livery for £120 only!!

04/11/2024

Livery spaces available for Rehabilitation, Post Operative Care or Fitness

Using water treadmill, cryogenics, dry salt therapy, and shockwave or pemf can also be organised

31/10/2024

We're at the Down Royal Racecourse tomorrow if anyone wants to stop by for a chat about rehab or fitness using the water treadmill, spa, cryo or saltroom - or just come say 'Hello'!!

25/10/2024

It's the time of year for Dry Salt Therapy sessions to keep airways clean!
What you need to know:-
* 3 x 30min sessions are required within 7 days to kick start the immune system.
* the equipment and salt need to be warm for the salt to micronise and blow properly.
* the stable needs to be as air tight as possible.
* the salt used needs to be a mineralised enriched salt

Our price is £30 per 30 minute session (discounts for blocks of 4, 6 or 8 sessions at 10%, 15% and 20% respectively with no expiry date and can be used for multiple horses)
* stand in comfort in the heated viewing room and watch your equine through the viewing window
* or stand in with your equine and benefit from a free session
* if 2 equines will go sensibly in together or be held its just £40 for both
* open 8am to 7pm for saltroom sessions
* 3 day saltroom livery just £120 Inc ad-lib haylage

21/10/2024

Christmas & New Year livery bookings now being taken!!

Want to keep your horse in work over the festive period while you are away. Send them to us for treadmill livery.

20/10/2024

Read about the significance and prevalence of these injuries and how veterinarians diagnose them.

19/10/2024

To be honest more needs to be done with the racehorses with appropriate and proper rehabitation as many with tendon or suspensory injuries are put out to retirement by trainers and owners and this doesn't need to always be the case. Active and aggressive rehab will have them back to work inside a few months but it costs money!
Prehab needs to be the first port of call after a race with UTC scans / cryo / cold saltwater spa etc to see if there have been any detrimental effects of running a race - this is essential to show if training needs to be eased off or changed before there is a career ending injury. Trainers need to be much more pro active in this area.

We provide all of these services and some do use us regularly for prehab but not enough. Prehab would extend careers and cut down the casualties without a doubt.

Upon retirement often rehab is required as the first port of call even before retraining yet owners will not always pay to do this, mentally the difference in lifestyle often becomes detrimental and the learning curve for the thoroughbred is steep into a new riding career. Even the way they are fed and shod is completely different. Many leave racing with ulcers and lameness but they just need tlc, and time and exercise. They should be sent to the likes of ourselves to make the transition and to receive assessments, rehab if needed and tlc to acclimatise to a different life.

16/10/2024

Fitness, rehabilitation or post operative care livery available.
Our large stables are on a bespoke, state of the art, airy, modern yard, where there is access to specialist lameness experts, remedial farriers, and body workers, if required.

We create bespoke, individual plans for each horse which can include
* water treadmill
* cold saltwater spa
* dry salt therapy
* nebuliser
* cryogenics
* PEMF °
* Shockwave °
(°can be arranged as required)

We have
* a 50ft covered lunge pen
* an arena with anti concussion surface

We also have
* turn out paddocks (all weather and carpet chop of varying sizes)
* ad lib organic hay and haylage ( can be steamed)
* hotwash, solarium, etc
* cctv on stables; and
* experienced and dedicated staff providing high levels of care!

13/10/2024

Fantastic results for our sponsored rider Annie Gibson with Dasca who won the 1.30 at met Olivia this weekend. Well done 👏

05/10/2024

Halloween ready 👻

29/09/2024

We use this regularly in our rehab

28/09/2024

Book in for a pemf with Emer I can honestly say it has made a difference to both my horses mobility so next clinic I've 3 booked in with her!!

Address

6 Aghalee Road, Lower Ballinderry
Lisburn
BT282JN

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 8pm
Tuesday	8am - 8pm
Wednesday	8am - 8pm
Thursday	8am - 8pm
Friday	8am - 8pm
Saturday	8am - 8pm
Sunday	8am - 8pm

Website

http://Www.ierfc.co.uk/

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Why we don't nappy horses on the water treadmill, we want : - a true reflection of gait and tracking up - a better rotation and swing of pelvis - a better range of movement of hind legs & - no weight hanging on their hind end in the inevitable event of a poop! Vs Wearing a nappy - inhibits rotation and swing of pelvis - inhibits tracking up - inhibits range of movement of hind legs, & - places an unnatural weight if they do poop!

Cold saltwater spa time! Helps freshen up hard working legs, epsom salt and pure salt rich and 2.5° - that's very cold!

When they're so little and the spa nappy is too big there's no option but to get in with them!!

CASE STUDY Grade 1 Racehorse sent to us from a yard in England to rehab with an extensive core lesion having been ultra sound scanned and told to boxrest for 12 weeks and then put to the field and out for a minimum of a year! That's not how we do things about here!! You must be proactive with tendons and ligaments to achieve optimum healing WITHOUT scarring :- Week 1 we applied cryogenics several times a day for 7 days to reduce inflammation; Beginning of Week 2 a UTC scan from Equinetendon.com to show exactly what damage had been sustained - a large and lengthy core lesion. PRP was administered by equineathleteinternational.com and then over to #ierfc to undertake further rehab work using the Dss tendon support system using dry treadmill sessions, cryogenics, and walking and trotting in hand. At the end of Week 3 there was a followup UTC scan which shows a 70%+ reduction in both lesion and fibre disruption!! Weeks 4 and 5 work was ramped up in time and cryogenics reduced. A further UTC scan showed a 90% improvement by the end of Week 5. #equinerehab #healing #prp #treadmill Utc scans are in the comments to see the improvement. Work continues with adjusted settings and loading on the DSS boot. A modified schedule for weeks 6-9, and a further UTC scan scheduled for the end of Week 9 What is the goal - back to ridden canter work end September and racing next season again! Watch this space ...

Thanks to Karen and Mary for their donation of apples today, a wee treat in dinners for our rehabbing patients over the next couple of days!

Thanks to Sean Cooney and Botanica for the continued support to IERFC ...and the new banner!!

We had a great return visit from the Animal Science Faculty today, its been 2 years since they last came. Always happy to welcome students and take questions.