Pampashire Animal Manual Therapies

10/02/2025

🫶 Do more of what makes them happy✨

✨ Musculoskeletal therapy focuses on improving your pet’s movement, flexibility, and comfort by treating the muscles, joints, and soft tissues of the body. It’s a holistic, hands-on approach designed to enhance the musculoskeletal system’s function and relieve pain.
This is more than just pampering—it’s about addressing the root cause of discomfort, promoting healing, and ensuring your pet’s long-term health and mobility.

☎️ Book your appointment today and take their wellbeing to the next level

☎️ 07769253767

📍 Based in Ringwood, covering Dorset, Hampshire and South Wilsh*te

💻 www.pampashireanimaltherapies.com

Lara Munoz, Cert ESMT, IAAT Member

10/02/2025

💥SOLD OUT💥
🙏🏻 Wow!! Thank you so much everyone for making a dream come true!!

🏆I’ve never imagined I could SOLD OUT a clinic in just 20 minutes!!

🏆Will be the first time running a clinic this complete and with so many participants, it feels like yesterday when I was just teaching classes for 6 people max
I can’t be more proud of this achievement 🩵

Thank you everyone for your support and trust

🙏🏻 And of course, thanks so much .tooley.16 for the help organising the event, providing the space and making it possible!

💪🏼For many more to come!

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Lara Munoz, Cert ESMT, IAAT member

06/02/2025

💪 Ready to help your horse, dog, or small animal feel their best? 🐴🐶🐱

As an Animal Musculoskeletal Therapist, member of the IAAT, I specialize in more than just pampering—I focus on improving movement, relieving pain, and enhancing performance. Whether it's a horse recovering from competition, a dog with joint stiffness, or a pet needing better mobility, my treatments are designed to support your animal’s health and overall wellbeing.

Using techniques like Swedish massage, deep tissue therapy, myofascial release, kinesiology taping, and mobilization, I tailor each session to address your animal’s specific needs. The goal is to optimize movement, boost circulation, and promote recovery, ensuring your animal can move freely, feel great, and enjoy life to the fullest.

📣 I now offer musculoskeletal care for dogs and other small animals, ensuring pain-free movement and a better quality of life for your beloved pets.

✨ Your animals deserve more than just a pampering session—they deserve the best care for their wellbeing and performance!

📞 Contact me today to book a session or learn more about how I can support your animal’s movement health.

💻 To discover more about our services and events, visit:
Www.pampashireanimaltherapies.com

📞 07769 253767
📍 Based in Ringwood, covering Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire

📱 Follow me on social media to stay up to date with upcoming events, clinics, and workshops throughout the year! These will help you better understand your horse and take your bond to the next level.

Lara Munoz, Certified Animal Musculoskeletal Therapist, Specializing in Equine & Canine Soft Tissue and Rehabilitation, Lameness, and Musculoskeletal Health. IAAT Member,

05/02/2025

🤩 It’s Official – We Are Now Pampashire Animal Manual Therapies! 🎉

✨ After teasing and announcing the big news for a while, we are thrilled to officially share that we have rebranded from ARG Equine to Pampashire Animal Manual Therapies! This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter, and we’re so grateful to have you all along for the journey.

🫶 ARG Equine will always be a significant part of our history, representing our deep passion for equine wellness. Over the years, we’ve helped horses feel their best, supported their well-being, and formed lasting relationships with animals and their owners. We’ve seen firsthand how quality care can make a world of difference.

💪 As we’ve grown, so has our mission. We are now expanding our services to dogs and small animals, allowing us to help even more pets live pain-free, healthy lives. Our new name, Pampashire, reflects this exciting growth, but our core commitment remains the same: to ensure the wellness and happiness of every animal we work with.

📍 We’re proud to be based in Ringwood, and we’re excited to offer our expertise to the surrounding communities of Hampshire, Dorset, and South Wiltshire. But our mission doesn’t stop there! We’re expanding our reach globally—participating in events, running clinics, attending festivals, and even teaching courses abroad in Latin America. We believe animal wellness should be a worldwide priority, and we are committed to ensuring that all animals live pain-free lives and have strong, positive relationships with their owners.

Our passion for animal well-being goes far beyond just local care—it’s a global mission. Thank you for your continued support as we take our work to new places and new levels. Together, we’re helping animals thrive, wherever they are. 🐴🐶🐾

👉 Does your horse, dog, or pet need expert care? Don’t wait until discomfort becomes a bigger issue—book a session with us today and give them the treatment they deserve! Contact us now and let’s start their journey to a healthier, happier life.

📢 For our Spanish-speaking community, we also have Pampashire en Español! 🌎🐾 We are excited to bring our expertise to Latin America, offering courses and education to spread animal wellness worldwide.

Here’s to the future of animal wellness with Pampashire Animal Manual Therapies—now and always! 🌍💖

Lara Munoz, Cert ESMT, Cert Equine Lameness and rehab, IAAT Member

04/02/2025

✨Polework and Biomechanics Clinic ✨

✅I can’t believe it clinic got SOLD OUT in just 30min of creating this event!!
I’m so excited to see everyone on the 6th of April and have so much fun learning together and help you to understand your horse better!

🤩What an honour ! Thank you so much everyone 🩵

01/02/2025

🩵Exciting Changes Ahead! 🌟

You’ve probably seen some of the posts and stories I’ve been sharing lately—some in Spanish, and some with the teaser “coming soon”. Well, here’s the big news:

From February, ARG Equine will no longer exist and will officially become Pampashire! 🎉

The Spanish stories were for my Hispanic followers, who can now join me on the Pampashire Spanish account, where I’ll be offering online services, including courses and mentorships. And for those in Argentina, I’ll be coming to offer face-to-face appointments in November! 🇦🇷

For my UK followers, Pampashire will now be the new name and face of my services here. You’ll see me expanding beyond horses—I’ll also be treating dogs and other animals! 🐶🐴 I can’t wait to share more with you all and take this exciting journey to new heights!

Your support is what keeps my business alive and growing! If you’re excited for these changes, please:

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Lara Muñoz, Cert ESMT, IAAT member

31/01/2025

✨We are Expanding, so we will re brand to Pampashire Animal Manual Therapies✨

👉🏻Dogs treatments from February 👈🏼

27/01/2025

🎉 Good News, Ringwood! ARG EQUINE is Expanding! 🎉

I’m excited to announce that ARG EQUINE is growing to include treatments for dogs! 🐾 As part of this exciting new chapter, we’ll be rebranding as "Pampashire Animal Manual Therapies", reflecting our commitment to helping more animals feel and move their best😄

✨ Starting 17/02, I’ll be offering canine massage treatments, bringing the same care and expertise I’ve provided for horses to your beloved dogs. 🐶✨

Whether your dog is:
✅ Stiff or sore after walks or play.
✅ Recovering from an injury or surgery.
✅ A senior who needs a little extra help staying mobile.
✅ Active and energetic, and you want to prevent injuries and keep them in top shape.
✅ Or simply deserves to feel their best…

Massage therapy can make a huge difference by:
✔️ Easing muscle tension and pain.
✔️ Supporting recovery and healing.
✔️ Improving flexibility and mobility.
✔️ Enhancing overall wellness and happiness.

📅 Appointments Open 17/02!
📍 Serving Ringwood and surrounding areas.
💰 £45 per session (tailored to your dog’s individual needs).

👉 Spots are limited, so don’t wait—message me today to book your appointment or learn more about how I can help your furry friend thrive! 🐕💛

Lara Munoz, Cert ESMT, IAAT member

24/01/2025

*THIS 👇🏼👇🏼‼️‼️
‼️Keep the nose in front, always!✅

A horse that keeps its nose in front of the vertical position will always maintain a more consistent contact and position than a horse that is behind the vertical position. It does not matter if the face of the horse is at 95 degrees or 60 degrees; what matters is that the position matches the horse's level of training and that they are comfortable and trusting of the rider's soft contact. The less advanced horse will have its nose more forward with a longer neck.

A horse with its nose in front will be more willing to go forward with active and flexible haunches that help give the horse a swing that goes through their body all the way to the rider's receiving hand.

Horses that have their nose on the vertical will often go behind the bit for short moments. This causes the horse to over-flex in the poll and at C3 in the neck. This position prevents the horse from being able to push actively enough from the hind end to create a strong rhythm through their body, and they will end up with very short, slow, and weak gaits that leave the horse on the forehand.

A horse held behind the vertical position with force will be over-flexed in the poll, its neck at C3 and back, causing the haunches to always trail behind the movement and travel low to the ground. The force of the rider's hands causes the front legs to lift rather than step forward. The inability of the haunches to flex and push prevents any sort of rhythm and suppleness from happening and leaves the horse on the forehand.

A horse should eagerly push from the haunches and be received by the hands of the rider, which helps set the necessary position. The hands of the rider should not pull back to set the position.

21/01/2025

Haha! Happy 45th of January everyone! Nearly there 🥲😂

20/01/2025

❌Crazy stuff going on out there❌
Please please educate yourself before attempting to create “new ways of training”! They only cause harm to horses and label you as a torturer 🤦🏻‍♀️
I can’t think of a reason why you would force a horse to work this way, tying up his tail to his nose, is it because this people think it will teach them to work on leg yield? Bending?
These things can’t be forced! Same as you can’t sit straight on a chair tying up a stick on your back!
And even if you do tie a stick to your back, we as humans can understand we force ourselves to use something and be conscious of the effort that that specific action takes, hence we can consciously straight up our back, look forward and maintain that posture for certain amount of time. Still, that doesn’t force you to use your abs to actually being able to maintain a straight posture, only causes you to use the wrong muscles in your back to stop feeling uncomfortable with a stick behind!
My point here is that a horse or any animal can’t consciously make a group of muscles work forcing him against his willing, they are prey animals and they don’t understand what you want them to do, they don’t know how to consciously engage muscles and of course they don’t know about bending or straightness.
You need to introduce this things GRADUALLY, from a very gentle approach so they don’t try to spook or get frightened. They don’t know they need to adapt better posture for their benefit.
However, it seems like this “trainer” doesn’t understand about posture either, what it takes and how to achieve it.

Please educate yourself instead of leading to more injured horses

Lara Munoz, Cert ESMT, Cert Equine lameness and rehab, IAAT member

18/01/2025

👎🏼👎🏼 Outrageous 👎🏼❌
More training from anatomical perspective and equine welfare please

18/01/2025

Another post of those that I always say I will never stop sharing.
This type of cases have name: Broken at the third.
This means the neck “brakes” at the third Cervical vertebrae in order to be able to keep carrying such a bad posture and pressure the rider causes.
Keep reading the post, all riders, horse owners, trainers and every person working with horses should know horse anatomy to not cause them harm!

As an avid learner of correct biomechanics of the horse I subscribed a while back to Becks Nairn’s Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/Becks_nairn/posts) I cannot recommend it highly enough. It has been such an eye opener and until I can get to an actual dissection, her Patreon has given me so much food for thought.

Becks recently posted a video of a horse’s cervical spine with the nuchal liagament still attached. Seeing the movement aberrations of the neck created by riding horses behind the vertical, is something every rider needs to see for themselves IMHO.

There are numerous studies demonstrating that excessive flexion puts tension on the nuchal ligament, leading to a variety of injuries throughout the horses body. As riders, it’s critical to remember that the nuchal ligament inserts at the withers (its origin is at the external occipital protuberance at the occipital crest and posterior tubercle of the atlas). From its insertion at the withers, it attaches to the supraspinous ligament, which acts much like a suspension bridge and runs the entire length of the horses spine to the tail.

Armed with this important information it makes perfect sense that when the nuchal ligament is over tightened, as it is when riding behind vertical, it results in a host of physiological issues. Riding horses behind vertical does not take into consideration the anatomy of the horses spine and its subsequent supporting structures. This incorrect posture, such as when the horse’s neck shows this unnatural bend around C2/C3, can only lead to stress on these structures. Bones will adapt at attachment and insertion sites to the excessive loading and remodel, creating boney formations which, more often than not, cause our horses further pain and discomfort. (Photos of some of these remodeled bones in comments thanks to Becks!)

Keeping our horses sound and working can be a challenge on a good day. Having this information can help us in ensuring our horses stay sound for many years to come.

A huge thank you to Becks for entertaining my curiosity and being so generous with her knowledge and experience. ❤️

17/01/2025

I will keep sharing and saying it:

When I talk about ditching the restrictive training aids it’s not because I’m ‘crunchy‘..

It’s not because I don’t believe in riding horses or competing..

It’s not because I’m some holistic naturalist (okay fine maybe a little)..

It’s because I’m educated in equine anatomy and biomechanics.
I understand the concept of movement, the functionalities of the body and the detriment that outside stressors have on our horse’s bodies and minds.

I encounter MANY broken horses.
Many horses on the verge of injury.
Horses who display behavior problems.
Horses with anxiety, mental stress, coping behaviors etc.

Restrictive training aids- albeit, are only one piece of the puzzle- are doing DAMAGE to your horse in more ways than one.
A young (or old) equine body and mind trying to find its way. Trying to find balance, to build strength, to give the right answer to the question they’re being asked… all while being rigged up like a puppet in gear that makes it more difficult.

We throw too much at the horse in the name of ‘tradition’.
“My trainer told me to use this”
“The generations before me did it this way”
“All the top riders do this”

Well you want to know what else all of those 👆people have in common?

They have anxious, pain ridden, horses- I know, because I’m the one they call to try and fix them.

Everything is connected. The mind, body, lifestyle, tack, training etc.

Build foundations the right way so you don’t have to cut corners with restrictive gear that does more damage than good for your horse.

Signed- someone who is tired of fixing broken horses. X

16/01/2025

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