Oakwood Veterinary Physiotherapy

07/01/2025

Last appointments available for January 🐴🐶

Drop me a message to book
📱07892793832

06/01/2025

Pole work inspiration 🐴

Perfect in hand exercise to help flexibility and suppleness.

Always consult your veterinary physiotherapist before attempting new exercises.

30/12/2024

Pole work inspiration 🐴

Make the circle smaller and larger over the poles to allow the horse to adjust their stride length.

Always consult your veterinary physiotherapist before attempting new exercises.

27/12/2024

Introducing a new easy way to arrange an appointment. Just fill in the form and we will be in touch with appointment options🐴🐶

Please click the link to complete this form.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas🎄Thank you to all clients old and new for the support this year! Exciting things to come in 2025 🌟

24/12/2024

Lovely to see clients already doing yesterdays pole exercise 🐴 Marie Johnson

23/12/2024

Pole work inspiration 🐴

A nice simple layout that can be done in hand or ridden in both walk and trot. This will help improve flexibility, engagement and proprioception!

Always consult your veterinary physiotherapist before attempting new exercises.

18/12/2024

Last minute decision to work over the Christmas period means I have availability between the 23rd and 29th of December! Perfect time to treat your dog or horse to a massage 🐶🐴

These appointments are open to new and existing clients.

To book please drop me a message
📱07892793832
💻[email protected]

07/12/2024

04/12/2024

28/10/2024

🦇 Last few days to make the most of this offer! 🦇

Offer ends 31/10/24

18/10/2024

⭐️Scattered poles⭐️

Placing poles at different angles and distances is a great way of helping improve your horses proprioception while also improving engagement.

16/10/2024

Laser therapy is one of my favourite modalities to use, here’s why!

15/09/2024

I hear this phrase ALL the time and every time I do my heart breaks for the horse in question.

It is a very big misconception in the industry that pain can be ruled out in the horse.

What leads to this statement can also vary drastically from person to person.

The horse might have had a quick muscle palpation, they might have just been scoped for ulcers, or they might have had a very extensive (and expensive!) veterinary work up over days or months.

Regardless, you cannot rule out pain. You might not be able to find a source, but you cannot rule out pain.

Ask any human who has not received an immediate diagnosis for their pain or not been listened to regarding their own health concerns.

Pain does not have a blood test or a specific color or feel.

Pain can be obvious, it can be concealed, it can be complex, it can be poorly understood.

There are certain things, like gastric ulcers, that can be definitively ruled in or out as a SOURCE of pain with a gastroscopy.

But it is the horse’s behavior that says whether pain is or isn’t present. And unfortunately, very often pain in the horse is not a simple thing to diagnose and cure.

When a trainer, owner, rider, or vet says “we have ruled out pain” it is often an invitation to train the horse with harsher methods to overcome performance or behavioral problems.

If the horse refuses to do something, doesn’t cooperate, struggles with tasks, has a change in behavior, or exhibits behaviors that have been scientifically studied to indicate pain in the horse (such as the equine discomfort ethogram and ridden horse pain ethogram)….ALWAYS keep in mind that just because it can’t be located, DOES NOT mean a horse is not in pain.

09/09/2024

‼️CANCELLATION POLICY‼️

Unfortunately due to appointments being rescheduled or cancelled last minute I will be introducing a cancellation policy. Letting me know more than 48 hours prior to the appointment allows me to offer the appointment to other clients.

Cancellations within 48 hours of the scheduled appointment will be charged at 50%.

Any cancellations within 24 hours of the scheduled appointment will be charged at full price.

Payments due to cancellations will be required in full before a future appointment can be booked.

11/08/2024

August availability
⭐️ 16th - PM (Pen*stone)
⭐️ 18th - AM
⭐️ 20th - PM
⭐️ 26th - AM/PM
⭐️ 30th - PM (Leeds)

Drop me a message to book in or with any questions. If you don’t see your area or a date you require please get in contact and I will do my best to fit you in. 🐴🐶

28/06/2024