EquiFlexx Therapy

22/01/2025

⭐️⭐️ FIRST STABLE INSIGHT OF 2025⭐️⭐️

Excited to be back and bring you this exclusive webinar with both Emer & Cleo!

⚠️ EQUESTRIANS BEWARE: FACT OR FAD IN HORSE CARE

This webinar will gives you tools you need to look deeper at a product or service and critically analyse its credibility, authenticity and overall quality. DOES IT ACTUALLY WORK AND DO I NEED IT?

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💥New stable insights WEEKLY on the topics you want covered

21/01/2025

🤸🏼 What is core strength & stability and why does my horse have to have it?

Core stability and strength are essential for equine performance because the horse’s core acts as the foundation for balance, movement, and power.

🟢 Core Stability Promotes Postural Support
The core muscles stabilize the horse’s spine and maintain alignment during motion.
🟢This stability allows the horse to carry itself in a healthy posture, reducing strain on the back and neck while supporting the weight of a rider.

🟢Weak core muscles can lead to compensatory patterns, where other muscle groups or joints take on the strain, increasing the risk of issues like tendon strain, joint problems, and spinal disorders.

17/01/2025

⛓️ BITS: Tools, Not Weapons

A bit is meant to facilitate communication—not cause pain or harm. Incorrect use of a bit, whether through poor fitting, excessive pressure, or harsh designs, can lead to serious health issues, including:
🦷 Dental damage
🦷 Nerve injuries
🦷 Soft tissue injury
🦷 Behavioral problems due to pain

Every horse deserves a bit that fits properly and a rider who understands how to use it kindly and effectively. If a horse seems resistant or uncomfortable, it’s a sign to reassess training, tack, and approach—not to reach for a harsher tool.

Let’s educate ourselves, listen to our horses, and strive for humane horsemanship.

15/01/2025

⭐️ Celebs who use PEMF ⭐️

Lots if famous faces in sport have use PEMF as part of their training and recovery 🙌🏻

Have you ever wondered how professional athletes stay in peak condition and how they rehabilitate an injury so quickly?

13/01/2025

❄️ COLD MUSCLE FACTS ❄️

Outside temperatures can change how the musculoskeletal system behaves, effecting how our horses perform.

🔥 When muscles are properly warmed up, they are supple, pliable and elastic with better shock absorbtion properties

❄️ Cold muscles are rigid, with reduced elasticity and the shock absorbing properties are compromised. Injury and longer recovery is more likely

If you have ever done an intense workout at the gym 🏋🏻‍♀️ you will know what DOMS (Delayed onset muscle soreness) feels like. You can hardly get up out of bed the next day! Our horses feel that too!

What measure do you take to ensure your horse has a quick recovery?

12/01/2025

‼️‼️‼️‼️ IMPORTANT INFO ON EQUINE DENTAL TECHS AND WELFARE 🦷🦷

I have been wanting to post on this topic fir quite a while but I didnt know how to go about it in a respectful way, without offending anyone or summoning the keyboard warriors!! 🥷🏻

There are so many elements of our industry that are not regulated, including bodyworkers/therapists. Thats not to say there are good, experienced and qualified practitioners out there, but the good ones are drowning in the bad ones

I know their are dental techs in Ireland ILLEGALLY administering sedation. It happens. Who is supplying then with the medication???

If you can take anything away from this post….ONLY VETS can legally administer anaesthetic 💉💉💉

*** A VET MUST BE PRESENT FOR ANY AND EVERY WOLF TOOTH EXTRACTION ***

I’m a bit surprised that I should be having to write this post, as I would have hoped no horse owner would think it’s in any way acceptable to extract any tooth from any animal without local anaesthetic at the absolute least, and pain relief/sedation as gold standard. Horses feel pain just like us, and I’m very sure no person would happily have any of their teeth extracted with no local.

A very worrying comment was posted (and subsequently deleted by the OP) on my wolf tooth post last night, stating that their “horse dentist” had removed their horse’s wolf teeth. I replied that I very much hope that they meant their vet, or that their EDT was also a vet. No, they didn’t.

It is COMPLETELY ILLEGAL, not to mention a WELFARE issue for an EDT (“horse dentist”) to extract wolf teeth from your horse unless under the direct and continual supervision of a VET. This isn’t because we want to make money; it’s because we need to ensure your horse isn’t in a lot of pain whilst having the teeth extracted. We will SEDATE, inject LOCAL and unless the wolf teeth are really tiny, give an injection of PAIN RELIEF. There is also a very important artery that runs either side of the roof of the horse’s mouth, which would result in serious consequences if badly damaged by a slip during wolf tooth extraction; this is another one of the reasons that the horse must be sedated for the procedure.

EDTs are not allowed to remove “blind” (un-erupted) wolf teeth at any point, even with a vet present. To conclude; the extraction of wolf teeth should really be performed by your vet. If you would prefer your EDT to extract wolf teeth then you also need to ensure your vet is present to administer sedation/pain relief/local anaesthetic. It is ILLEGAL and a welfare concern for them to be extracted without a vet present. And, I would hope, common sense.

Please share, as this should be common knowledge.

11/01/2025

❄️ ❄️BEAT THE COLD ❄️❄️

10/01/2025

𝔽𝕦𝕟 𝔽𝕒𝕔𝕥 𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕪
Did you know that D to D measurements is a totally useless way of measuring saddle width? Cos the D rings can be placed anywhere on the saddle.
Pictured are two saddles - one is XW and the other is MW. They both have the same D to D measurement.

08/01/2025

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07/01/2025

🐴⭐️ FIRST STABLE INSIGHT ON 2025 ⭐️🐴

Does your horse hold its tail to one side?

In this latest feature, we look at the possible causes of an abnormal tail carriage and what are the best steps of action to take if this occurs.

“As horse owners and riders, we rely on subtle signs to guage how our equine partners are feeling. Consistently holding their tail to one side during ridden work can raise questions”

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06/01/2025

❄️❄️ Musculoskeletal health in the cold snap ❄️❄️

Your horse has been out of work for a few weeks but now its time to get back to fitness! In colder temperatures, muscles are not as supple or elastic, THIS is when your horse is more likely to pick up an injury 😓

DON’T GET CAUGHT OUT BY THE COLD ☃️🌨️

02/01/2025

✨🙌🏻🎆 Celebrating the NEW YEAR with special people

Back to normality tomorrow as I treat my first horse of 2025.

I had a fabulous time of celebrating Avril & Jason’s wedding on New Year’s Day. Avril was my first ever client when I started my Therapy business almost 4 years ago!! Since then, we have built a strong friendship 🩷

Last year, my horse pulled up lame just days before I was due to jump at the Dublin Horse Show, Avril was the first person I rang for support, the first thing she said when she answered the phone was “take my horse”. Having kind people in your work and personal life is what its all about 🤝🏻

Congratulations to Avril & Jason ✨🥂
(The flat shoes were not part of the original outfit!)

27/12/2024

🌉What does a horses back and the golden gate bridge have in common?

Why does a horses back need to be strong? It all comes down to simply physics….

Picture the horses body like a large suspension bridge. The forelimbs and hindlimbs act as the support pillars on either end. There is no structural connection between the first pillar and the main body of the bridge, just a series of strong ropes and cables (thoracic sling) ⛓️ The weakest part of the bridge is in the middle. THIS is where the rider would sit.

Also consider, the horse must carry the huge weight of its body cavity, suspended under the spine. THEN we place a 60-80kg rider and a saddle ontop of that. It is easy to see how so many horses suffer from back pain 😥

If there is simply not enough functional muscle strength in the back, the body becomes rigid, over loading other structures. Compensatory patterns developed over a period of time can eventually cause injury and lameness

How do you ensure your horse has functional back strength?

23/12/2024

🎅🏻🎄 Merry Christmas one and all 🎅🏻🎄

Hugely grateful to you all for supporting my business over the past year. A well deserved break now to recharge the batteries, ready to hit the ground running in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ to see some familiar faces and some new ones too 😀🐴

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas 🎄🎄

21/12/2024

👌🏼👏🏼👌🏼👏🏼👌🏼👏🏼👌🏼

Francis Connors is considered one of the greatest horsemen ever to come out of Ireland. In The Irish Field this weekend, he talks to Louise Parkes about his life and times and the philosophy behind his unique style of horsemanship

19/12/2024

📋✅ Equine Wellness Checklist for 2025

“Fail to prepare, prepare to fail”

Lots of horses are on their winter break after a long year of hard work and competing. What can we be doing to prepare for a busy 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣?

🍎 NUTRITION - Consult with a nutritionist (not a rep) about your horses diet for increased workload

🪱 WORKING PROGRAMME - I have noticed there is some confusion around what wormers to use and when. Random worm dosing throughout the year is not an effective parasite control strategy. For followers in IRE - .d_equiservice . For NI contact

🌊 FITNESS & JOINT HEALTH - Couch to competition? We wouldn’t run a marathon after lying on the sofa all Christmas, so why should we expect our horses to? I cannot recommend WATER TREADMILL training enough!! Contact

👐🏻 PHYSICAL THERAPY - There are so many great practitioners, physios amd bodyworkers out there using a range of therapy modalities, find one that works for your horse to improve their overall musculoskeletal health, potentially saying you on vet bills later in the year!! 💸💸💸

🦶🏻FARRIERY - I cannot stress enough how inportant it is to have an experienced farrier! Its litterally life changing! If the feet are not right, chances are, the rest of the body wont be

🟤 SADDLE FIT - One of the number one causes of pain and injury I see is caused by POOR SADDLE FIT. If your horses back is braced duebto pain or shoulder movement is restricted, this will have a knock on affect to the rest of the body

Have you ticked all the boxes on your wellness checklist? ✅✅✅✅

19/12/2024

🔥🔥NEW STABLE INSIGHT 🔥🔥

WATCH NOW: Essential Equine Anatomy - Shoulder & Thoracic Sling for performance

Join Emer as she discusses shoulder anatomy and function for performance. TIPS on how to maintain and improve shoulder & thoracic sling health for better, stronger performance 💪🏻

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