The Winning Edge

05/04/2024

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03/09/2024

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08/08/2023

Offering a variety of body work to the SE VA and NE NC areas

*Massage
*Craniosacral
*Red light/laser
*Thermal imaging
*Kinesiology taping
*Cupping
*IASTM
*Aculife
*Equissage gun
*Chiro

07/20/2023

Benefits of Kinesiology Tape

✔️Pain Management
✔️Shortened Recovery Time
✔️Stabilize Weak Areas
✔️Decrease Swelling
✔️Proprioception
✔️Engagement
✔️Decompress Fascia
✔️Support Joints
✔️Decrease Fatigue
✔️Support Muscles
✔️Relax Trigger Points
✔️Reduce Edema
and MORE!

07/13/2023

🔥SERVICES OFFERED🔥

*Full Body Sports Massage with Craniosacral session - $75

*IASTM/Cupping session - $50 whole body. Single location $10

*Kinesiology Tape Application - Prices start at $5 and go up depending on the application

*Thermal Imaging - $10 (single location, ex. leg, hoof, etc)

*Thermal Imaging Body Scan - $50

*Thermal Imaging Post Ride Scan - $25 (Must do scan prior to ride, this is a add on to help locate saddle fit issues or problem areas)

*Red Light Therapy - $20 (Single location plus poll cap)

*Equi-Release Massager Session- $25

*Chiropractic Adjustment - $40

*Lifewave Patching - $12 per set of patches.

*The Works Package - $125 (Includes massage/craniosacral plus all other therapies needed during the visit, excluding post ride thermal imaging)

-Trip fee not included in above prices.

06/08/2023

03/13/2023

📚 Check out this research on tape!

👉🏻 Tape is just as effective as dry needling for improving pain and motion in trigger points.

Trigger points are tender, tight, painful, knots in the muscle that cause pain and restrict motion.

Tape is a much less invasive option that allows horse owners to help their horses without the extensive education of using a needle to puncture the tissue.

I’m a huge advocate of dry needling. But it’s excellent to have some evidence that shows a less invasive option can be just as effective.

👉🏻 Objective: To compare the effectiveness of the kinesio taping and dry needling methods in patients with trigger-point related myofascial pain syndrome of the upper trapezius muscle

👉🏻 Results: There was a significant improvement in pain intensity at rest and cervical motion, and in function in both groups, with no superiority to either.

👉🏻 Conclusions: Kinesio taping may be a choice of trigger point inactivation in patients who do not want to be needled or who show contraindication(s) to treatments other than kinesio taping.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30883331/

03/08/2023

Stabilizing the SI

When you stabilize the SI joints you provide the area with external support of the internal anatomy. This allows the body to use the support to reduce the stress on the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. This allows the body to heal!

When the body is kept in the bio-mechanic "right" place the internal inflammation and stress is reduced encouraging the body to naturally heal, strengthen, and create muscle memory.

You can use this application:

✔️After a chiropractic adjustment and bodywork
✔️After an SI injection or other rear limb injection
✔️While conditioning after time off or injury
✔️If your horse has weakness in the rear end
✔️If your horse palpates sore in the SI or glutes area
✔️During physical excursion to reduce SI injury
✔️While trailering

03/08/2023

RED LIGHT THERAPY

Red light is beneficial for:

✔️inflammation
✔️Pain
✔️Recovery
✔️Skin
✔️Brain health
✔️Calming
✔️Energy
✔️Performance
✔️Healing
✔️Circulation

The red light works by stimulating the body’s natural healing process by increasing ATP production in the mitochondria.

Such a simple, non-invasive, hugely beneficial tool

12/19/2022

If tape helps with pain, will the pain return once the tape is removed?

It could, it will likely be less pain than before because the purpose is the tape is to break the pain cycle.

Tape minimizes pain by decompressing nociceptors.

Nociceptors are receptors that live under the skin at the base of the hair and their job is to communicate pain to the brain.

Tape will communicate with the nervous system to create long term
change, it is not a mask for pain.

The long term changes are that it will:
👉🏻 communicate body awareness (research shows body awareness decreases pain)
👉🏻improve circulation (aids in healing)
👉🏻decrease fatigue
👉🏻support weak muscles
👉🏻improve soft tissue glide

All of these factors contribute to pain, so improving them improves pain. 💪🏻

There are absolutely immediate changes and improvements, but since we’re working with the nervous system, we have to treat it as a program.

Tape is a great, incredibly effective tool as part of an entire program.

I wouldn’t go to the gym one time and leave with a six pack.
Therefore I wouldn’t use one piece of tape and expect full recovery.

Just like all rehab and injury prevention modalities, it works best when done regularly and consistently.

The immediate improvement sure is nice though.

10/29/2022