Understanding how the change of the hips effect the rest of the body.
This is what I teach and how to correct in my classes.
Here is some more before and after pictures with explanation. These 3 were done in one session doing Myofasical and some red light.
Lucky update !!!!
This is from the first time I saw her to her 8th visit yesterday. Very excited with the transformation so far and more to come!!!
This is Lucky !
She was diagnosed with a ear infection months ago and after that muscle tone and started walking like what you see in the left video. She was tested for EPM ,but was not diagnozed with it.
She has had 3 treatments in this past month and improving nicely. Her owner does her homework along the side of my treatments.
We still have a long way to go ,but wanted to share the process with everyone.
Yes this is something you can learn, but it does take time and patience.
This is Cosmo and he has laminitis . The owner has gone through many farriers in the past month to help him get his feet back under control. The problem has been they have made him worse.
His owner has had me come out and start working on his body to take away the discomfort that he has in his hind end and in his shoulder, from having to compensate, do the pain in his feet.
The video on the left is before his massage,and the video on the right is after his massage. What most people do not understand is that massage helps really well to decrease pain in the horse's feet to have laminitis. How you ask? Well, with massage we increaae blood flow throughout the body. As we increase blood flow it relaxes the muscles for one ,but also bring blood flow down to the feet which is being blocked because of the way they are walking due to inflammation. Think of your arm falling asleep. The inflammation starts to decrease when the horse is allowed to move better and blood flow is restored to the feet. Which is why I recommend KT tape on the feet, to help with laminitis. Its not a fix, unless you have a good farrier that works with you and understand how laminitis works.
The owner is getting outside help from another farrier, (who teachs classes) to help her out to get his feet going in a better direction.
Sorry the videos are rough, the owner sent them to me in a text message.
Massage was 45 minutes to an hour long .
Moon cupping sessions.
Moon had a cool cupping session today. In the video I explain a little on what we are doing and why she is doing what she is doing.
Moon 11/17/21
Moon had a BIG ACHIEVEMENT TODAY!!!!
If I am telling this correctly, Moon has not been able to stand on all 4 feet comfortably in a year. She had some hidden injuries and some noticeable ones. Brad has been working on her feet and ask me to join in on her team to help her out with body issues.
I have been doing bodywork on her for about 2 months now, just to get her body not to feel like concrete. Yes you heard me right lol. We have seen some incredible changes during this time. Here are just so small achievements she has done in the past 11 days, since her last bodywork :).
She is now, cantering in from her feild for dinner, learning to pick her back feet up with out pain again , walmimg straighter and normal and just being a normal horse again.
Today I wanted to stw8p it up a notch, because her body just keeps releasing and getting softer. I brought out the SureFoot Pads thinking we would just do the front feet and go from there.
She was not quite sure at first ,but after the 2nd attempt she feel in love with them. You can here us getting excited at what we saw going on.
Then I took a chance, because she was letting us know she could do it,we placed the pads under her back feet. We did one at a time in the beginning for her to feel everything and then the big moment happend. She was standing close to square for her, feeling comfortable and releasing and stretching those muscles. She would step off and them go back for more, and every bit of it was on her own. Again you can hear how happy we both were.
If she holds this treatment, we will be adding in passive stretching, a light exercise work.
GO MOON!!!!!
Feeling good
Still working on his pictures ,but I had to share this.
This boy has had long time hoof issues and with Bradley Kelley as his farrier and doing what he does best and myself having the opportunity to give his body some relief from years of compensating this is just the beginning of what is to come. Still have some work to do, but his body that was once hard as a rock now feels like jello!!
Lacey Snoring
Turn the volume up on this one.
This is the best, teaching class and she decided to lay down and get a massage and then started snoring .
All I needed was a blanket and a pillow to lay on and she would have been set 🤣🤣