B4 Equine Services, LLC

11/26/2025

Here are 3 major things that you should expect from your equine bodyworker! 🐴

1: For them to be up to date and knowledgeable about majority of things within the equine industry!

Now I’m not expecting every massage therapist to be a walking equine / veterinary text book but if you start explaining your horses medical history and what your horse has had done, preventative treatment wise, and they look like a deer in the headlights, find a more experienced therapist!

2: For them to be able to “read the room” and be able to know when your horse is being overstimulated.

I have been told multiple times by newer clients that their horse wouldn’t stand still for so and so to work on them or they needed to be fed a copious amount of hay to stay distracted during a session and it honestly makes me cringe. If your horse isn’t enjoying themselves and not benefiting both physically and mentally from a session, you are wasting your money!!!

3: To check up on you and your horse!

If your therapist doesn’t care about you and your horse outside of that one hour a month when you’re paying them, move on to the next! I can’t tell you how many times I text clients asking how a vet appointment went, what was the result from a simple blood test, what did the farrier say this month, how did the horse do after a race, and on and on! I care about your horse so much more than you probably think I do.

There are too many good equine bodyworkers to have a bad one!

11/20/2025

The Equine Disease Communication Center is monitoring an outbreak of EHM that originated at the Women’s Professional Rodeo Association (WPRA) World Finals and Elite Barrel Race event Nov 5-9. To date, officially confirmed cases have been reported in the following states-

11/19/2025

When I’m evaluating a horse for a body work session I look at numerous things! 👀But one thing that I always keep an eye out for DURING the session are the horses legs and stance.🐴

Do they constantly switch their resting hind leg?
Do they scrap their inside hoof wall with the opposite hind foot?
Do they resist standing on all four even when asked?
Do they have a hard time standing and staying square?
Do they clip their front shoes excessively? 🤔

To me, these are all possible signs your horse may have body soreness and may need to see their vet, chiro, or massage therapist!

Does your horse do any of these?

11/12/2025

Lots of potential clients tell me all the time "my horse has a chiropractor, he's good!" 🤷🏼‍♀️ It almost makes me chuckle because, as much as I love hearing your horse has a chiropractor, what I do as a massage therapist is just as important as a chiropractor. Your horses muscles are holding those bones together or causing things to move freely and evenly with no restrictions! 🦴

A tight muscle is going to make your chiropractors job harder and sometimes when your chiropractor leaves, that muscle, thats still tight is going to pull your horse back into the restriction that your chiro helped alleviate.

There are so many different therapy modalities that our horses can benefit from, for example theres
chiropractic
osteopathic
massage therapy
acupuncture
Magnawave
Bemer
shock wave
cranial sacral
red light
microcurrent
and thats just the beginning!! 📝

Each therapy modality or even practitioner brings something different to the table! It takes a team to keep a horse healthy, happy, sound, and preforming pain free! 🐴💜

11/06/2025

Let’s learn to listen to the whispers.

Behavior escalates when the horse isn’t feeling ‘heard’.

If you want to get better at noticing subtle indicators 🚩 before they get louder- you need to focus on behavior and observation.

In the Equine Wellness Academy we have lessons dedicated solely to this.

Registration info in the comments👇👇

11/05/2025

What is the difference between an equine massage therapist and an equine bodyworker?

For me, a massage therapist deals with the muscles and muscles only! 💪🏼 But when I tell people I’m an equine bodyworker, I want them to understand that I work on the entire horse in a soft tissue aspect🔍

I’d like to think I bring more to the table than just a little muscle rub down for your horse…🤷🏼‍♀️
Although each individual session depends on each individuals horses needs I offer…
🐴relief of nerve impingement
🐴release of restricted fascia
🐴fascia/muscle scraping
🐴red light
🐴equine partnered therapy (concept of Masterson Method)
🐴 kinesiology taping
🐴specialty stretches and exercises

Each therapy modality and each practitioner has something amazing to offer you and your equine athlete, no matter how small. ❤️

11/02/2025

11/01/2025

Love it!!

10/29/2025

How much weight does a horse carry on their front end versus their hind end. 🤔

An ideal horse should carry 60 to 65% of their body weight on their front end. Their hind end should carry 35-40%!

Those numbers should be divided equally (50/50) from left to right or cut down the medial plane of the horse.

If your horse is lame, has arthritis, or is compromised in a conformational sense these numbers might vary! It's always helpful to have a vet, bodyworker, or farrier evaluate your horse and how they bear weight to make sure you're helping keep your horse as comfortable as possible!

10/28/2025

I have clients who use horses and mules in therapy sessions. I have said multiple times that I could NOT go to therapy and have an equine present, I’d pick it apart and analyze everything. I would need therapy because of the therapy!!! (But for real I could use normal therapy 🙃)