Galaxy Equine Wellness Magnawave Therapy

04/08/2025

There are many debates about fascia—what it is, what it includes, and what its function truly is. Many definitions are used to describe and categorise this tissue, which I believe is impossible. It is a continuous tissue that is everywhere and manifests in many forms, from loose areolar tissue to highly organised tendons; from continuous tissue that connects parts, allows for force transmission, to areas where it disconnects and allows gliding and sliding.
The picture shows what I observe during my equine dissections.
I see the fibrillary network, filmed by J. C. Guimberteau.
And I see the ‘matrix’ described, I believe, by Stephen Lewin – “Fascia is the fabric of the body; not the vestments covering the corpus but material that gives it the form: the warp and the weft. Muscles and bone, liver, lung, gut, urinary, brain and endocrine are all embroidered in the fascial web.

The 2025 Fascial Congress will start in a few days. Will it bring clarification or more confusion?

Links to my work:
Patreon page that supports my work
https://www.patreon.com/equineanatomyinlayers

Whole Horse Dissection online (12 months access)
https://ivanaruddock.podia.com/the-equine-anatomy-in-layers

Atlas of the Equine Musculoskeletal system
https://ivanaruddock-lange.com/equine-atlas/

31/07/2025

26/07/2025

26/05/2025

Beautiful

The delicate nerves along the spinal cord

Here we are looking at the nerves that branch from the lumbo sacral Junction. On the right is the first sacral nerve and on the left is the ischiatic nerve, below that is the spinal cord. I have pulled back the first sacral nerve branch’s to show the fascial connections to the spinal cord and the delicate vascular system.

The hind end of the horse has held my fascination through out this journey because there so much going on there for a horse. It’s late maturing and so often over looked because it looks strong but actually once one structure fails it becomes a cascade of problems. The study happening this year into pelvic collapse aims to show the pathways to this injury from ignoring the horses schedule of maturity.

For more information head to my patreon page to see more images.

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27/12/2024

12/10/2024

I don’t know if this is accurate but I found this very interesting.

18/08/2024

15/08/2024

Some sweet moments captured. There’s nothing better then when they reciprocate with gentle nibbles.

30/07/2024

27/05/2024

As if day one wasn’t amazing enough day 2 exceeded all expectations. A surprise demo and crash course in fascia from Yanek Vluggen was a considerable bonus, and during training sessions, moments so pure between horse and human they brought tears to your eyes. To watch the dance between Master Manolo and horse is to witness someone working WITH the horse. Building and enhancing the horse’s natural movement. It allows the horses to OFFER what they have. There is no manufacturing, no driving, no pulling, no holding, no drilling. It creates such a different picture than what we are used to seeing. No veins bulging, no big eyes, no lather, no bulging parotid behind the throat latch. No angry, stressed horses. I ask myself if everyone could see this would they recognize it as a more beautiful picture then what is being rewarded in the dressage ring?

20/04/2024

Beautiful joint.

Did you know that it can take up to ten minutes for joint fluid to begin moving and lubricating the joints. I can’t stress enough how important this is especially for horses that spend the majority of their day stabled. A loose unrestricted warmup will give your horses body the best chance it has to cope with more demanding work. This is not just about the limbs- Don’t forget the neck and back! Chronic neck and back issues are almost more prevalent then leg issues in the horses I look at.
Although there are now surgerical procedures, that combined with tissue engineering, aid in the repair of cartilage damage, there is no way to my knowledge to fully regenerate true cartilage.
Motion is lotion but overuse, lack of proper warm up will lead to early breakdown.

Look at the glistening hyaline cartilage in this partial stifle joint (femur and patella). This is a particularly good example of a healthy joint. Which happens to be a ex standardbred racehorse. I’ve not seen such a great joint surface such as this in the past 28 whole horse dissections I’ve carried out.

Did you know that this cartilage has a low density of living cells. There is only 10% of cells per volume of cartilage and they are known as chondrocytes. These cells are embedded in a matrix (think of a stiff jelly) of collagen fibrils, proteoglycans and water! Water makes up 70% of the cartilage by volume. So it is literally cells suspended in a stiff jelly.

Did you know that generally there are no blood vessels or nerves in hyaline cartilage. Nutrition to the cells is by diffusion. This makes it difficult for the tissue to recover if it is damaged. Collagen and proteoglycans can be replaced but the important microstructure of the cartilage is lost and leads to permanent damage

Locomotion and loading is what is needed to keep the cartilage healthy. But not too much.

The key to a healthy joint cartilage is prevention of injury.
Careful exercise built up over time to strengthen all tissue including cartilage.

Ref AAEP proceedings vol 55 2009