Bidding ends today. Don’t forget to place your bids in the benefit auction for the many generous donations to help the Brant and Priest teams after the catastrophic barn fire that happened in Ohio last month. There’s many things to bid on including a month of water therapy (#597) with us as well as 5 hyperbaric treatments (#596)! https://internethorseauctions.com/auction-ptb.php?aucid=543&Start=400&closeinc=100
Our hearts go out to the Brant and Priest teams affected by the catastrophic fire that took place in Ohio last month. We have donated 2 separate auction items in hope of helping to raise money during the benefit auction held online 6/24-6/26. Please go check both our hyperbaric and aquatic therapy donations out among the many other contributions for such a good cause. https://prohorseservices.com
#internationalbathday: we always give horses going into the hyperbaric chamber a nice bath prior to starting their treatments. It’s important to wash any show sheen and/or topicals off as only certain topicals can be used in the chamber
It's diabetes week which means it's the perfect time to talk about metabolics. These issues are no longer an old horse disease. The vast majority of horses struggling with their metabolic levels are warmbloods. Testing only T4 doesn’t give you the full picture of your horse’s metabolic health and it’s important to keep all levels in check throughout the year. If out of balance they can affect everything from the well known weight and coat changes to laminitic episodes and non healing injuries both wounds and soft tissue.
#nationaldonutday If you've shared a few too many donuts with your horse (we know they deserved it!) consider taking them to swim a few times a week. It's a great way to help your horse shed some extra pounds with the benefit of not adding extra concussion to joints and feet
With a collaboration between us, your vet, and you we can customize your horse's rehab plan to best suit their needs. Our below ground aquatred is built with safety in mind and can help your horse with a variety of rehab and training goals.
In humans muscle groups used in running vs swimming is vastly different, running only really requires the training of 5 main muscle groups while swimming requires 24 to train for peak fitness. Horses are very similar using many more muscles to train swimming vs just training on the flat making swimming a much more complete workout. It's a great workout to work into your current routine to reduce stress on joints and provide a full body workout at the same time
There’s nothing quite like a cool down in the cold spa after a hot competition day! It helps reduce inflammation and microtears from tough workouts and is used by the top athletes around the world!
We cannot stress the importance of keeping your nebulizer clean enough. A clean nebulizer will be more effective in treating your horse's ailment. We have worked hard to develop the best and most effective way to clean the Flexineb. Take a look and share so that others can learn the best way too!1. Add blue Dawn dish soap to medication cup and fill with tap water. Set aside while you clean the rest of the pieces (Don't forget to make sure your plastic cap is on!)2. Spray inside and outside of all other pieces with diluted Terg-O-Cide3. Add dish soap and more diluted Terg-O-Cide to your scrub brush dedicated for nebulizer cleaning4. Scrub inside and outside of all pieces 5. Using clean Qtip gently clean the inside and outside of your medication cup. Rinse well and set out to dry6. Rinse all pieces inside and out and set out to dry*make sure to clean the medication cup immediately after each use!*
“How KESMARC gave Felix his fancy back” Metabolic issues can wreak havoc on your horse's system. In addition, the overuse of inhaled steroids even on a young horse (this one was only 8), can cause a horse to fall into a metabolic crisis particularly when the wrong medication is used at the wrong time. This horse had no reason to be metabolic other than overuse of the wrong medication at the wrong time in an inflammatory airway disease episode. Imbalances like this can even cause tie ups. When the metabolic system isn’t right it can't process sugars correctly. What does that have to do with tying up? Lactic Acid! It's commonly thought that an excess of this acid can cause tying up, so if your horse can't accurately and efficiently breakdown sugar you run the risk of too much lactic acid in the body and could ultimately end up with tying up issues.
Aquatreding right into a relaxing spa weekend! We keep the environment of the barn calm so that horses can relax and have stress free therapy whether on stall rest or getting back under tack and all the steps we are able to offer in between with our aquatic therapies
Many athletes both horse and human make use of ice baths post workout. Also, similar to soaking in an epsom salt bath for your aches and pains, our cold salt water spa has epsom salt mixed in to reduce inflammation following a workout.
Previous swim lessons not required for your horse to enjoy our pool! By their second time most horses are used to and enjoy swimming. We keep a well trained eye to make sure they are using proper technique and laps are always slowly increased as your horse is comfortable and able to!
Today is the girl's day! Best of luck to everyone competing today in the run for the lilies!
No one does surgery prep/recovery quite like the KESMARC team. Making sure your horse has minimal inflammation and bad bacteria prior to throat surgery will make a big difference in a throat surgery's success. Plus combining hyperbaric treatments along with nebulizing can make a drastic difference in recovery. The best throat surgeons in KY know this and now you do too!
It’s dressage day at the #kythreedayevent Did you know horses competing in dressage respond particularly well to the Aquatred? This is because their gait remains the same throughout their full body reduced concussion workout! Best of luck to the horses competing in the start to this equine triathlon
As your horses are traveling/arriving north for the show season in KY don't forget that allergens travel north too! This is the biggest time for both horse and human to have allergy/breathing problems. Address those issues quickly and the right way to prevent future respiratory problems
KESMARC is proud to offer a variety of conditioning and rehab options both aquatic and non aquatic. And since all of our therapies indoors, your horse can get its full body workout even with this roller coaster weather.
