Straw of Hope Equine Acuscope Therapy

11/06/2024

Hey! Checking in with everyone! Make sure to get on my books for appointments to come out to your place, but I will be set up at Wickenburg Trailer Sales on Fridays and Horns and Hooves Roping Arena Saturday and Sundays! Unless I have appointments scheduled!
I am booked through next Thursday the 14th at this time!
541-621-7649

11/01/2024

Wickenburg Trailer Sales is have a customer appreciation day tomorrow! Stop by and check everything out!!

10/31/2024

Who’s hitting AZ before Vegas! Get on my books now, they fill up fast, to have your horse feeling its best for the finals!! 541-621-6749 you won’t be disappointed!

10/28/2024

10/28/2024

When it’s so good you can’t stay awake or hold your own head up!

10/26/2024

I will be set up at Big Tree this year! Let me know what I can help you with! I’ll be there every week day after 2 and all day Friday! Come see me in the store in the morning!

10/24/2024

There’s something to say about what a horse can do for you, but what can you do for your horse?
The season is here in AZ! Let’s make sure your horse is feeling good the whole time you are here.
The Acuscope/Myopulse BENIFITS are but not limited to:
Pre/post Performance
Tendons/Ligaments
Abscesses/ Hematomas
Hoof Treatments
Muscle soreness
EPM
Kissing Spine
Wound Healing

Give me a call or message me 541-621-7649

10/21/2024

On Sept 14th I pick up this little nugget. She got x rays done (rotated), feet done, and treated two weeks straight. Now we are out in the desert loving life being treated once a week!!! I love what I do and here is more proof that the Acuscope can do amazing things! I’m so thankful for the people that helped me get here! Straw of Hope Equine Acuscope Therapy Whitney Madigan Wes Hardin Kylee Jo Masters

10/16/2024

This! I always treat the horse as a whole. You never know what else you will find. Give me a call to get on the schedule! 541-621-7649

“The horse just has a little arthritis in his left hock, it doesn’t seem to bother him too much, he just gets a bit stiff!”

Horses are great compensators, and they will create alternative locomotive patterns to continue movement.

So, say this little bit of osteoarthritis causes a reduced range of motion of the tarsal (hock) joint. In an attempt to maintain stride length and hide this dysfunction to potential predators (because you never know when a lion could be waiting around the corner... or a flapping plastic bag!), the tarsal joint is rotated medially (inwards) during the swing phase of the stride. This results in asymmetrical & medial weight bearing through the digit. This places additional stress through medial hamstring muscles, resulting in muscle tension and trigger points. And this is all something that is potentially going on in the affected hindlimb.

A hip hike/drop can occur at corresponding phases of the stride, placing the sacroiliac joint under stress, resulting in paraspinal and asymmetrical gluteal tone/pain.

Decreased impulsion from the left hindlimb leads to increased weight bearing through the right forelimb diagonal. This can create tension and hypertrophy to the right pectoral muscles and related fascial planes.

The spiral of compensation could continue on further, affecting cervical muscles that become hypertonic as a result of weight shifting, digit shape and size, TMJ pain, head tiling, hyoid dysfunction, asymmetric tail holding...

Often it can be the case where I see a horse that is a chronic stage of compensation and it can be difficult to find the true cause especially when the horse may appear just overall “stiff”.

I liken the rehabilitation of chronic cases to peeling the layers off an onion; one layer at a time and piece by piece to unravel and rewind the compensation spiral. It is important to identify and manage the root cause, rather than just accepting it🐴

10/16/2024

Today is my sister birthday!!! Happy birthday Sabra! ♥️ thank you for always supporting me!

10/14/2024

Grey head horses are the best! 🥰 he lives his best life!

10/13/2024

Doing what I love from sun up to sun down ♥️

10/12/2024

We did get another additional member to the family along our Oregon trip! Meet Ginger 🥰♥️
She has been getting some treatments, and will be my main prop for Straw of Hope Equine Acuscope Therapy!

10/10/2024

We have a new Oregon manager! 🥰 he very much enjoys his treatments and would prefer I stayed in Oregon!
But folks I’m back in Arizona! Call to book today 541-621-7649 I am already starting to book up though Oct!

10/07/2024

Motivation Monday! Picked up my good mares full sister! Guess I thought I needed more to do! Thank you to Aschoff Quarter Horses for raising such good horses. I’m excited about this yearling.

09/29/2024

Love coming to Oregon and seeing my family!!! The memories can’t get better than this ♥️

09/23/2024

Spoiled 🥰

09/20/2024

🥰so thankful!

09/18/2024

Medford OR I am officially here and treating horses! Im almost full with just a few openings left let me know if you want one!
541-621-7649

09/18/2024

So thankful for what I got to learn and experience while I was in Kentucky for years. I wouldn’t be where I am today without that background! I’ve learned to wrap just about anything and everything among many other things.
Thank you Kentucky for everything you taught me! And thank you to my clients for trusting me with your athletes!

09/14/2024

I got the privilege to work on some horses that made it to the short go!!!

Good luck to all in the short go of the Pendleton Round Up today!

09/11/2024

Today’s the day of first performance at Pendleton Round Up. Good luck to all!