By Leslie Williamson of the NCTM for Equine and Companion Pets
We live in an amazing sporting country and horse sports are no doubt, one of the most courageous and majestic to watch.
When we are riding and pushing our bodies for that optimum rider fitness we are riding to create fitness of our horses too, we can often take things for granted until an injury happens to us or our horse.
Many little musculo-skeletal warning signs are often being presented but we ignore them because we just don’t see them, or we think they can be worked out.
When our students graduate from our Equine Myofunctional Therapy (EMT) Diploma, they walk away with a new set of skills that can pick-up the warning signs within the musculature. Visual and tactile observations come together in the assessing of what should be optimum for each horse. Just like any elite athlete, your horse should be regarded as an athlete always and have a great support team.
More than ever, there is an emphasis to live a balanced life, have a healthy mind and body, keep our musculo-skeletal system fit and flexible and remain as pain free as possible for as long as we can. The same considerations apply to our horses.
Massage fits perfectly into every horses’ life at every stage of their life and massage fits perfectly into a rehabilitation program, with highly regarded remedial and therapeutic benefits, addressing positive proprioception reducing physical, mental and emotional pain. EMT treatments work with what the individual is presenting, there are no cutting corners.
It’s never too late to make a difference to learn how to make your horse and many others feel the empowerment of massage enhancing optimum movement and longevity. It is the start to a very mindful rewarding journey for you and the horses you will help.
written in conjunction with NCTM
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