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Equine Massage Therapy is an Intellectual Process; working
through the law of 'cause and effect', it not only releases
the causes of pain and discomfort from within a horse, it
also prevents their return and consequential effects
Equine Holistic Training reveals many techniques, applications
and routines, all designed to create targeted results for
pre-competition, post-competition, maintenance, recovery,
psychological relaxation physiological stimulation as well
as muscular flexion and tone.
The horse's
brain accepts posture, balance, locomotion and muscular
tension as normal, thus continuing to order its negative
movement...
When ordered from the
brain through the neural system, the integrated workings of
the skeletal, ligament, tendon and muscular systems unite,
to create the horse's movement. However, the brain does not
recognise whether the executed movement is positive and
correct, negative, ineffective or self damaging. So why does
the horse's brain accept negative and damaging movement?
because mother nature has not yet evolved to counteract the
very unnatural act of riding the horse in the ways that we
do.
Equine Massage
Therapy is not a luxury - it is a necessity for all domestic
working and retired horses ...
Lateral movement, hind
limb engagement, creating a light forehand, tracking up,
extending the strides and jumping are all unnatural actions,
although the horse has the ability to perform these actions
so that in the wild he may escape from danger.
However, Mother Nature did not incorporate the inclusion
tack and rider into these adapted movements.
When treating the horse with both or either equine healing
massage and equine sports massage therapy, its powerful
effects do not remain confined within the horses muscular
system. Its benefits are listed to the left.
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