Why Book an Appointment?
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· General wellness programme to ensure optimal performance, including early detection of arising subclinical issues.
· A decline in performance or something doesn’t feel ‘right’, and you may have been told that your horse isn’t lame. Problems may include one sided stiffness, specific schooling difficulties, ongoing back sensitivity or pain, head tossing, tail swishing, change in behaviour when tacking up, refusing fences.
· If your horse has known areas of weakness that need working on.
· Lacking musculature - a generalised area such as the neck or topline, or some asymmetry when comparing L & R.
· Any concerns with respect to your horse's performance.
· Known lameness or ongoing injury, and you want to optimise comfort and/or ability to exercise and perform.
· A decline in performance or something doesn’t feel ‘right’, and you may have been told that your horse isn’t lame. Problems may include one sided stiffness, specific schooling difficulties, ongoing back sensitivity or pain, head tossing, tail swishing, change in behaviour when tacking up, refusing fences.
· If your horse has known areas of weakness that need working on.
· Lacking musculature - a generalised area such as the neck or topline, or some asymmetry when comparing L & R.
· Any concerns with respect to your horse's performance.
· Known lameness or ongoing injury, and you want to optimise comfort and/or ability to exercise and perform.
Benefits of Chiropractic
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Chiropractic aims to normalise the communication between the body and the nervous system, therefore improving biomechanics. This reduces wear and tear, and therefore injuries, and improves all round performance.
One study showed a 16% increase in muscle strength following a single chiropractic session, which is equivalent to 3 weeks strength training.
A study on Taekwondo athletes (championship level) showed a 6% increase in strength of muscle after a single session.
Another study on stroke patients showed a 60% improvement of muscle strength in affected limb on average.
Studies over the past 15 years have suggested that chiropractic adjustments can trigger changes in the body such as:
Reduced movement in the spine is not simply a problem of local stiffness. Abnormal joint movement in the spine leads to different information being sent to the brain. This leads to dysfunctional processing by the brain, which in turn leads to poor control of the spine and body.
Considering the above model, chiropractors act to have an effect on the nervous system. When reduced motion in the spine is detected, a chiropractic adjustment restores normal movement in that particular joint, therefore improving the information being sent to the brain. This helps the brain identify the correct location of body and parts (known as proprioception), which is important in maintaining posture and controlling movement.
Most traditional treatment programmes aim to treat symptoms as they arise. The principle of animal chiropractic is to take a preventative approach, therefore reducing symptom development. If you consider each joint, 80% of its stabilisation comes from the surrounding muscles and tendons. When the nervous system is acting appropriately, during movement, joints are ‘protected’ by an organised pattern of contraction and relaxation of the surrounding muscles. This stabilises the joint and prevents wear, stress and injury.
Joint injuries occur when there is a breakdown of this normal pattern, and therefore a ‘failure’ of the surrounding muscles and soft tissues, allowing abnormal forces to act through the joints and surrounding structures. With the build up of these subclinical changes, eventually a ‘detectable’ amount of damage will manifest clinically as pain or lameness for example. Only animal chiropractors are sufficiently trained to detect abnormal joint mechanics in these subclinical stages, and correct them before further damage is caused. In essence, chiropractic ‘normalises’ the communication between the body and the central nervous system.
One study showed a 16% increase in muscle strength following a single chiropractic session, which is equivalent to 3 weeks strength training.
A study on Taekwondo athletes (championship level) showed a 6% increase in strength of muscle after a single session.
Another study on stroke patients showed a 60% improvement of muscle strength in affected limb on average.
Studies over the past 15 years have suggested that chiropractic adjustments can trigger changes in the body such as:
- Increased muscle strength
- Reduced muscle fatigue developing
- Improved reaction times
- Improved or altered visual acuity and visual field size
- Reduced joint position sense error
- Changes to specific messages that get sent to muscles from the CNS
- Altered brain processing
- Changes in the way that our brain integrates sensory and motor information
- Altered spinal cord reflex excitability
Reduced movement in the spine is not simply a problem of local stiffness. Abnormal joint movement in the spine leads to different information being sent to the brain. This leads to dysfunctional processing by the brain, which in turn leads to poor control of the spine and body.
Considering the above model, chiropractors act to have an effect on the nervous system. When reduced motion in the spine is detected, a chiropractic adjustment restores normal movement in that particular joint, therefore improving the information being sent to the brain. This helps the brain identify the correct location of body and parts (known as proprioception), which is important in maintaining posture and controlling movement.
Most traditional treatment programmes aim to treat symptoms as they arise. The principle of animal chiropractic is to take a preventative approach, therefore reducing symptom development. If you consider each joint, 80% of its stabilisation comes from the surrounding muscles and tendons. When the nervous system is acting appropriately, during movement, joints are ‘protected’ by an organised pattern of contraction and relaxation of the surrounding muscles. This stabilises the joint and prevents wear, stress and injury.
Joint injuries occur when there is a breakdown of this normal pattern, and therefore a ‘failure’ of the surrounding muscles and soft tissues, allowing abnormal forces to act through the joints and surrounding structures. With the build up of these subclinical changes, eventually a ‘detectable’ amount of damage will manifest clinically as pain or lameness for example. Only animal chiropractors are sufficiently trained to detect abnormal joint mechanics in these subclinical stages, and correct them before further damage is caused. In essence, chiropractic ‘normalises’ the communication between the body and the central nervous system.
