Help your horse relax, release pain and give you his best performance on the trail or in the ring. Provides relief to fatigued muscles, tendons and ligaments while helping to prevent further injury and damage. Even dispositions can be improved when pain and discomfort from relieving a horse’s stress points.
How a Problem Develops
As a result of excess tension of muscle tightening, a muscle containing a quarter of a million fibers forms a spasm of approximately ten thousand fibers. It is so small that you do not realize its presence. The horse has plenty of contractile strength left and continues to perform well, but ten thousand fibers have been shortened even further and restricted in their ability to be stretched to full length. With continued use, the spasm becomes aggravated and begins to add more fibers to itself. As it enlarges, it causes pressure. Pressure causes discomfort and pain. The horse responds to this by resisting, refusing or by going off in certain movements. These are the warning signs which signal something is wrong. This is the time when the problem is still a simple spasm and can be quickly and easily removed.
Benefits of Massage
- Improves Circulation
- Promotes More Rapid Healing of Injuries
- Enhances Muscle Tone
- Increases Range of Motion
- More Fluid Movements
- Increases Immune system
- Reduces Allergies
Trigger Point Therapy
This technique involves sustained pressure from the thumbs, fingers, or elbow on myofascial trigger pints. When an area of the body is stressed repeatedly, the local nerves become over excitable or hyperirritable—a process known as facilitation. The goal of trigger point therapy is to deactivate the point and thus eliminated a source of pain. Trigger points are not in the same place in every horse. |
