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| GHALEEM |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 1:35:02 PM
I would like to get someone out to give my boys a general check over. I just want them looked over for any injury, uneven muscle development.
There seems to be so many different types of people physio, chiropractor, osteopath, shiatsu, Mctimoney? Are they to be used on vet referral or just for general check ups?
Which do you use and can anyone recommend anyone in Wales?
Cheers,
Michelle |
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| Pauline |
Posted - 08 Aug 2011 : 8:58:40 PM
I use a Chiropractor who is a vet.
I have used a Mctimony person but she did not find the problem.
I use Jose Gomas I will even travel to his clinic even If he is not in my area, he is that good.
I give my horses a massage myself as I trained as a physio.
Pauline |
| Pasha |
Posted - 08 Aug 2011 : 10:40:46 AM
Great replies! Having read up about them online i've decided to get an Osteo out (one recommended by vets) for an all over maintenance if you like - he loves having a massage but my physio doesn't really do that. I rate my Physio very highly and she will be my first call if we get a problem.
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| pinkvboots |
Posted - 08 Aug 2011 : 10:04:09 AM
I always use a Physio now, I find they are more in depth with what they do, I have seen some other back people not even look at the horse moving and out of the stable I cant see how that can work. |
| Judith S |
Posted - 07 Aug 2011 : 7:53:39 PM
Hi Michelle
If you decide to go down the equine Mctimoney Chiropractor route, there is an excellent one who comes out to us from Cardiff - Bethan Lloyd. I can let you have a contact number if you want. |
| GHALEEM |
Posted - 07 Aug 2011 : 7:47:06 PM
Thanks for the replies, i ended up booking a physio who works with the vets at a local practice. She's a charted equine physio (whatever that means). I will let you know how it goes.
Michelle |
| Fee |
Posted - 06 Aug 2011 : 08:26:57 AM
Originally posted by Claire
Claire Proctor- I have just qualified as a human physio and I would say that unless nerves are trapped by bone on bone i.e as they leave the spinous processes of the vertebrae I'm unsure that they would be released by one treatment a 'trapped nerve' is something of a lay term as nerve is just tissue and can be 'tethered' if you like by other soft tissues/inflammation etc, therefore if your mare has tight sore muscles they will be holding the nerve in question on a stretch = pain, what I'm trying to say and not very well is that it won't be something that comes free and bingo no pain...
not sure if that makes sense I would go back to physio and see if they can give stretches etc to try and gently mobilise the nerve and allow it to slide within the tissues.
Makes perfect sense. I too have went down this road of having trapped nerves released every few weeks/months. However, it's my lay understanding that the nerve kept falling back into the 'trapped' position as there was something going on elsewhere causing the tension in that area. It was a never ending cycle of treating an area of pain/tension/trapped nerve that was never going to get better until we found and fixed the cause.
Fee
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| abcoboy |
Posted - 06 Aug 2011 : 08:21:44 AM
My boy was treated by Janet K ... when he was with his last owners ... sorry, cant tell you how good she was but I know she's Wales way (he was in Ruthin at the time). |
| Fee |
Posted - 06 Aug 2011 : 08:14:42 AM
If you can find or are recommended a good osteopath I would seek that first. Failing that I would seek a good physio. It's my opinion through experience and research that the osteopath has more knowledge and training.
Fee |
| loulou |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 7:32:54 PM
Hi Sarah
We are also in the South East and I have used Anna Wiltshire with great success. I believe she does sports massage, I know she spends an absolute age on them all over and gives you exercises to do with them. I think she is around £50 a session, less if there are more of you in one booking. If interested I can pm you her number. I am hoping she will see my mare later this week as she is really tight and finds it difficult to bend one side.
Tracey |
| Mrs Vlacq |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 6:26:55 PM
We use Janette Keely a Mctimoney Chiropractor based in North Wales for ourselves and our horses, Competes her own horses so understands working and rest schedules and what is practical too. |
| Claire |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 4:24:07 PM
I think there are good and bad in all professions- make sure they are fully qualified and preferably reccommended by someone you trust- there are far to many so called 'back' people practicing who have no legal qualifications what so ever!
Claire Proctor- I have just qualified as a human physio and I would say that unless nerves are trapped by bone on bone i.e as they leave the spinous processes of the vertebrae I'm unsure that they would be released by one treatment a 'trapped nerve' is something of a lay term as nerve is just tissue and can be 'tethered' if you like by other soft tissues/inflammation etc, therefore if your mare has tight sore muscles they will be holding the nerve in question on a stretch = pain, what I'm trying to say and not very well is that it won't be something that comes free and bingo no pain...
not sure if that makes sense I would go back to physio and see if they can give stretches etc to try and gently mobilise the nerve and allow it to slide within the tissues. |
| proctorclaire |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 3:21:53 PM
It is very confusing and to be honest all of them can pick up on things that the other ones can't. I had the best vets in the country look at my horse and said muscles were fine, physio looked at them and said they were very tight and she was very sore (she didn't pick up on the fact that she had a trapped nerve), chiropractor came out and noticed trapped nerve, released it and said that rest of muscles would now relax......she is still getting trapped nerves and muscles still aren't relaxing. Round and round in circles. I still think something underline is causing it all but I can't seem to find anyone who can give me the answer to it. Mare been off work for nearly a year now. I am going to get Tex up now and see what he thinks, he deals with skelton I think but to be honest she's had full body scan and back x rayed and nothing there (that they can see anyway). |
| Callisto |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 3:04:07 PM
On our vet' recommendation we used Tina Ricketts Smith - she is an equine chiropractor and president of the Equine Sports Massage Association - She covers East Sussex and surrounding areas and a session cost me £45, I would definitely use her again. |
| GHALEEM |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 2:48:23 PM
Glad someone else is confused
Hope you dont mind me asking but how much did you pay per session and did you genuinely feel it made a difference?
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| Pasha |
Posted - 05 Aug 2011 : 2:41:30 PM
It's soo confusing isn't it?
I will be interested to see the replies! When Shesky had a sore back my vet referred me to a Vet Physio and she sorted him out over a 6 week period and gave us follow-up work according to his confo... it wasn't an all-over massage, she assessed him and then treated the problem area
I quite like the sound of Osteopaths and am thinking about getting a Sports Massage Therapist after having a very beneficial Sports Massage session myself.
So sorry to hujack but if anyone can recommend a SMT in the South-East I would be grateful x |
