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Equine Physical Rehabilitation

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Equine Physical Rehabilitation
• Manual therapies
• Electrotherapy
• Functional retraining
• Therapeutic exercise-based treatments
• Education and ongoing owner-managed procedures
• STUBBS NC. 2015. Chapter 24 Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation. Robinson’s Current
Therapy in EQUINE MEDICINE 7th Edition. Editors: Kim

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Manual Therapy
Massage

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Stretching
• Do you have any idea how difficult that bottom cookie stretch is? Injury prevention!

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Weight Loss

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Exercise
• Long reining with two reins driving the horse from the ground is appropriate
• The use of a single rein or lunge does not allow the handler sufficient control of the
hind legs of the animal.
• Fields are invaluable not only to alleviate boredom, but slopes can be incorporated, worked across, up or down, and also a horse can be made to back up, going up, down or across a slope for two or three strides.
• Each movement recruits different muscle interaction, as does being forced to balance on uneven ground.
Bromiley MW. 2007. Chapter 6 Rehabilitation. Equine Injury, Therapy and Rehabilitation 3rd Edition. Blackwell
Publishing, Ltd. Oxford, UK. Pg 130-159.

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