What is Equine Body Work?

Ultimate health and performance for your horses is all about finding balance. Each horse has their own balance, or homeostasis. This allows for their body to perform a variety of daily functions. This can range from simple things such as jumping fences as well as more complex things such as digesting food. Precise body work is a way to ensure ultimate balance within the body. This will allow your horse to perform to the best of their abilities and prevent the limitation of physiological factors that would keep your horses from reaching their potential. Rachel uses different modalities of body work that gives impulses to your horses body, changing the information the horse’s body receives and allows new patterns to take place.

What is Equine Osteopathy?

Equine Osteopathy is the specific application of the principles and standards developed in human osteopathy, translated, adapted, and modified to the special structural and physical needs of the equine. It is based on the theory that disease is due mainly to loss of structural integrity and that it can be restored through manipulations of immobile structures. It is a hands-on modality that looks at the 3 pillars of the body. The cranial sacral system( which is made of the skull, sacrum, spinal cord, cerebral spinal fluid, and all of the correlating soft tissue structures), visceral system or the organ system) and parietal system or the skeletal system. When these “pillars'' are working in unison they create homeostasis; or balance within the body. Osteopathy will help to prevent disease, ranging from illnesses to lamenesses by recognizing early signs of disharmony in the body, as well as increasing the level of performance and general well-being of your horse.

Looking at the whole horse I strive to work in unison with You,  your veterinarian, trainer, and farrier to bring a whole horse holistic approach to your horse’s health care routine.