Total Balance Equine Therapy

17/01/2023

Fed up of winter?! Our Horses are probably feeling a bit the same short days with limited turn out and harsh weather can leave them feeling a bit fed up and stiff.

Sports massage is great to boost your horses sense of well-being and free off those aches, pains and stiffness that come with this cold weather and being stuck inside more.

Give me a message to get your horse booked 📧

29/08/2022

Hope everyone’s enjoying their bank holiday!

Here are some loves pictures ofJosie from a while ago that I completely forgot about! Thank you to Josie’s owner Tracey for capturing these ☺️🦄

24/06/2022

I’ve been super busy lately meeting lots of lovely new horses and owners I haven’t taken many pictures or videos!! July diary is almost full so let me know if you want to book in! ☺️ Here’s some cute pictures of little Lullaby a while ago enjoying her face massage 🥹

13/06/2022

Sped up video of part of little Tia’s treatment a while ago, love her eye blinking all the time 🥰😴 Hope everyone’s had a lovely weekend with their horses 🐴

10/06/2022

07/06/2022

Lovely Archie enjoying his monthly massage 🥰 Always amazes me how clever and versatile some horses are! Archie has gone from racehorse to riding horse and now also a carriage horse! Of course it does help having a top trainer like Jo to teach him! 🐎

26/05/2022

Well this is very exciting for people who want to give BE a go for the first time without having to pay to join! 🤩

🚩𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 ‘𝗚𝗢 𝗕𝗘’

No Membership Needed and Unpublished Results makes British Eventing accessible for all!

From July 1st GO BE classes will enable riders to take part in a British Eventing affiliated competition, without the need of a BE membership and without a BE published record of the results. The classes will be run in accordance with all other BE competitions, just with the notable difference that they will be open to all riders (non-members will need to complete a free Associate registration via the website) and results will be unpublished.

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https://news.britisheventing.com/introducing-go-be/

24/05/2022

I have received a lot of really nice feedback lately from clients via email and messenger! Thank you everyone 😌 If you are able to spare a moment and leave me a review on my page it’s greatly appreciated! 🥰🐴🐴

19/05/2022

As a therapist I will work with all aspects of the horse aiming to find the source of any injuries or potential injuries that may be holding you and your horse back from reaching your full potential.

Equine sports massage therapy has a huge number of benefits for all horses whether they are a top-level competition horse or just a happy hacker. Or maybe you have a project horse or horse with injury, who needs some work to get them feeling fit and healthy again.

I will use a range of massage techniques, leg and neck stretches, look at tack, training, your horses daily routine and inspect the horse as a whole to get to the root cause of any problems you may be having and help prevent any future injuries.

Here are just some of the potential benefits from equine sports therapy:

🌟Helps muscles to work at their maximum efficiency, improving your horses muscle tone and relaxing tight knotted muscles

🌟Increases circulation to the muscles

🌟Improves range of movement in the joints and helps keep joints supple

🌟Calms the nervous system

🌟Speeds up healing from injury by increasing blood supply

🌟Breaks up scar tissue and tight muscle fibres and connective tissue

🌟Improves lymphatic drainage

🌟Increases muscle elasticity and suppleness, reducing the risk of injury

18/05/2022

We ask a lot of our horses as part of there day to day lives- hacking, fun rides, schooling, dressage, jumping, eventing! So we need to make sure they are fit and strong enough for the job! 💪

It’s easy to build strength in for you horse but you have to follow a few key rules to be able to!

1. Make sure they are not in pain. You will not be able to build muscle if your horse is in pain, the nerves will tell the muscles to protect themselves and they won’t work properly! If your concerned your horse is in pain seek some professional advice.

2. Before you start a strengthening program make sure your tack fits correctly, diet is correct for the workload and shoeing is up to date!

3. Little and often. Start with muscle building exercise little and often, once the muscles are working correctly and efficiently you can increase the difficulty and reduce the frequency.

4. Start easy and increase difficulty. Start with easier exercises that you know how to do or do them in hand first. If you choose an exercise that’s too difficult and do to wrong you could cause an injury. So always start with something you find easy and increase the difficult as you get better at it!

18/05/2022

I’m working in Bude on Saturday and have space for a few horses in the area🐴 Give me a message if you’d like to book in 🌟

17/05/2022

Really interesting page to follow - looking at how the hoof balance and shoeing has a huge impact on our horses way of going and soundness. 🐴 🤓