Alternative Therapies for Horse Health Care
…holistic or alternative healthcare practitioners but nowadays they can often be seen working as a team for the benefit of the horse. Many of the holistic therapies available for humans…
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Should You Try Alternative Bodywork Therapies?
…alternative treatments for their horses. Some “alternative” therapies have been around for thousands of years. Others are relatively new on the scene. Acupuncture, for example, is an ancient Chinese healing…
Alternative Therapy “Proof”
…therapy/massage, etc. In fact, they may have been the therapies of choice in those instances. But the way alternative therapies are often presented, with rhetoric from the middle ages, damages…
Navicular Isn`t A `One-Size-Fits-All` Problem
…be possible. Medical Therapies While mechanical therapies concentrate on structural support, medical therapies are necessary for pain and/or increase blood circulation to the foot. Phenylbutazone is widely used because it…
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…excuse either. A major objection of those who dislike alternative therapies is that these therapies have little scientific research to prove their effectiveness. While we disagree with a reflex denial…
Dressage Helps Romney Cope with Multiple Sclerosis
…Romney insisted on accompanying her husband to Salt Lake City. To manage her disease, she relied on alternative therapies, such as acupuncture, yoga and foot reflexology, which “helped to kick-start…
Ask Horse Journal: 02/99
…also have a wide array of alternative therapies to choose from — acupuncture, laser, magnetic, electric, electromagnetic, light therapy, chiropractic. However, beware of words like “all” and “100%” and “miraculous.”…
Steroids: There Are Safer Nutritional Alternatives
…cell and the building of muscle. Anabolic Alternatives A number of nutritional supplements claim to duplicate one or more of the effects of anabolic steroids. Some focus on muscular development…
Identify and Treat Equine Sacroiliac Problems
…treatment and make a relapse less likely. Customize His Treatment Treatment should be customized to the individual case, Dr. Haussler says. Medication, reduced exercise, physical therapy and alternative therapies may…
Keep Your Competition Horse Going
…cases, possibly even heal it to a degree. The advances in alternative therapies — combined with effective herbal analgesics and/or anti-inflammatories and substances like DMSO and MSM — have lessened…