Equine Sports & Remedial Massage Practitioner Course
Equine Sports and Remedial Massage is a range of complementary therapies, encompassing soft tissue and joint mobilisation, used to help maintain the performance and behaviour of the horse and reduce the risk of re-injury, together with helping the healing process following injury as part of the horses’ rehabilitation.
This course will give you the knowledge, confidence and clinical reasoning skills enabling you to become a safe, competent, experienced professional equine sports and remedial massage therapist with a good grounding experience in canine rehabilitation.
This course will give you a comprehensive understanding of equine anatomy and physiology, together with a varied range of therapy techniques encompassing –
An animal can suffer from back, neck, pelvic and musculo-skeletal problems that could manifest themselves in several ways, including -
Some of the most common areas where therapy can be used are:
Some of the conditions that can be helped by Sports and Remedial Massage Therapy:
This course will give you the knowledge, confidence and clinical reasoning skills enabling you to become a safe, competent, experienced professional equine sports and remedial massage therapist with a good grounding experience in canine rehabilitation.
This course will give you a comprehensive understanding of equine anatomy and physiology, together with a varied range of therapy techniques encompassing –
- Both light and deep tissue massage,
- Light touch release techniques (LTR) and soft tissue rolling (by your4legs) related to body trigger points
- Myofascial release techniques
- Joint mobilisation techniques designed to improve and maintain range of motion.
- Exercises to help improve the horses’ core strength, balance, and flexibility, which can be used as part of rehabilitation and lifestyle management
An animal can suffer from back, neck, pelvic and musculo-skeletal problems that could manifest themselves in several ways, including -
- Becoming un-level or unbalanced during ridden work
- Showing changes in hoof / shoe wear
- Unexplained reduction in performance
- Developing excessive stiffness on one side
- Unexplained muscular asymmetry
- Unexplained behaviour changes during handling / riding - refusing to go forwards, rearing or bucking, becoming lethargic, biting
Some of the most common areas where therapy can be used are:
- Enhancement of quality of life for horses with degenerative conditions such as arthritis, where therapy can be used to help slow the condition and manage soft tissue tensions arising from compensation
- Performance enhancement and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries – as part of the rehabilitation process and ongoing as part of the horses’ lifestyle management
Some of the conditions that can be helped by Sports and Remedial Massage Therapy:
- Sore/bruised muscles
- Muscle and tendon strain and tension
- Muscle asymmetry
- Injury to tendons and ligaments of the legs and joints
- Help to ease pain in arthritic and diseased joints and slow down further degeneration
- Improving and maintaining range of movement and muscle tone
- Assist wound repair to minimise scarring and proud flesh
- Routine checks and maintenance
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