Chiropractic for Horses

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Chiropractic care is often used to treat conditions affecting the human musculoskeletal system.  Chiropractic care can also benefit the health of horses. Horses can greatly benefit from equine chiropractic care to help treat injuries, relieve pain, and restore mobility.

Poor performance -Abnormal posture -Changes in behavior-Lameness-Stiffness-Back, neck, or tail pain-Head tilt-Uneven Hips-Uneven muscles

-Hesitation to do regular things-Sensitivity to touch-Sensitive nerves-Ears pinning back-Difficulty moving in different positions or directions-Limited motion-Joint pain and motion-Muscle Tension-Uneven Gait-Holding head or tail abnormally-Hollow topline-Refusing Jumps-Muscle Atrophy

Choose to keep your healthy athletic horse functioning at their highest level with regular Chiropractic care. Whether you are running barrels, riding trails, roping, cutting, dressage, carriage pulling, jumping, ect, daily stressors can add up and effect the joints, muscles, and nerves.

A subluxation is abnormal movement within a joints normal range of motion. These are the segments we adjust. The spine is a complex framework of bones (vertebra), ligaments, muscles and nerves. If the movement and biomechanics of the vertebra become dysfunctional, they can interfere with the performance of the nerves that are branching off of the spinal cord and going to the all of the muscles and organs. As this occurs, your animal can lose normal mobility; resulting in stiffness, tension, pain and even organ dysfunction.  

Animals do not get adjusted quite the same way humans do. Their anatomy requires lower force, and does not generally produce an audible sound. We use gentle thrusts on specific joints to correct subluxations and restore proper function. If you have seen some of the sensational viral videos with huge reactions- that is not Chiropractic! It is so important you only trust your animals to qualified and highly trained Animal Chiropractors. 

After an adjustment it is generally recommended to give your horse the day off of work, but they can get turned out to graze and allow time for the fine tuning of their nervous system to balance.