What is Equine Physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy involves the “functional assessment” of the horse, that is, how its muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints and bones are all working, the coordination of the horses movement, strength, power of propulsion and impulsion taking into account the stresses and strains of the job that we require the animal to do. All animals when assessed and treated appropriately from a veterinary-physiotherapy team can benefit and as with human medicine the animal usually requires input from both professions. It assess their gait and palpate their bodies looking for any signs of hypersensitivity, pain, loss of flexibility, laxity, differences in muscle development and dysfunction. A common referral for animal physiotherapy is the horse that has either lost performance or has not reached its potential; in many cases a specific problem has not been localized and the animal way not be lame but rather just not right, also can assess a horse to enable a program to be established and help prevent a in
