Georgia prides herself on providing a thorough session from start to finish. What to be expected throughout the process is detailed below, regardless of what purpose your horse has, from happy hackers to your high performance sport horses, the concept of equine bodywork is solely based on therapeutic techniques, increasing their ability to relax and release, to promote healthy healing and repair. Georgia uses an array of techniques and some veterinary approved tools such as the photizo light tool and fascial edge tool, all aimed at achieving optimum response in treating your horse. The purpose of any Musculosketal therapy is to improve health, wellbeing and mental concepts, vital to allow your horse to recover and repair, and then further allow for improvements in their overall movement.

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1.Discussion: Covering brief topics prior to the session start, mainly focused on what is the reasons are for the session, background information of your horse including work load, discipline focus and everyday life, previous injuries and also career goals. Following this will be an assessment.

 

2. Assessment: Your horse will then be assessed statically and dynamically, usually this involves a walk and trot up on the hard and soft surfaces (if appropriate) or lunging. This plays a bug part to how the session begins and areas that need focus.

 

3.Treatment: The session itself lasts around 1.5 to 2 hours long, this is a standard length of time for treatments with the main focus being on improvement, regardless of how small the improvement is. It could be as small as being able to pick your horses feet up without any hesitation to the movement. In the session there will be discussions on what techniques are being used, some areas that could be covered are sports therapy itself like trigger point release, Myofascial release including cranial sacral work, Kinesiology taping, stretches and use of infrared light therapy.

 

4.Owner homework: After the session, there will be a brief chat about how to further improve your horse post treatment. Don’t worry this will also be emailed to you, so no excuses to not do those stretches!! Options that might be encorporated post appointment could be focused pole work both ridden and in hand, stretches, different types of ridden exercises as well as ground work exercises, almost mini HIIT workouts for horse and rider! This is promoted to be and individual care package. After the session it is advised that your horse has a minimum of a day off, this is to allow the body both physically and mentally to recover and respond.