Equine Bodywork
How can Orthobionomy
help your horse?
I have had experience in the past of helping horses with the following symptoms:
- Correct alignment of the pelvis - to reduce SI joint pain and hindleg lameness
- Rotation of the thorax - often helps with girthing issues and foreleg lameness
- Correct alignment of the neck vertebrae - to reduce neck pain and stiffness - often helps with bending on on a circle
- Joint stiffness and pain - hip, stifle, hock, fetlock and pastern, shoulder, elbow, carpal joint and hoof
- Back pain - unless caused by a badly fitting saddle!
- Myofascial release - to help with restricted movement and tension
- Trauma release, stress and nervousness
- Injuries, accidents and falls
- Scars
- Breathing difficulties and asthmatic symptoms
- Digestive and metabolic problems
1 hour Ortho-Bionomy treat(ment):
Horse £75, including travel over a 10 mile radius
from Ellesmere, then 50p/mile.
Rider £60
Useful Links:
Sustainability and self-correction for horse and rider - Equine Positional Release (EPR) in action:
Zarna Carter is an advanced Ortho-Bionomy practitioner working in Australia, the US and New Zealand. She uses Ortho-Bionomy and osteopathic techniques for the Equine Positional Release.
Horses are wonderful to work with because they are so authentic. When I offer them a way to help themselves to find their place of comfort, to release their pain, they accept and work together with me. Watching their body language, they are able to show me where they need and want me to work. I work with all horses, regardless of whether it is the local riding school pony or the Grand Prix dressage horse and they all have the same reactions! Yawning, tongue chewing, chilling and processing; their ears relaxed, their eyes soft, watching and listening to the healing changes occurring deep within their body.
I have found that horses who have already experienced the gentle orthobionomy methods will not let me work with structural osteopathic techniques. They will walk away. Orthobionomy is a unique (w)holistic way to treat a horse and they know it! With orthobionomy I work with the horse, not on the horse. When the horse has trust, lets go and begins to work with me, then wonderful releases of stress, tension and trauma can occur. In this way I have helped horses with similar issues to people, including the correct alignment of the pelvis so reducing pain in the SI joints, the back and the hind legs and realignment of the thorax and neck vertebrae, which often helps with girthing issues and lameness in the forelegs.
I teach equine bodywork courses to owners and riders following the principles of orthobionomy.
One thing to bear in mind though; if the pelvis of your horse is not straight, then your pelvis will also not be straight! It is therefore worth treating yourself, as well as your horse, to an orthobionomy session.