Chiropractic for Winners
Even champions have
off days!
Highly-tuned competitors can be put off stride by
quite subtle problems. Since a very small loss of performance can mean
prize-winners being unplaced, these problems can be critical.
All equine athletes can benefit from
chiropractic treatment. Improvements in competition performance may be dramatic,
consistency can be improved and working life-time can also be extended.
Vav Simon has years of experience doing
this. She brings a unique talent to her post-graduate training for animal
chiropractic, which follows the training for humans. She is known for solving
puzzling problems – sometimes producing miracles.
Had sciatica?
Sciatic pain can shoot all down your leg without
warning. It slows you down, puts you in a bad mood, and lowers your
expectations. Sciatica originates from the small of your back, where one nerve
gets pinched. Animals can feel a similar discomfort. So treatment aims to
release that pinch. And the pain can disappear in seconds.
Important nerves pass very close to most of
the body’s joints. If the bones get moved out of alignment, they can sometimes
pinch these nerves. This is like stepping on a hosepipe – reducing the messages
to and from the muscles. No wonder movement is reduced!
Thorough assessment
Every visit, Vav assesses the whole of the horse’s
body. This is because the cause can be a long distance from the area affected,
and sometimes there are several causes. She explains what she has found, and can
then treat the horse immediately.
Vav works with horses competing on the flat,
over jumps, in dressage and shown in hand, as well as those in other forms of
work. She finds problems caused by injury like kicks and slips or even flu’, or
a variety of repetitive asymmetrical forces like saddle problems or foot
imbalance.
Cost-effective
treatment
In the treatment, she
realigns bones by hand. This ensures all the joints are working at their
strongest, and all the nerves are moving muscles at their most efficient. A
follow-up visit two weeks later confirms the improvement. Usually, your horse
can return to work after a day or two.
Vav can help with a much wider range than
most people expect. Lameness, rearing or bucking, or refusing fences or turns,
are easier to identify. But a puzzling loss of performance can also stem from
subtle misalignments. Popular because it is so cost-effective – chiropractic is
a champion therapy! |
