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delighted Joan Mundy with Feroree. |
Stourbridge
Horse and Owner Benefit From Physiotherapy System
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PHYSIOTHERAPY system developed for horses has also proved
a huge success for the owner of a Holstein stallion.
The
Equissage pad has both helped to ease Joan Mundy of her
eczema as well as improving the soundness of Feroree a 17.3hh
Holstein breeding stallion.
Said
Joan of Kinver, Stourbridge: "When I bought Feroree,
a 13-year-old old former Grade B showjumper, 18 months ago
I knew that he had damaged both his stifles - one used to
completely lock - in an accident. He was also suffering
from muscle wastage.
"Three
months after starting treatment he is not yet 100 per cent
but is looking a lot stronger and is nearly there. You can
tell he is feeling better. I started off using the pad everyday,
then dropped to twice a week.
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"We
are expecting Feroree, who has fantastic action, to be sound enough
to compete in the summer. He will be ridden by my son, Timothy,
an elite under 21 dressage rider who is currently training with
Ferdi Eilberg.
"One
of our other horses a German 17.1hh four-year-old jarred his shoulder
while playing in the paddock. We used the pad and the Equissage
hand unit which did a super job of getting him right again."
Joan,
a lupus sufferer, decided to use the pad on herself after being
taken off medication at the end of last October which resulted
in severe eczema on both legs.
"I
used it once for five minutes and the eczema disappeared. It has
never returned. At the time I thought 'in for a penny, in for
a pound'. I am over joyed."
The
Equissage pad gives a deep cycloidal massage to the whole horse
and due to the unique action of the therapy, the pad actively
improves circulation, eases and tones muscles, and promotes lymphatic
drainage.
Equissage
Agent Sally Prichard with Joan Mundy and Feroree.
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