Equine Sports Massage

• Improves Circulation
• Enhances muscle tone and range of motion
• Promotes the healing process
• Relieves tension
• Relaxes muscle spasms
• Restores free flowing motion
• Assists in balancing the body

• 60% of the horse's body weight is muscle
• Muscles damaged or not do not show up on x-rays
• Muscle problems are cumulative in nature. If one set of muscles is tight, the horse, like us, will have to compensate by tensing up and employing other muscles.
• Muscle soreness can be the result of injury, cooling down too fast, structural or systemic imbalance, overstretching or overuse/misuse.
• Muscles respond to stress or injury by hypercontraction. This results in unnecessary stress on an opposing muscle or joint.