26/08/2025
🐴 Exciting Day at the Clinic! 🐴
Last week, we had the pleasure of welcoming Victoria South, an internal medicine specialist, to our clinic to perform Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (PENS) Therapy on one of our patients.
PENS therapy involves inserting a tiny probe just beneath the skin, next to the trigeminal nerve and gently stimulating the nerve for several minutes per treatment. Horses typically undergo a course of three treatments, spaced out over several days to assess any improvement.
This cutting-edge treatment is most commonly used for horses suffering from trigeminal-mediated headshaking — a frustrating and often distressing condition.
🧠 So what does headshaking look like? Common signs include:
Vertical (up and down), horizontal (side to side), or rotational (round and round) flicking of the head
Nostril twitching or facial grimacing
Nose twitching and lip smacking
Scrubbing the nose on the ground, legs, rider’s boots, or stable walls
Exaggerated snorting
We’re proud to be offering advanced diagnostic and therapeutic options like PENS therapy to help improve the comfort and quality of life for horses struggling with this condition.
If you think your horse might be showing signs of headshaking, don’t hesitate to get in touch 🐎💙
