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20/05/2026

Equine massage case study

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Looking for horses in Co. Kildare for massage case study.

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Small tip to add to your horse care routine 🔆A 20-minute grooming session with a rubber curry comb can improve your hors...
20/05/2026

Small tip to add to your horse care routine 🔆

A 20-minute grooming session with a rubber curry comb can improve your horse’s muscle tone and overall wellbeing.

✅ Builds communication and trust.
✅ Increases blood flow to the skin, muscles, connective tissues.
✅ Supports lymphatic circulation.
✅ Helps your horse relax when done slowly and mindfully.

How to do it:

1️⃣ Start by lifting dust and loose hair with a soft brush.

2️⃣ Using a rubber curry comb, work from the neck to the hindquarters with circular movements and gentle pressure. Apply little shaking movements. Avoid bony areas. Watch your horse’s facial expressions and body language to see what feels comfortable.

3️⃣ Repeat each movement around 6 times on every area:
• Neck
• Shoulders
• Chest
• Back
• Sides
• Croup

Slow, consistent grooming combining cleaning, body care, relaxation, and communication ✨

Hands on 👐🏻Preevent massage for beautiful girl 💃🏻
29/03/2026

Hands on 👐🏻
Preevent massage for beautiful girl 💃🏻

Ginger ponies for case study 📚 Practicing elbow technique and remedial massage.Look so similar but completely different ...
26/03/2026

Ginger ponies for case study 📚
Practicing elbow technique and remedial massage.

Look so similar but completely different personality and requires a different approach ❤️🔆

Yawn & Chill before the action 🔥Sport massage and straight to saddle up. All techniques are use to pop up blood flow, wa...
08/02/2026

Yawn & Chill before the action 🔥
Sport massage and straight to saddle up.

All techniques are use to pop up blood flow, warm up muscles and bring more energy into the body before performing.

Thank you Hally and Orla you both was shining at completion 🔥✨ I much appreciate your trust and kind invitation to do this at completion day

Orla Harrington Dressage

More information in dm✨
14/12/2025

More information in dm✨

Massage day for Ruby ✨
29/11/2025

Massage day for Ruby ✨

An asymmetrical horse-surviving horse in the wild.I want to share my observations through my equestrian journey. In simp...
24/11/2025

An asymmetrical horse-surviving horse in the wild.
I want to share my observations through my equestrian journey. In simple words for every horse owner.

Horses are curved to varying degrees from birth. Injuries, improper training, atypical care (underline as appropriate) exacerbate the curvature. As a result, the horse's movements become biomechanically incorrect. This can lead to injury, the horse's lack of confidence in his movements, then in you, and finally to conflict behavior. More often than not, clogged muscles and lack of relaxation after riding can lead to gradually increasing pain.

Let's take a look at the first picture. That's Ted. He is completely crooked, but is still his owner's favorite horse.
After Ted, you can see my very exaggerated sketches of the muscles in action.
Tension in the muscles doesn't allow them to extend and flex the joints as well. And if the muscles aren't warmed up enough before work and Ted accidentally shifts sideways, there is the potential for even more stretching of the stretched muscle, leading to a tendon tear.
When working on straightening the horse, you will also be intentionally tearing tendons(a little). Only do this in a controlled and deliberate manner. This is called stretching. It can strengthen muscles and sometimes it can relax them. It always takes a lot of time and patience, doing all the movements slowly and gradually.
3. You can see how Ted loves his owner and try do his best through unpleasant movements. He cannot show his pain because he is an herbivore, prone to silence and patience. But there are some horses that are not so tolerant of pain. They are sometimes called "playful", "bold", "5 minutes on lunge".
But Ted had a good training and vet check. Now he capable to move with rider so easy. He wants to run together.
This was a good story, isn’t it?
You can see some samples of asymmetry. How muscles compensate for each other. There are 5 types of asymmetry, at least one your horse has. You can also take a photo of your horse and see them. Or show the photo to me to find them. There are also many ways to clarify exactly where these asymmetries come from. But that's for another time sometime.

But first you need to take seriously the question of feeding, walking and the company of your horse friend. Also inspect the tack very carefully: it must fit, be clean, and don't put it on a dirty horse. This can lead to scuffs on the horse. Pay attention to the rogs as well as the saddle, the wrong harness can be harmful.
And then you can develop your horse body with training ✨
I hope you find this monologue useful Written with a temperature of 39.1.
I hope you enjoy Ted🤗
Thanks for your reading 🙌🏻

18/11/2025

Irish cob Foxy 🐴
Since March I mind & school him till November. But time is over and it’s a moment to say goodbye 👋🏻

He was really fresh and didn’t really understand how to behave with people. He had lots of concerns about new things to do, but he trusted me so easily, so than he enjoyed our gymnastics & tricks & inhands work.

This video just an ending remind. It’s not perfect but it’s don’t have to be perfect. I really would love to show before and after results but I really have few videos.

At this age, it’s more about relax, answer the signals and confidence. Balance it’s something what we get by piece though the time⏳
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Maybe your horse will like gymnastics as well?

How cute are they and their muzzle❤️❤️❤️✨📌Do you know that asymmetrical nostril may show tence in poll? 📌It is important...
16/11/2025

How cute are they and their muzzle❤️❤️❤️✨

📌Do you know that asymmetrical nostril may show tence in poll? 📌

It is important to take care of every part of the horse, and this little trick can tell you about horse tack or training.

✅Successful 2 case studies so far.
📎Also I open for 5 more case studies in equine massage therapy.
Text me to discuss details 📝🔎

11/11/2025

Relax & Release still working on your horse after massage. It depends of massage type and techniques how long effect will stay. Also this factore create special after care for individual horse 🐴

You can see Hally show her relaxed body&mind by sweet yawning ❤️

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