08/10/2026
🐎❄️ PERFORMANCE THERAPY — RECOVERY IS PART OF THE PROGRAM ❄️🐎
This barrel horse just finished a full weekend of competition, and her owner chose cryotherapy as preventative maintenance to support her recovery and help keep her feeling her best for the next event.
So what is she experiencing during this session?
As our CO₂ cryotherapy is applied, she feels an intense but controlled cooling sensation over the treatment area. The rapid cooling causes temporary vasoconstriction, narrowing the local blood vessels and decreasing blood flow to the area during application. This cooling response can help manage the normal inflammatory response, swelling, and soreness that may follow strenuous athletic activity.
Once the application ends and the tissues begin returning toward their normal temperature, blood flow increases again. This cooling-and-rewarming response can support circulation and recovery following demanding exercise.
Think about what a barrel horse’s body does throughout a competition weekend—acceleration, hard turns, collection, stopping, pushing off, and repeated muscular effort. Even when there is no injury, those demands can leave muscles and soft tissues fatigued and sore.
That’s why performance therapy isn’t only about treating an injury after it happens. Preventative maintenance and recovery are important parts of caring for an equine athlete.
This mare isn’t being treated because something is wrong. Her owner is being proactive about helping her recover from this weekend so she can continue doing what she loves and be ready for the next one. 💪🐴❤️
❄️ Revital Equine LLC
Performance • Recovery • Maintenance
📲 Call or text 412-491-2413 to schedule your horse’s session.