Rehabilitation and conditioning for horses, on a working farm in Magnolia. Built around one horse at a time, alongside your veterinarian.
Nothing starts before the horse has been assessed here, in person, with its history in hand.
Every horse starts here. We look at the horse in front of us: how it is actually moving, what it has been compensating with, and what its history and any veterinary findings add to the picture. The program is built out of that assessment, with milestones written down in advance so progress is something you can check against.
Work aimed at pain, inflammation and mobility, before and alongside exercise.
Hands-on work to release restriction and get tissue moving again. Massage, myofascial release and therapeutic stretching, chosen for what the horse presents with on the day rather than run as a fixed routine.
Applied to the injured structure to work on pain and circulation while tissue is still healing. Used as a course inside the wider program, never as a treatment on its own.
For muscle that is guarding, or that has begun to waste during a spell off work. The aim is to keep tissue active through the stretch where the horse cannot yet be asked to do it itself.
The plainest part of the work, and often the part that earns its keep. Day to day management of swelling and inflammation, especially through the early weeks and after any step up in workload.
Controlled exercise that adds strength, balance and coordination in measured steps.
Hand walking built up on a schedule, and treadmill work where an even, controlled surface is what the horse needs. Load rises in planned steps. Each step has to be tolerated before the next one opens.
Asking the horse to pick its feet up, lengthen, and load the hind end on purpose. Poles and gradient are simple tools. They are also one of the more honest ways to see whether movement is coming back evenly.
Groundwork built around symmetry and the horse's own sense of where its feet are. This is usually what is missing when a horse looks sound in a straight line and still is not right.
Conditioning shaped around what the horse actually has to go back and do. A jumper heading for a ring and a horse going back to light hacking need different last chapters, so the program is built toward whichever one applies.
A horse in pain does not simply hurt in one place. It shifts weight off the sore limb, shortens a stride, borrows muscle groups that were never meant to do that job, and changes the way it carries itself. Those adjustments are protective at first. Left alone, they are also how one injury becomes a second one months later, somewhere else entirely.
So the work starts with the whole horse rather than one injury on a page. Two horses can arrive with the same injury, the same films, and the same prognosis, and still need different programs, because of what each one has been leaning on while it healed.
The first half settles things down. Before a horse can be asked to work, pain and inflammation have to come off and the tissue has to move freely again. The second half rebuilds the movement itself: strength, balance, coordination, and the horse's own sense of where its feet are. That part is progressive and it is measured. Each stage gets earned before the next one opens.
Rehabilitation here is its own program, run alongside the veterinary care your horse is already receiving. We stay in contact with your current veterinarian, and with your farrier and trainer, so everyone is working from the same picture of the horse. The program itself is built here and adjusted as the horse answers it. Milestones are set out in advance, so progress is something you can see rather than something you are asked to take on faith.
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