Pain: a Definition and Introduction: The International Association for the Study of Pain has defined pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.”1 Pain has a physical...
Movement is the foundation of life and without it, we and all other vertebrates would perish. We move our feet to get us to where our hands (or a horse’s hooves) need to be, in order to eat or do other tasks essential to our survival and well-being. If we agree that...
The title of this paper is a very legitimate question and one frequently asked when I am treating a horse with acupuncture. In some senses, it is a very difficult one to answer. There are lengthy books written to explain the mechanisms of acupuncture. Some...
Why Acupuncture and Chiropractic? – What can this combination do for your horse? – Is there synergistic (combined) action between these two health care systems? – Is it really a case of one plus one equals three? Neither of these modalities are an “instead of,” nor...
Introduction The commonly observed condition where the heel of one front foot is higher than the other has ramifications that extend well beyond the effects on the foot itself. This condition is also observed in the hind feet, though less frequently. However, because...
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