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Techniques of Equine Massage Therapy

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The application of horse massage is one of essential methods used to keep the animal in a perfect physical and emotional well being. It is a simple therapy that involves using hands and some light tools to give a horse a gentle and smooth body massage to calm his nervous system and improve the immune system. Every horse needs a regular massage to keep him in delightful mood and improve his overall health and emotional feelings, whether recreational or competitive horse. There are equine massage therapy schools near me where horse riders and owners are taught the basic and advanced methods of using body massage to calm the nervous system of a horse. The schools will teach participants the act of applying massage to improve communication between a horse and his owner or rider. They offer well designed programs to teach students the advanced techniques of helping horses to reach highest level of their performances. By stimulating their central nervous systems through thera

Horse TMJ massage

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Horse owners have several ways of keeping their most-cherished animals in good health and physical conditions and checking for problems in Temporo Mandibular joint is definitely one of them. This condition is known to affect the health, emotional and physical well being of horses and requires a quick and complete therapy by a qualified Vet. On the other hand, horse TMJ massage is the process of applying gentle and constant rub down of his temporo mandibular joint to relief him of pain and inflammation and other conditions related to it.  The TMJ is where a lower jaw and upper jaw of a horse are connected by passing through his skull bone. This joint is can be found at the base of ear and not far from the eye. It is like every other joints and quite visible on the side of the head when the horse chews. But in contrary to having the tip of its bone covered with hyaline cartilage like other joints in the elbow, fetlock and shoulder, it is covered with fibro cartilage. There