CEAT is dedicated to helping trainers, riders,
breeders and owners to acheive the very best health & performance
possible for their horses through the use of a professional,
gentle,
holistic and non-invasive treatment.
Like people, horses suffer from
back, neck, pelvic and musculoskeletal problems and, like us, they
can benefit from animal chiropractic
and physical therapy
The concept of treatment and rehabilitation
during athletic performance and that following injury is an accepted
part of human sports
medicine. These same principles can be applied to Equine Sports
Medicine
Whilst they are strong and capable of doing this,
horses have to contend with us being at a 90 degree angle on top of
them,
sitting
at the
mid-point of their spine, and thus changing their natural centre of gravity and balance. We then ask them to jump for us,
run races, work in collection, play fast turning games and dance
to music.
In a similar way to humans and horses, cattle can very easily
sufffer from musculoskeletal problems that can affect their
health. Working
bulls with pelvic problems have been helped through chiropractic
adjustment.
In the same way that chiropractic during pregnancy
and after birth can prevent problems in humans, it has been found
that
cows benefit
from adjustment. A "Downer Cow" can be caused by
a variety of problems, but where calving has caused motion
restrctions in the
lumbar and sacropelvic regions resulting in limb weakness & ataxia (from Greek
ataxiÇ ,
meaning disorder -is unsteady and clumsy motion of the limbs
or trunk due to a failure of the fine coordination of muscle
movements) chiropractic
has be shown to be of great benefit.
We have successfully treated lambs who have had trauma to their necks at birth, who before treatment had difficulty in getting round the paddock
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