ARC Equine Unit

The only thing I can say philamena is keep using it!!

I felt it took a while to 'build up' to being effective - if you know what I mean! Plus stay in contact with Arc, I found it fantastic to be able to give them progress reports and then Ian would recommend the programmes to use & for how long.

My horse has a secondary issue aswell which it seems to be helping with aswell which is a bonus. For the last few years, he had some pretty severe bouts of lymphangitis, to which there was a no cause, no cure diagnoses. He always came out of them sound but the leg that was affected was left looking & feeling 'thick' due the strain & pressure the tissue was put under after getting the lypmhangitis repeatedly.

Now the leg is looking less thick and really looks like a matching pair for the other leg! I am really hoping that the repair to the tissue will help with either preventing the lymphangitis from returning or at least lessen the severity of it if he does get it again. Plus I know I have something now that can help him if he does get it again!

Honestly - best money I ever spent!!!
 
I've got two horses here that I could really do with this machine for. Went onto the website last night, and they aren't supplying them ATM. Anybody prepared to rent one to me until I can source one?? Or give names of other suppliers ( chances are minimal, I know)
 
cundlegreen said:
I've got two horses here that I could really do with this machine for. Went onto the website last night, and they aren't supplying them ATM. Anybody prepared to rent one to me until I can source one?? Or give names of other suppliers ( chances are minimal, I know)
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Email them!! They wont be out of supply for long - I think they are due in stuff next week (I only know cause I'm waiting on leg gel :) ) but email them & they are very helpful so will let you know & get it out to you as soon as they can!
 
LegOn said:
The only thing I can say philamena is keep using it!!

I felt it took a while to 'build up' to being effective - if you know what I mean! Plus stay in contact with Arc, I found it fantastic to be able to give them progress reports and then Ian would recommend the programmes to use & for how long.

My horse has a secondary issue aswell which it seems to be helping with aswell which is a bonus. For the last few years, he had some pretty severe bouts of lymphangitis, to which there was a no cause, no cure diagnoses. He always came out of them sound but the leg that was affected was left looking & feeling 'thick' due the strain & pressure the tissue was put under after getting the lypmhangitis repeatedly.

Now the leg is looking less thick and really looks like a matching pair for the other leg! I am really hoping that the repair to the tissue will help with either preventing the lymphangitis from returning or at least lessen the severity of it if he does get it again. Plus I know I have something now that can help him if he does get it again!

Honestly - best money I ever spent!!!
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Thanks LegOn, I didn’t mean for it to sound like I’m not happy with it, I am  And Ian’s been very helpful. I just know that when I was considering investing I wanted as much detail as poss on what effects people had seen and where they’d felt it was effective etc, so am kind of updating as I go along. Actually you’ve reminded me, I’d told Ian I’d update after 3 weeks or so, so I’ll drop him an email.
 
My tb horse written off for eventing with collaterall ligament damage has been wearing hers overnight for a while now, she was a right diva, would charge around the field bucking and leaping almost daily, diving and twisting on her dodgy feet, she invariably came in lame every night, i was at the end of my tether with her as i hoped to at least get a hacking horse :(i used to watch her and cry . She has had a year off and is coming back into work at the end of June, hopefully she'll stay sound enough to be a pleasure horse. She was still obviously lame 9 months into her rest period and tbh it didnt look good.
She is now only about 1/10 lame on a tight circle on hard ground, has stopped flying up and down the field like a maniac and trying to wind up the others, all since using the arc unit. It appears to have settled her head and helped with the time off as her lameness was at one time 4/10 and 3/10 on both front feet.
The lameness has decreased since using the arc unit, but the buzzy, whizzy behaviour has completely stopped. For me its been a good piece of kit and im so glad i got it when i did.
 
That's really interesting Marydoll. I know they're using it in humans who've suffered trauma and that it has effects on mental well being, so that's really interesting. How long have you been using it and how long before you began to see the behaviour change? Not for any reason other than that I'm interested!
 
I started using it , i think mid March, she is turned out every day from light till dark and stabled overnight. Ive used the reducing inflammation settings then the regeneration settings which im still using at the moment. I started to see the change in her behaviour within a day or 2 and the lameness was a more gradual change. I cant express the huge difference in her behaviour, the galloping around the field used to make me want to weep as i knew her ligaments were very inflammed and the joint integrity comprimised because of it, so i knew that behaviour was doing more damage. I was given the go ahead by my vet to re start ridden work a few weeks ago but ibe chosen to give her the full year off .
I'll start out gradually building up ridden time to short hacks in walk and hope to build hacking time up over the summer gradually introducing trot and canter, im in no rush and will take a good few months to do this, i will continue to use my arc machine on her at maintainance level. Im also going to have her feet x rayed again at some point to see what, if any further changes have taken place.
 
I'd really love to hear any more updates from people.
I bought an Arc Equine unit in April for an event horse that was out of work for 2 years with a check ligament injury that just wasn't seeming to heal up. :(

After about two months of using the unit, I don't really see a huge amount of difference, although I guess a scan will only tell for sure. I had him scanned a week or two before buying the unit and the vet said to work on cautiously with him. So he is in work, albeit gentle, but the swelling of the check ligament injury goes up and down, particularly if he has been standing in doing nothing.

To be fair, when he has been in overnight and wearing the unit (which is pretty much every night), the swelling is always at its smallest, but I just wish I was seeing a more definite improvement at this point. :(

Anyone else got any updates?
 
Like Philamena above, I've changed a couple of things at the same time (moved yards, more turnout, took shoes off) but at Christmas I had a horse with a distinct shortness of stride on right fore when lunged left, and very grumpy/unwilling to move forward, would stress in stable, weave even standing on yard, crib at any available opportunity... I was hacking in back protector and if weather anything less than calm, draw reins, as he had taken to dropping shoulder and spinning. He had prior to that done 3 months box rest and 3 months field rest, but we never actually knew what was wrong.

Yesterday we were messing around with canter half pass and 1/4 piris, after he had waited quietly on yard for me to finish chatting, having been in all day with just a stall chain across door. I then took his saddle off and hacked him round the canter track bareback to cool off. I wouldn't have even entertained the idea 6 months ago of sitting on him bareback, he would have freaked.

So I don't know if its the Arc, the yard move, just that he is happier generally for some reason, but something worked, I have got my old horse back!

I've just started using it on my older boy now as Roo has done his recommended 6 week intensive programme and now has it once a month and travelling to/from lessons/comps or after a canter work session. Older boy has a touch of arthritis so I am hoping will help him too.
 
Hi can I ask how all those using the Arc get on securing it in place overnight. I put gamgee over my unit and stable bandage , but a few times he has pulled at bandages ( think because he gets hot) then gets the unit off . Any pics would be good. I am thinking of getting the PE leg wraps to use instead to put over the unit
 
andreo said:
Hi can I ask how all those using the Arc get on securing it in place overnight. I put gamgee over my unit and stable bandage , but a few times he has pulled at bandages ( think because he gets hot) then gets the unit off . Any pics would be good. I am thinking of getting the PE leg wraps to use instead to put over the unit
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Do you have the new connection pads, or the older style ones? Because it's probably worth mentioning this to Ian if you have the older style ones, and seeing what he says.
 
andreo said:
Hi can I ask how all those using the Arc get on securing it in place overnight. I put gamgee over my unit and stable bandage , but a few times he has pulled at bandages ( think because he gets hot) then gets the unit off . Any pics would be good. I am thinking of getting the PE leg wraps to use instead to put over the unit
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I hild mine in place with a premiere equine leg wrap, the cotton wrap is fitted into the neoprene wrap which gastens with velcro, its never moved and this horse lies down in her stable
 
Kerrili I think it's the older one but the connections are fine it's just horse who removes it if doesn't fancy he bandages on :-)

Marydoll that's what I was thinking about doing, is your stable wrap fixed to the neoprene or just put on top :)
 
I have bought at ARC equine unit this morning, can't wait to get it and start using it on my old girl.

I did see a post a few days ago about the shop being offline, it is now back online for anyone who needs anything!
 
I've just ordered one of these this morning after waiting for the shop to come back online! looking forward to trying it on my two accident prone ponies :-)
 
I've ordered mine too for my mare's cruciate ligament injury. Hoping it works wonders and can't wait for it to arrive!
 
Just to horses taking it off, I used the device on myself - positive review btw - and found it occasionally very uncomfortable. This seems to be a relatively rare experience but I know I'm not the only person to have it. I persevered in the knowledge that it wasn't killing me but if I'd been a horse I would have taken it off asap!!

I would say again, I'm quite pro but would urge anyone using the product to do some independent reading on microcurrent technology before slapping it on their horse.
 
If its not fitted right having used mct on myself, its like being stung by wasps :eek: not pleasent, use the gel and make sure all the green lights are flashing .
I use the full legwrap liner and outer, never had an issue other than her stamping when the connection wasnt right, i altered it and she was fine
 
Tbh, I had the stinging no matter what I did. It almost always happened through the initial cycle and then intermittently throughout. It wasn't the unit because it didn't do it to everyone and I know other people who've had the same experience.

Again, not a reason not to try it, just a heads up. I find threads on therapies like this tend to be 'all good' or 'all bad' but nothing is like that. Better to know the potential risks as well as the possible rewards.
 
Sadly we've not had a good outcome with our mare. We used the ARC and until about a month ago everything was looking good. The latest scan showed that the fibres in her hind suspensory had grown back and were looking good, so my daughter started to gradually increase her work. Then about 3 weeks ago she began to feel that something wasn't right and then Velvet went completely lame again in trot. We started the ARC course from the beginning again, but by this week she still wasn't sound, but as there was no heat or inflamation we couldn't understand what was wrong. We took her back to Oli Crowe at Bushy who confirmed with a scan and an xray that there was more damage to the top of the suspensory but it was quite deep, hence no heat or swelling.

Operations of any kind would not be an option in his opinion, so we have taken the decision to retire her and put her into foal. If we are lucky, then in 18 months time Oli feels there is a chance she could be ok but realistically we know that she'll never return to eventing at the level she was. She's a fantastic mare with a lovely nature and will always be a part of our family, but it's so heartbreaking for my daughter who brought her on from a green 4 year old to complete a couple of CIC*'s last year. My daughter always hoped Velvet would be her "Badminton Horse" - sadly that's not to be, but you never know, she may become the mum of a future Badminton horse.

I do feel the ARC helped and it definitely cured a couple of other issues - but maybe there was a weakness there that it couldn't fix. Anyway, I would say to all those using it - keep doing so, I do think it's an excellent piece of equipment.
 
I have one horse who doesn't fiddle with it at all so I stitched a small pocket onto the inside of a thermatex leg wrap, and his just slides into there and stays put fine, older boy fiddles with leg wraps so I have to bandage his on, I find tucking the delivery unit between the two layers of the bandage padding where they overlap, then bandaging over the top, seemed to work better than having the delivery unit simply between the wrap and bandage, if that makes sense?
 
I've not used it on a bone problem with a horse but with Ian's advice I had a great outcome on myself.

I fractured both ends of the fibula and found out about the ARC whilst bedbound and ordered one.

I had the unit on the good leg whilst in plaster and then on to the healing leg once the cast was off. The cast was removed after 3 1/2 weeks following in cast x rays and the Consultant pronounced me 3 months ahead of schedule in the healing process. I did a lot of positive nutritional work also to speed up the healing (self employed no time to be in bed!) but am convinced this helped.

I was really impressed... :D
 
nevis said:
I've not used it on a bone problem with a horse but with Ian's advice I had a great outcome on myself.

I fractured both ends of the fibula and found out about the ARC whilst bedbound and ordered one.

I had the unit on the good leg whilst in plaster and then on to the healing leg once the cast was off. The cast was removed after 3 1/2 weeks following in cast x rays and the Consultant pronounced me 3 months ahead of schedule in the healing process. I did a lot of positive nutritional work also to speed up the healing (self employed no time to be in bed!) but am convinced this helped.

I was really impressed... :D
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Interesting - particularly about the nutrition - I will investigate further!
 
In terms of securing it - I've had no issues, horse doesnt seem to have an issue with it at all! Despite getting a few scabs from the unit, he doesnt seem bothered to have it on.

I put some gamgee around the delivery unit & then I have a short bandage which I have cut to go for 3 wraps around the leg & then I cover the whole lot in a Premier Equine stable boot. Stays secure all night!

I know someone who is putting an eventing boot on over it & when that crib stuff that stops from them getting it off!!

I think the most important thing I learnt from Ian was - patience & time! I gave it more time that I thought it would take & then was more patient with the rehab that I would normally be. Took everything at snails pace & I think its paid off in the long run :)
 
Shop is back open again for anyone who is looking for it!

Seems like there is a new style leg pad aswell!
 
KosmicArab said:
Sadly we've not had a good outcome with our mare. We used the ARC and until about a month ago everything was looking good. The latest scan showed that the fibres in her hind suspensory had grown back and were looking good, so my daughter started to gradually increase her work. Then about 3 weeks ago she began to feel that something wasn't right and then Velvet went completely lame again in trot. We started the ARC course from the beginning again, but by this week she still wasn't sound, but as there was no heat or inflamation we couldn't understand what was wrong. We took her back to Oli Crowe at Bushy who confirmed with a scan and an xray that there was more damage to the top of the suspensory but it was quite deep, hence no heat or swelling.

Operations of any kind would not be an option in his opinion, so we have taken the decision to retire her and put her into foal. If we are lucky, then in 18 months time Oli feels there is a chance she could be ok but realistically we know that she'll never return to eventing at the level she was. She's a fantastic mare with a lovely nature and will always be a part of our family, but it's so heartbreaking for my daughter who brought her on from a green 4 year old to complete a couple of CIC*'s last year. My daughter always hoped Velvet would be her "Badminton Horse" - sadly that's not to be, but you never know, she may become the mum of a future Badminton horse.

I do feel the ARC helped and it definitely cured a couple of other issues - but maybe there was a weakness there that it couldn't fix. Anyway, I would say to all those using it - keep doing so, I do think it's an excellent piece of equipment.
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So sorry to hear about Velvet, that must be gutting. I hope she has a lovely baby :)
 
It has been very upsetting - but we've got to look at the positive. At least she's still with us and you never know, may be in 2 years time she will be ok to return to lower level competitions. In a way it was nice that her last outing at BE was also her best result, so her career ended on a good note. Now we're looking forward to visiting West Kington Stud this weekend to hopefully meet with her future husband :)
 
Hi, I had a good result on myself. Out of interest has anyone recieved the rug yet? I know they were trialling one and they were going to be forwarded on, but that was nearly a year ago now.
 
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