Does anyone use an equine osteopath?

[Tiarella]

Hi guys having a few niggly moments with the almighty ginger one and instructor recommend an osteopath. He gets checked over every 6 months by an amazing vet physio and always puts him right but apparently he could do with some fine tuning and manipulation through osteopathy. I watched vids on YouTube last night (really need to get out more!) and seen it done to the GP horses at work but does it actually work? Everyone says how amazing their horses are straight after the work, does it really work this fast?

Basically we are starting to have bending left through neck problems where he now just runs backwards if I ask and finding it difficult to track up again but they're from previous injuries - would osteo help this?

I also have -££ funds sooo if it doesn't work I'd rather not waste my money

 

[Firewell]

I have Gavin Scofield. He's amazing and I really notice a difference after he has been. He works with the horse to help itself permanently change it's posture. My horse is a different animal since Gavin.

 

[Herts05]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhP_aUVxwzg

Not sure if you have seen this clip. I think it works - I have been using Claire for years on both my horses and myself. Definitely seen a huge improvement

 

[Tiarella]

Thankyou both could I have a bit more info, like how many times do they come? Is it like every 6 months or till the horse has improved? It sounds a good thing as horse really does need tweaking and manipulating but I just can't afford treatment after treatment at the moment - damn horsebox mot!!

 

[philamena]

I do I've used physios, chiros and osteos and they all have their place as they all work slightly differently, but I am a really big fan of (good) osteopaths and now it would always be my first port of call. I've posted about this before but my current horse had deep seated problems develop from an old injury before I got her and it took quite a few investigations to get to the root of it. The chiros and physios who saw her got to some of it, or spotted and worked with some of the secondary issues it was causing, but never found the root of it, but she was radically different after just one (pretty involved!) osteo treatment. Even the McTimoney who'd seen her agreed that the issues diagnosed and treated by the osteopath were well beyond what that school of treatment would have been able to deal with.