How Many People will use Alternative Therapies for their Horses

[XxYingYangxX]

Hi Guys
Just a question, how many people will or have considered using alternative therapies for their horses. Like equine sports massage, aromatherapy etc. I just wondered how many people would be willing to use them.

Cheers
Lotti x

 

[rubyred]

Is massage really still considered alternative?

 

[XxYingYangxX]

Its apparently so, after looking through sooooo many websites.

 

[mollymurphy]

Does hydrotherapy count? Murph went to a hydro centre for 4 weeks. Was in the spa twice a day.

 

[fizzer]

i use reiki which is a complementary therapy, i also have bowen and sports massge work

 

[samp]

When my horse was written off by the vets I used an Equine sports therapist. This horse that the vets said would be a happy hacker if that only attended her yard for 10 days and went back out to get double clears at 1.10, go XC and is still hunting and doing RC team SJ with his new owners. I will give most things a go once. I have Reiki on myself

 

[ISHmad]

Yes, quite happy to use alternative therapies on my horses, but complimentary to veterinary treatment, not in place of it.
I am a reiki practitioner, although only do it on my own and friend's horses, not as a business. And have used Bach flower remedies, aromatherapy oils, Bowen treatments, sports massage, animal communicators and probably other things too for the horses.

 

[11davisk]

Hi ISH_Mad! My horse Clancy has Protein Losing Enteropathy. Her bowels are twice the normal thickness and she doesn't absorb much protein at all. She is pregnant and on steroids. She will more than likely lose the foal soon due to the weight loss and steroids. Do you know of any alternative therapies that might help this? I'm open to anything at this point. Any ideas would be helpful! Thanks!!

 

[ISHmad]

Hi Clancy, sorry, I have only just seen your post. I don't know anything about Protein Losing Enteropathy,but it sounds truly awful. Hope that your mare and unborn foal come through this okay.

I see you are in the States, so don't know quite what is available there. But in addition to whatever the vet has recommended there would be no harm in trying reiki. It can't do any harm even if it didn't do anything, and could just help.

There is also a site here called something like Metabolic Horse run by a lady called Jackie Taylor, who is an excellent horse nutrutionalist. She may have some ideas as to what you could feed to try to help your mare and her baby. If you can't find it on Google let me know and I will try to find it for you.

Sorry there isn't anything further I can do to help, but hope the above is useful for you. Let me know who she gets on bless her.

 

[11davisk]

Thanks ISH_Mad!! I will check into what you said. The vets haven't offered much hope. They are saying that the steroids more than likely will kill the foal and not cure Clancy but prolong it instead. I'll keep you posted. Any more posts I do I will just put 'Clancy' in the subject line.

 

[ISHmad]

Good luck Clancy