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The therapeutic benefits of stretching are well known to all people, either athletes or in need of improving flexibility or simply looking for relaxation. Today, stretching exercises are part of any training or fitness exercise program, as well as part of physiotherapy or massage therapy programs.  Because the physiological benefits of stretching upon the body

A busy training schedule causes the athletic horse a lot of undue stress, both physical and emotional.  The physical stress of exercising, the workload, the endurance, plus the travels and the competitions, all of that result in musculoskeletal tension and nervous fatigue.  Equally at the same time, your horse’s personality, his disposition, his fear, his

Performance horses, like human athletes, work very hard to reach top results, to run faster, to jump higher and to accurately execute technically difficult maneuvers. Often this high level of training comes at a price resulting in more musculoskeletal injuries, pain and prematurely worn-out animals. In a holistic approach, the equine massage awareness method addresses

The term physical maintenance employed here refers to the regular application of massage and stretching to relieve the build-up of muscular tension ranging from growing pain in the young horse to training workload for the more mature animal, not to mention various traumas that horses encounters in their journey through life. Excess amount of muscle