Horses just like us, get stressed, stiff, limited joint mobility due to lack muscle mobility, injury. Equine massage works by breaking down muscle adhesions that often up. By applying pressure and friction to an area across the grain of the muscle, massaging relaxes the tissue relieves the pain assiociated with stiff muscles, ligments and tendons.
Neuromuscular Massage:
Is an approach to soft tissue manual therapy in which pressure is applied to soft tissue to stimulate skeletal striated muscle. Often these areas of muscle are myofascial trigger points or tendor points.
Tendor points: pain just localized
Trigger points: refers pain to another area of the body
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Equine sports massage benefits the horse in so many ways it prevents injury, helps flexabilty, increase and improve circulation,Enhance muscle tone, Relax muscle spasms, Prevent and relieve adhesions, and it can also help with stress.
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