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30 The Game, March 2007 Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
Special Advertorial Feature
Health & Nutrition 2007
Equine Health
by Karen Briggs
Dave Landry Photo
Light Therapy can ad 100% Improvement to Conditioning and Training Schedules
Light Therapy is still an unknown to a lot of people, but it is finally being recognized as a valuable tool in providing body balance, comfort and power to the competitive horse. It is now available for those who are interested. Don’t pass up this learning opportunity that could give your horse the winning edge.
A short Insight by Wendy Gower of Quarter Ridge - Home of The Light Infuser.
The Light Infuser is made of L.E.D. lights. To describe simply what they do, the lights penetrate into the body cells stimulating them to become what was normal before body wear and tear, stiffness and injury. The results are fast and amazing to watch as the body appears to return to a more balanced look. We see the horse immediately becoming comfortable, more mentally stable, willing horse. Power and strength become obvious as flexibility as becomes apparent. A very unique tool that enhances the horse’s ability to move and perform at his 100% mental and physical best.
As we are applying the lights, typically we see yawning, and a softer, calm, comfortable eye, obvious relief in tight body parts. The horse with a boney top line {back} and quarters begins to look rounder and fuller in those difficult areas before your eyes. Leg swellings can be reduced as you watch.
As the horse is led away we see an opening and
lengthening of stride. Their leg movement appears a bit loose and uncertain as the lights undo stiff and tight areas. Original length of stride is being returned. The horse is very comfortable and relaxed going back to his stall. The Lights are simple to apply. You can do direct areas like back, shoulder and tendon. You can do acupuncture points as well.
Requirements to use the lights are basic horse knowledge, common sense and observation abilities.” The more you use the lights, the more situations you find you can apply them to.” Light Therapy is a sophisticated tool of the future, enabling the hands that hold them to upstage a horse’s condition, smooth out small problems before they become a major interference to a horse’s over all performance.
Quarter Ridge’s unique Services available are: A Total Movement Evaluation, recognizing weak body parts before lameness occurs; Light Therapy Sessions; Rental and Sales of Light Infuser; Pure Herbs/Vitamins; Exercise programs to strengthen weak or none performing body parts.
Keep your talented youngster 100% effective.
For additional information on Light therapy and its any uses, go to www.quarterridge.com Contact Wendy at 1.519.658.4889 or e-mail at quarterridge@sympatico.ca.
GETTING OFF ON THE RIGHT FOOT
What’s the difference between a good foot and a bad foot?
In functional terms, a horse who grows a good hoof can hold a shoe, doesn’t suffer splits or cracks, isn’t much bothered by stone bruises – in short, one whose hooves don’t limit his performance.
Unfortunately, there are many horses out there who have less-than- perfect feet. There are thin hoof walls that don’t hold up under repeated pounding on hard surfaces. There are dry, shelly hooves and ones that crumble like cork when you try to drive a horseshoe nail. There are hooves with contracted heels or run-under heels, with all the shock absorption problems that implies. There are hooves that harbour fungus and bacterial infections which continually compromise the health of the outer horn and the inner tissues it protects. And that’s without considering the hooves damaged by laminitis, injury, incorrect shoeing or other incidents of bad karma.
Genetics and environment both have a role to play in the formation of a horse’s foot, but nutrition is an element which is frequently under-rated. At the second International Equine Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot, held in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2003, Connie Swenson Ph.D. (a research nutritionist with ZinPro Corporation), outlined some of the nutritional ingredients in a good foot, emphasizing that balance is key. “You can’t just focus on one nutrient,” said Swenson. “There are many nutrients which affect growth, and protein and energy are the first limiting nutrients.” In other words, if they are not present in sufficient amounts, the horse’s
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