Every equine discipline carries its own inherent risk of injury!

Multi-disciplinary competitions carry even greater risks!

Your animal's performance is improved when its spine is freed from misalignments or vertebral subluxations. The spine can be subluxated for many reasons, the most obvious being that of injury.

However, there are chemical and behavioural influences that affect the spinal biomechanics as well. A subluxation that goes unnoticed results in a compensatory mechanism, which renders the performance less efficient. We liken this to walking around with a stone in your shoe. If you were unable to remove the irritation, you would eventually figure a way to walk in order to minimise pain. This is called compensation, and not only requires energy but decreases balance.

In the event of trauma caused by concussion, jarring and the like, it is the muscles that have to retain the alignment of the spine in order to protect the integrity of the spinal cord. This may mean that a portion of muscle contracts to its shortest length, effectively pulling part of the bone to which it was attached, out of line with the adjacent vertebrae.

Muscle spasm and tension, is the body's way of protecting itself against further injury, but at the same time it sets up asymmetry along the spine. After a time, this begins to affect the balance of the limbs and more distant areas of the back and neck.

Through the process of carrying out palpation on both the spine and the muscles, the animal chiropractor gains considerable information. By correcting vertebral subluxations and fixations and balancing the animal's body in other ways, chiropractic relieves major stresses on both the nervous system and the entire body. Besides relieving the effects or symptoms of dysfunction and disease, chiropractic also strives to remove their causes thereby increasing the body's ability to restore and maintain optimum health. The freeing up of the life-force energy in the animal allows the healing process to gather its own momentum and in its own time the disease state is alleviated.

Maintenance examinations and adjustments should always be part of preventative health care. These adjustments restore both the function of the nervous system and the biomechanics of movement before permanent lesions develop.

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