It’s All About Performance

Chiropractic care for your horses is all about performance. It’s different than veterinary medicine! What does that mean? Veterinary medicine is intended to help cure or heal your animals when they become sick or injured. If your horse has an injured tendon, broken bone, colic, cysts, dehydration, etc. then please don’t bring your horse to a chiropractor! They need to see the expert, which is the veterinarian. However, if you have a performance animal, and you want to get the absolute best performance out of them, then call the chiropractor!

Chiropractic care was never intended to be used as a way of treating symptoms. Yes, I know many people go to the chiropractor because they have headaches, neck pain, back pain, etc. But that’s not what it was intended to be used for. Chiropractic simply stated, allows the body to function at its best, regardless what the “best” is for that particular body. For performance horses, what we are trying to do is squeeze that little bit extra out of the toothpaste tube. For barrel racers, an adjustment prior to a race, may mean getting that extra 3 tenths of a second off your time. For a pleasure horse, it may mean getting that little bit of extra flexion out of a fetlock to allow for full extension of a leg. For a reiner, it may mean getting that slightly quicker spin, or cleaner stop. For trained riders, that little bit makes a huge difference! Not only for the…