Equine Massage Horse Health Conditions

Video Transcript

"You need to keep in mind your horse's physical condition when you're messaging. If you are working on a horse at the beginning of the riding season, many people give their horses the winter off so they don't have to contend with snow and ice. At the beginning of the season they're either going to have less muscle mass over all or they're going to have a slack muscle tone so you need to pay attention to that. If it's at the end of a competition or the end of the season when their muscles are more developed and their muscled are going to be tighter, you are still going to need to pay attention to how much pressure you are using , but in general you'll be able to use more pressure. If the horses gets, if your horse gets tired under work, they're going to get tired more easily with a message too. You're still working their muscles just in a more passive sort of a way. So just keep those things in mind when you're working on them. Keep in mind things like the muscle development of their top line. The muscle development of the hind quarters, muscle development in their bicep area and the pectoral area, their fore legs, and just when you're working on them just keep conscious of how you might like to be worked on."