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The Benefits of Adding Kinesiology Tape to Your Practice

3/27/2017

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Kinesiology tape is a stretchy, sticky athletic tape that was developed for humans over 30 years ago.  This tape has recently gained popularity with animal bodywork practitioners after it was discovered that the same benefits humans experience when wearing the tape can be experienced by animals. To many people’s surprise, this revolutionary tape can be applied over an animal’s hair instead of directly to the skin to achieve the same decompression effect seen in humans.

Kinesiology taping is a modality that every animal bodywork practice can benefit from. This tape allows the practitioner to enhance their other therapies by leaving the animal with prolonged blood and lymph flow improvement, decreased pain sensation and support of joints and muscles that are suffering from instability or hyper and hypotonicity.  


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Some conditions that can benefit from kinesiology tape are: ACL and other knee related injuries in dogs, back pain in dogs and horses, hind end weakness in dogs due to IVDD, spina bifida, arthritis, or DM, suspensory ligament injuries in horses, post surgical swelling in all animals and stocking up in horses. A recent study in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science showed a significant reduction in swelling after 24 hours of kinesiology taping in horses with arthroscopic tibio-patellofemoral surgery. (http://www.j-evs.com/article/S0737-0806(16)30525-1/abstract)

While kinesiology taping is a very safe and effective technique, there are specific ways to cut and apply the tape for the condition being treated and there are contraindications to utilizing this tape as well.  Proper training is required to be able to adequately add kinesiology taping to your practice.
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Angel’s Animals - Holistic Online Courses, offers kinesiology taping certification courses for both Equine and Canine practitioners.  These courses can be completed from anywhere in the world and do not have time limitations.  The courses are taught by Dr. Angelique Barbara who is a Doctor of Chiropractic with a BS in Veterinary Science and a MS in Veterinary Pathobiology.  Dr. Barbara was one of the first practitioners to start using kinesiology tape on animals and she developed these comprehensive courses to share her applications and experience with other practitioners.  
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Why you Should Add Whole Body Vibration Therapy to Your Practice!

3/9/2017

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Whole body vibration therapy has been utilized and researched in humans since the late 1800's. Astronauts have been using vibrating platforms since the 60's to decrease muscle atrophy and bone density loss in space. This therapy has recently become popular in physical therapy settings to help patients increase bone density without the use of the drugs and improve neuro-muscular response in patients with injuries.  
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This therapy is now available for horses through EquiVibe! These platforms can be placed in an equine rehab center or brought to barns you are working at (they are portable!) to provide horses in your care with an additional therapeutic service.

What are the Benefits?

  • Increases blood flow to muscles and surrounding tissues
  • Speeds up recover process following injuries
  • Reduces soreness from training
  • Flushes out toxins and metabolic waste from the tissues
  • Provides oxygen and nutrients to the tissues
  • Increases bone density (especially useful for horses on stall rest!)
  • Improves flexibility
  • Calms nerves
There are protocols available for the following conditions:
abscess, arthritsi, joint stiffnesss, soreness, bone density, bowed tendon, bucked shins, cellulitis, check ligament injuries, colic, bushings, EMP, equine bleeders, fetlock, sesamoid and pastern injuries, hip injuries, hocks, hoof issues including navicular disease, bruised feet, heel pain, thin soles, hoof growth, underrun heels, pedal osteitis, knee injuries, laminitis, muscle atrophy, navicular region pain, deep digital tendon injury, post performance, nervous, hard to manage, pre performance, scar tissue, adhesions, shoulder joint injury, sore backs and overall muscle soreness, splints, stifle joint injuries, suspensory ligament injuries, travel stress and wound healing

What to purchase one? Use the coupon code angelsanimals for 5% off your EquiVibe!

Equivibe offers 0% financing with no credit checks or hassle. Contact info@equivibe.com and don't forget to mention your angelsanimals coupon code to get 5% off!
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Learn more about whole body vibration therapy and other therapies in our Equine Myo-manipulative Functional Therapy Course!

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Decrease Your Horse's Back Pain with this Simple Taping!

3/2/2017

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Most horses experience some degree of back pain either from a saddle that doesn't fit perfectly, a rider who isn't completely balanced or just sore muscles from exercise.  This back pain reduction taping is a very easy way to decrease your horse's pain and support the muscles along your horse's back during exercise!

What do you need?

  • 4-inch and 2-inch Kinesiology Tape (recommend the Equine Big Daddy and Equine standard tape from RockTape)
  • Scissors to cut the tape (recommend teflon coated scissors because the glue on the tape will "gum up" your scissors)
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How To Apply It:

  • Start by cutting a piece of the 4-inch (BigDaddy) tape long enough to run from behind  your horse's shoulder blade (at their withers) to the high point on their hind end
  • Cut a second 4-inch piece of tape the same length as the first piece (you can use the 1st piece to measure the second)
  • Starting behind your horse's shoulder blade on the left side of the horse, place the tape down about 1-2 inches from your horse's spine (running parallel to it)
  • Do the same thing on the right side of your horse
  • Cut 2 2-inch pieces of tape long enough to go across your horse's back, over the 2 strips of tape with 1-2 inches overlapping on each side
  • Place one piece perpendicular (directly over) the 4-inch pieces just behind your horse's withers
  • Place the second piece in the same manner on your horse's lower back

What To Do Now?

  • Ride and work your horse as you normally would - the tape stretches as your horse moves which triggers the pain reduction response and minimizes muscle spasms
  • Your horse can be saddled over the tape, but make sure to work your horse on the ground first when the tape is first applied so they can get used to the feeling before riding
  • The tape is waterproof, so you can still hose your horse down after a ride
  • This taping will normally stay on for 1 week and can be worn during turnout or under a blanket or sheet
  • Reapply as needed and make sure to always remove it along your horse's hair direction, not against it
    • There will be some hair that comes off with the tape, but it is hair that was ready to naturally shed off, so no worries

Want to learn more? Check out our online course for horse owners or our certification course for equine professionals!

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    Dr. Angelique Barbara is the founder of Angel's Animals LLC, a company that has developed online animal bodywork courses for both owners and professionals.  Dr. Barbara's unique teaching style along with the dynamic layout of the courses allows people of different educational backgrounds from all over the world to benefit from her knowledge.

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