By: Nikki Alvin-Smith If you are puzzling over the use of PEMF as a therapy for use on horses, you are not alone. The process of directing powerful pulsed energy waves toward injury sites in your horse’s body is becoming increasingly popular, despite its expense and the questions that authorities such as the New York […]
* * PEMF Ring & Patch * * MCT Patch * * Arc Equine * * Price $35 – $55 $39.95 $399 24/7 Application Yes Yes No Frequency 27.1MHz 20Hz Various Auto Shut Off No No At 3 Hours Product Life 700 Hours Up to 500 Hours N/A Rechargeable No No Yes Low Battery […]
We received a wonderful testimonial about our new Silver Knit Canine Cuffs. It brought up an excellent point of combining different therapies for maximum results. So, we thought we would share! “Thank you for designing and making the silver knit wraps for dogs. I love them! It makes it so much easier than fussing […]
MicroPlus Best-Vet III w/ Comb Attachment Price 120.00 $1550.00 Number of Frequencies 5 40* Polarity Control Yes No Ability to Add Leg Wraps for Whole Body Integration Yes Yes Ability to Switch to Hand Tools Yes Yes Biofeedback for Tissue Assessing No Yes Real-Time Fascia Unwinding No Yes GSR (Skin Resistance Sensor) No Yes […]
By: Nikki Alvin Smith Tracey Barrett Webb is the wife of a veterinarian in Ocala, FL. Her husband, Brent Barrett, DVM, who specializes in equine podiatry, is also a proponent of microcurrent therapy. When did you first learn about the benefits of micro-current therapy? It was about fifteen years ago that I went to a […]
MicroPlus w/ Back Pad (MP-BP) BVIII w/ Back Pad (BVIII-BP) Bemer Blanket Price $905 $2279.00 $5,000 Frequency Selections 5 40* 2 Ability to add leg wraps for whole body integration Yes Yes No Ability to switch to hands-on tools Yes Yes No Biofeedback with Tissue Assessment […]
The Thermotex Therapy Systems delivers gentle, deep-penetrating, and therapeutic infrared heat to the horse’s neck, back, shoulder, lung, barrel, and hip to relieve pain. After just 20 minutes of use, the soothing infrared wavelengths penetrate up to 2.36 inches into the applied area. This increases blood flow, which enhances the natural properties that the body […]
2nd Edition MicroCurrent for Horses (and other vital therapies you should know) By Deborah A. Powell MicroCurrent for Horses (and Other Vital Therapies You Should Know) by Deborah Powell focuses on low level electrical stimulation and other complementary therapies for improving injury recovery, reducing the injury recovery costs, injury prevention, and optimizing performance. It is a […]
The Nebulizer vs the Vibra VM: A Review of COPD Devices for horses (and other animals) The Nebulizer A Nebulizer is primarily a drug delivery device used to administer liquid medication into an extremely fine vapor to be inhaled by the horse to go directly into the lungs. Nebulizers are commonly used for horses with COPD […]
By: Nikki Alvin-Smith The ability to take a deep, clean and richly oxygenated breath that translates through healthy lung tissue into the oxygenated blood we need to sustain our lives is something we take for granted until that moment when we can’t. This is a dilemma faced by hundreds of thousands of humans, horses and other […]