“PAIN MANAGEMENT”
- TENS Units: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation devices send small electrical pulses through the skin via pads to block pain signals from reaching the brain and to relax tight muscles.
- NMES Systems: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation uses electrical impulses to make muscles contract, which prevents muscle wasting during stall rest and eases spasms.
- Microcurrent Therapy: Wearable units like the ArcEquine deliver low-level microcurrents meant to mirror the body’s natural electrical currents, helping reduce whole-body inflammation and speed up tissue repair.
- Shockwave Machines: Extracorporeal shockwave therapy delivers high-energy, focused sound waves deep into tissue to stimulate blood flow, heal chronic suspensory ligament strains, and provide localized pain relief.
- PEMF Systems: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy uses blankets, rings, or targeted paddles to emit magnetic pulses that encourage cellular recovery, lower joint inflammation, and ease arthritic stiffness.
HORSE CAFE Pain Mgt can best be explained as a plan to help your horse and its body deal with “pain.” Having a plan will help you gain a true understanding on how your horse’s “body” creates , manages and eliminates pain. There is another section on how to prevent pain in the first place which is just as important.
It is important to note that there are many choices that we make that leads to bringing pain into a horse’s body. To start, the food and drink you put into your horse’s mouth does impact their susceptibility as well as their tolerance to pain. It is ironic that often times, what we use to diminish the pain in a horse actually leads to the horse incurring more pain. How your horse reacts to pain impacts all of the other factors that impact your horse’s health.
The natural pain mgt system that resides in your horse’s brain allows us to choose remedies for pain in a natural way. That includes ice, heat, elevation, compression, massage, water and rest. There is also medication that provides a short term solution to minimize pain while one can figure out how to eliminate it in the long term.
No matter what choices you have made in your past with regards to the health of your horse, you can take a stand and make today the first day of your new HORSE CAFE pain mgt program and start to make better choices with your horse’s fuel supply.
HORSE CAFE helps your horse do the things it has to in order to live a healthy active lifestyle. The key is to give your horse the proper treatment, nutrition, therapy or meds so the decisions you make will be good decisions. You can start by learning what impact your horse’s current fuel intake is currently making on your horse’s health.
HORSE CAFE can play a vital role if your goal or desired outcome is good health for your horse. When you combine the power of these two key systems — your horse’s brain and the HORSE CAFE — you can write new GOALS and ACTION STEPS (instructions) and in the process, create a RoadMap to Success that is designed to promote new health-related activities for your horse & produce new results with better outcomes.
HORSE CAFE Personalized “Weight Mgt” Program can help you manage your horse’s weight, body mass index (BMI), balance, flexibility, strength, conditioning and mental and emotional health:
1) Managing your horse’s weight will have a positive impact on your horse’s health and energy level
2) Your ability to measure things you put in your horse’s body will have a positive impact on their longevity
3) Good fuel choices can improve your horse’s ability to focus & complete workouts and tasks
4) Weight Mgt helps you manage your horse’s fuel consumption, energy level, quality of sleep & immune system
5) Log in and list your goals & game plans so you can produce “best case scenarios” in your horse’s life
6) Positive results come from planning, tracking, adapting & executing nutrition game plans
HORSE CAFE believes the horse’s condition is one that operates best when it is functioning on all cylinders.
So, how do we get there? First and foremost, one must recognize that today is the first day of the rest of your horse’s life. What does that mean? There is nothing one can do about the past . . . except learn from it. We cannot change it. We can only see it for what it was. A wise woman by the name of Maya Angelou once said, “We did then what we knew then and when we knew better, we did better!” And that is the essence of clicking on all cylinders. As we go forward, let’s use today to take the first step in a long journey towards getting your horse healthy and keeping it healthy.
HORSE CAFE Weight Mgt Program helps process the data related to how your horse’s fuel choices impact your horse’s energy level and your horse’s ability to perform.
– A new plan means new ideas and a new way of thinking.
– Must be able to modify the plan as needed
– Identify what foods/fluids gives your horse energy and at what cost
– Calculate the calories in each fuel source to insure proper amount of caloric intake
– Incorporating movement into your horse’s life is essential to good health
– Make the shopping list before you take the trip to the feed store
– Delete any unwanted actions that result in negative outcomes (alcohol, drugs, vices)
– Think about where you would like your horse to be in 90 days. Start by creating a list of GOALS and ACTION STEPS in the HORSE CAFE