I have been working therapeutically with horses for almost two decades now, I have been able to treat many different problems/diseases and have applied, tried out, discarded, retained and developed many things according to these experiences and my "addiction" to deep knowledge and understanding. 

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My bodywork consists of traditional elements of acupuncture, modern findings from neurology and myofascial structures and my own research on the horse's body.

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I work with a horse in such a way that the horse actively releases its own tension. Guided by me, it releases ITSELF. 

I do not use any manual techniques to passively mobilize joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles. The sustainability of this passive mobilization has not convinced me in all these years. It is not sustainable.

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For me it's logical, you have to have deep understanding of neurology and how the horse's body reacts. And you have to study the anatomy very, very deeply and do your own research/observation. There is still far too much isolated thinking in these days. But that's not how the musculoskeletal system works. At the end of the day, it is a single unit. And to try to mobilize this unit passively without active, voluntary input from the horse (proprioception of the horse!) is questionable in my experience.

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My research and my own studies have shown that areas of the anatomy as it is classically taught are not correct. Drawings in textbooks are sometimes incorrect, the insertion and origin of muscles are not correct, and they are marked differently in different books. And some scientists in veterinary medicine openly say that we would only be able to accurately identify the function of a muscle and the biomechanics if we were to attach sensors into the living muscle and take measurements. Scientific dissectors say that textbooks would have to be rewritten. I have seen with my own eyes on horse dissections how wrong muscle drawings can be in terms of position, thickness and insertions. In fact, the attachments and origins can vary from breed to breed. I don't need to say any more.

And when you look at the thickness and size of most of the muscles on horses, live on dissections, I find it almost funny that we humans try to manipulate such strong structures. We can't do anything, absolutely nothing, to most joints because we simply can't reach them.

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Another aspect, which I have experienced myself, is important: in all industries and professions today, we have an extreme tendency towards "specialist areas", which has become so dominant that hardly anyone fully grasps the overall picture anymore. And that is a big problem. Especially in the equine field, without in-depth knowledge of the hooves, teeth, natural living conditions and the rhythms of a horse's life, the rest of the body cannot be understood or treated.

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That is why you will not get an "isolated" body treatment for your horse from me if the hooves, teeth and husbandry conditions are not in order. I want to save myself the time and you the money. Until these components are in good order or on the way to recovery, you can forget about manual therapy of any kind. I hear it almost every day. Horse owners who have had regular therapy for months or years and nothing has really improved in the long term.

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There is a lot more to it than most people would like to believe. My findings and research continue on a daily basis and I am never tired of questioning, including my own work. A path to recovery must be as individual as each horse is. And we can never stop asking whether our view of things is still correct and if we have really grasped everything.

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If you would like to find out more, please feel free to contact me.