Vaughn recently massaged two of my horses – a 13 year old Morgan and a 3 year old MFT/Arab. In both cases he found issues with them that I wasn’t aware of.
In my Morgan, he found tight neck muscles and as he massaged, my horse, Pepper started making snorting like sounds I had never heard him make before…as
he continued working, Pepper stretched out his neck and yawned many times. This horse had been recovering from a severe case of strangles so I hadn’t been
riding him the past two months. I was concerned about how long it was taking him to recover…the massage was his first one ---I was impressed with Pepper’s
reaction during the massage…not only the snorting, yawning, stretching but also just looking and standing very relaxed. Afterwards, he has seemed increasingly
brighter, more himself each day. I think the massage may have had an affect on his lymphatic circulation as well as loosening up tight muscles. At any
rate, his recovery seemed to have been given an extra push with Vaughn’s massage.
Zeke, my 3 yr old ½ Arab also received a massage. I was expecting everything to be fine because of his youth and his clean confirmation. Vaughn however
found some tight muscles in his back that led to an investigation of the saddle I had been using on him. I’ve now switched saddles and those back muscles
are feeling loose again. Zeke is also not objecting to the saddling process as he was before. |