Frequently Asked Questions
What is equine therapy?
Equine therapeutic care involves the manual adjustment techniques, as well as acupressure and massage therapies. These techniques are used to ensure proper alignment of the structures of the body and to release tension in the muscles. The immediate results are relaxation and relief of tension and pain. Continued treatments encourage balanced muscling, willingness to work, decreased tension or nervousness, maintaining high performance levels, and overall comfort and well being.
Do misalignments really make a difference?
In short, yes.
Misalignments, or subluxations, of the vertebrae may pinch or irritate the spinal nerves which branch off of the spinal cord. Irritation of these nerves can cause a wide range of issues and symptoms including but not limited to, pain, muscle spasms, and decreased proprioception, or the awareness of the position and movement of the body.
Many horses will continue to try to do what is asked of them, as they are willing to please by nature, but can quickly become irritable, sore, lethargic, or unable to perform. Horses that are deemed to lack impulsion, be heavy on the forehand, unwilling to flex or bend, or labeled as "off" in movement, are often suffering from misalignments and can certainly be helped.
How often should I have my horse adjusted?
This will vary from horse to horse, but most horses will benefit from monthly or bi-monthly treatments. If a horse holds adjustments well and is improving, fewer treatments are needed. However, horses which have had long-standing misalignments, those with less muscle mass, or in heavy work, may initially require more frequent treatments to help the body to re-learn to hold itself in proper postion.
Do you travel?
Yes, I do travel!
I am currently based in SE MN, but I am willing to travel.
Making my trips worth my while helps my bottom line, but I am willing to work with clients who only have a couple horses to work on. Please contact me to discuss several available options.
How do I schedule an appointment?
Here are the easiest ways to contact me to make an appointment:
TEXT 507-251-6520 -- You may send a text with your name, location, and a few details about how many horses and when you would like to schedule an appointment.
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CALL 507-251-6520 -- You may also call me to discuss scheduling an appointment. If I am not able to answer your call, please leave me a message so I can get back to you quickly! Please leave your name, location, a few details about how many horses/animals/people there will be to work on and when you are looking to schedule an appointment, as well as the time and number at which you prefer to receive a call back. I receive many spam or robocalls every day and if there is no voicemail, I typically block the number to avoid future spam calls from it.
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FACEBOOK -- You may send a message to my Facebook Page, Pro Forma Equine, where I would be happy to discuss setting up an appointment.
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What is MagnaWave PEMF?
MagnaWave uses Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMF) to allow the body to heal itself naturally. The MagnaWave machines have a unique electrical current that runs through a copper coil that creates a pulsing magnetic field. These are known as PEMFs. Research about PEMF has been ongoing since the 1940s. Scientists have published thousands of studies, clinical trials and research articles on the topic.
Using MagnaWave is said to stimulate cell metabolism, increase oxygenation, and reduce inflammation. This action can cause a chain of processes in the body that could lead to improvement of health without adverse side effects.
A pulsating magnetic field is said to have a positive influence on many disease processes. By displacing ions, pulsating magnetic fields could lead to normalization of the membrane potential.
Every organ in our body produces it’s own bio-electromagnetic field. MagnaWaving is a way to enhance those energy fields to improve cellular functioning. MagnaWave delivers health enhancing PEMFs to the cells. Unfortunately, our environment, stressors, and toxins negatively impact our bodies and our cellular health.
MagnaWave positively charges blood cells so that they repel one another (like-magnetic charges repel), making it impossible for them to stick together. This maximizes the ability of the blood cells to perform their tasks in the capillaries of all the major organs. The work of the lungs, liver, intestines and kidneys is optimized when proper and full blood flow can take place. When the blood is oxygenated, so are the organs and tissues, reducing disease which can produce imbalances and sickness.
MagnaWave benefits cellular energy, resulting in better cellular health and function, which allows the body to more efficiently process the electrical and chemical exchanges associated with those channels and address imbalances or dysfunctions in those areas – leading to improved adaptation and natural healing.
How Can MagnaWave Help Me or My Animal?
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Increased circulation
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Reduce inflammation
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Increase Energy
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Speed healing time of wounds, soft tissue injury, and broken bones, and post-operative procedures
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Promote better sleep
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Increase Range of Motion
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Improve the uptake of supplements and medications
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Help the body detox on a cellular level
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Sense of overall wellbeing and use for preventative wellness
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PEMF is FDA approved for depression/anxiety, non-union bone fractures, urinary incontinence in women, migraines, and glioblastoma.
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Pain Reduction – A majority of pain is caused by inflammation. MagnaWave helps suppress inflammatory responses at the cell membrane to alleviate pain and increase range of motion. The best part is that in some cases, relief can begin in minutes.
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Injury Recovering and Wound Healing – MagnaWave enhances the oxygenation of the blood flow through the body, and this helps the body to heal itself. On average the healing process is increased by about a third of the time it would normally take without use of PEMF.
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Better Sleep Quality – The use of PEMF technology encourages muscles to relax which results in a deeper, natural sleep.
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Improve Energy – Improved circulation, better sleep, natural healing, and reduced inflammation which results in reduced pain all translate to increased energy.
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Bone Mending – Improved quality of calcium is produced in one-third of the standard time. PEMF can accelerate repair of both bone and soft tissue.
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Stimulating Cell Metabolism – This can allow the body to repair cells and recover which can lead to improved overall health without side effects.
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Works on the Cellular Level – MagnaWave can penetrate every cell, tissue, organ, and bone with gentle electromagnetic pulses which stimulates and rejuvenates the cells.
Is MagnaWave safe for everyone to use?
Magna Wave PEMF machines are not medical devices and do not treat or cure diseases or their symptoms. You should always ask your doctor or veterinarian before using any type of PEMF machine, but generally yes they are safe to use.
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People and animals that are pregnant should not use PEMF. While there is no evidence of harm, the safety of PEMF during pregnancy has not been established.
*With doctor or veterinarian approval, MagnaWave PEMF may be used on pregnant people and animals.
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People and animals with certain battery operated implanted devices that cannot be removed such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, cochlear implants, intrathecal pumps, etc. are recommended not to use PEMF because of the risk of depleting the battery or otherwise interfering with their function.
*With doctor or veterinarian approval, MagnaWave PEMF may be used on those with battery operated implanted devices.
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Organ transplant patients should not use PEMF, due its immune building effects. PEMF may interact with the metabolization of prescribed immune suppressant medications and/or strengthen the immune system, which could in turn stimulate a more aggressive rejection process.
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Cases of active bleeding from injury, surgery, or other medical conditions should not use PEMF because its vasodilation and increased blood flow effects, may increase active bleeding.
*Once active bleeding has stopped, MagnaWave PEMF may be used to promote wound healing and pain relief.
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Cancer patients who are actively receiving chemotherapy are recommended not to use PEMF. PEMF increases the rate at which the body is able to metabolize substances (through oxygenation of the bloodstream and cell metabolism) and thereby may increase the side effects of any medications that the body is processing.
*Allowing the body to process the chemotherapy treatment, usually a day or so to process through the system, before doing PEMF, is recommended to avoid increasing any negative side effects of the chemotherapy drugs.
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People and animals with other implanted devices are able to receive MagnaWave PEMF with no contraindications. MagnaWave is not a magnet that pulls or attracts. It is a magnetic field that our body is immersed in all the time.
Do you recommend using equine therapy and MagnaWave PEMF together or separately?
110% use both modalities together!
They are incredibly complementary of each other. While the adjustments from the equine therapy work to help structural issues, the MagnaWave is able to address the soft tissue problems on a cellular level, very deep within the body. (The signal penetrates up to 18" from the coil!)
Doing one or the other will help more than doing nothing, but only addressing the soft tissue does not correct structural issues, and leaving achy and tight soft tissue problems can cause structural misalignments again, relatively quickly.
Implementing both modalities is a great way to address both structural and soft tissue problems, in the same session, and increases the likelihood of lasting adjustments and improvements.
I cannot recommend having an adjustment and MagnaWave session done together, enough!
