Peak Pulse Therapy

19/12/2025

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11/12/2025

📖 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝘁

🐴 I love reading about misconceptions when it comes to feeding horses, but today I’d like to debunk some common myths about good old sodium chloride.

🧂 Myth #1: Salt only needs to be fed when the weather is hot.

🐴 Truth #1: Salt needs to be fed 365 days a year because it is vital for many bodily processes and is excreted in sweat, saliva, mucous and urine. Even in the midst of winter, horses need salt.

🧂 Myth #2: Horses instinctively know to drink water regularly, especially when they are hot and sweaty.

🐴 Truth #2: A horse’s thirst reflex is triggered by sodium, which is a component of salt. Horses’ sodium requirements need to be met in order for them to seek water.

🧂 Myth #3: A horse can meet their sodium and chloride requirements with a salt block alone.

🐴 Truth #3: Unlike cattle, horses do not have an abrasive tongue and are not designed to lick harsh surfaces to extract nutrients. While it is technically possible for a horse to consume their daily salt requirement from a salt block, it is much less work and more physiologically-appropriate for them to consume loose salt that is either provided in a meal or left out free-choice.

🧂 Myth #4: Horses know what nutrients they need and can self-medicate with supplements such as vitamins and minerals.

🐴 Truth #4: Salt is the only nutrient horses have been studied and proven to actively seek out when it is required. They will not seek out other nutrients “because they know they need it.” Look at how much salt and molasses (palatable additives) are added to free-choice supplements.

🧂 Myth #5: Himalayan rock salt is better for horses than plain salt.

🐴 Truth #5: Himalayan rock salt contains naturally occurring components other than sodium and chloride. Some may view this as a positive; however, it is usually a more expensive means of supplementing salt, and often contains traces of iron which almost never needs to be supplemented given horses are generally oversupplied iron by their forage intake alone.

🐎 Your horse’s diet should be providing a minimum of 10g of salt per 100kg of body weight each day; typically more after exercise, intense weather, or illness. Ensuring your horse always has access to clean, cool, and fresh drinking water will ensure they remain well-hydrated and if by chance they intake more salt than necessary, the water they drink allows them to excrete excess very effectively. The best kind of salt to feed is plain sodium chloride such as table salt, unless the diet is deficient in iodine which makes iodised salt more appropriate.

01/12/2025

With this wet weather around abscesses can occur.
PEMF can help with inflammation and pain

30/11/2025

🔥DALBY AUSTRALIAN STOCK HORSE SALE🔥
Will be on grounds over the duration of this event.

🔹Certified level three practitioner est 2020🔹

Give your camp horses and sale horses a PEMF, reduce muscle fatigue, reduce the risk of an injury.

What are the benefits of PEMF?

🔹 Provides relaxation, stress reduction, and deep tissue massage through pulsating muscle stimulation

🔹 Increases energy, improve performance, & sense of well being

🔹 Increases circulation & improves blood oxygenation

🔹 Relieves pain with immediate and lasting response

🔹 Decreases inflammation and increases range of movement

🔹 Enhances muscle function, endurance, strength, & recovery

🔹 Accelerates home mending & wound healing

29/11/2025

⭐ 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟑 - 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚 + 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞’𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭

Let’s talk about the two things that influence your horse’s body more than anything else:
𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚 and 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬.
If Part 3 was about what compensation looks like, Part 4 is about why it develops in the first place and how we fix it.

And spoiler alert:
It’s not magic.
It’s not “just how they’re built.”
It’s science, structure, and the body’s survival system.

⭐ 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲’𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐲

Fascia is NOT “just connective tissue.”
It’s the body’s most dynamic, intelligent system one giant 3D web that wraps through, around, and between 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞, 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭, 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞.

When fascia tightens, sticks, or becomes restricted, it can:

• Pull joints out of alignment
• Change hoof loading patterns
• Limit stride length
• Create bracing through the topline
• Shift weight unevenly through the diagonal pairs
• Cause that “won’t bend left” or “feels stuck on the right” feeling
• Make the horse move differently to avoid tension or pain

This is why you can’t isolate one muscle or one body part in rehab.
𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞.
If fascia is stuck, movement is stuck.
And when movement is stuck, compensation begins.

⭐ 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞

Biomechanics is simply:
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲, 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲.

A balanced horse moves like this:

• Hind end drives → core stabilizes → ribcage lifts → front end frees up
• Forces travel diagonally through the body
• Joints load evenly
• Fascia glides
• Steps match left-to-right
• The spine flexes and absorbs shock
• The body stays symmetrical under the rider or on the ground

This is the blueprint the body wants to follow.

But when something interferes ; pain, weakness, stiffness, poor posture, old injuries, or even training mistakes, the biomechanics shift.
And then the fascia adapts.
And then the entire movement pattern rewrites itself.

That’s how compensation becomes “normal.”

⭐ 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐲: 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲

You can’t fix biomechanics without addressing fascia.
And you can’t fix fascia without retraining biomechanics.

This is where people get stuck.

They:
• Stretch the horse
• Work the horse harder
• Put special shoes on
• Do injections
• Do one chiro session
• Or just hope conditioning rides will fix it

But if the fascia chain is still restricted? → the horse reverts.
If the biomechanics aren’t retrained? → the pattern returns.
If the compensation isn’t addressed at its source? → the problem persists.

This is EXACTLY why your “whole horse” approach works because you treat causes, not symptoms.

⭐ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞” 𝐌𝐲𝐭𝐡

Let’s say a horse has:

• A short right front stride
• A dropped right shoulder
• A tighter right ribcage
• A weaker left hind
• An underrun left front heel

To an untrained eye, this looks like conformation.

But to someone who understands fascia + biomechanics?
This screams diagonal compensation pattern caused by a hind-end weakness or restriction.

Once the fascia is released…
Once the strength is rebuilt…
Once you restore proper loading and balance…
Once the horse can move correctly again…

Suddenly the “conformation issue” disappears.

Because it was never conformation.
It was adaptation.

⭐ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟒

Your horse’s body is not betraying them.
It’s protecting them.

And when you combine:
✨ Fascia release
✨ Correct biomechanics
✨ Functional strength rebuilding
✨ Consistency in rehab

You’re not just fixing a movement problem
you’re undoing YEARS of compensation and giving your horse the chance to move the way they were designed to.

This is how we break the patterns.
This is how we rebuild balance.
This is how we change the whole horse.

29/11/2025

⭐ 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟐 — 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐒𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐭)

Here’s the thing about horses:
They don’t wake up one day suddenly crooked, lame, or “weird.”
Compensation builds slowly, quietly, over time.
The body is ALWAYS trying to protect itself, and it will trade posture, balance, and movement to do it.

And because horses are masters of survival, these patterns often look “normal”… until you know what you’re looking at.

Let’s break it down 👇

⭐ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧?

Compensation is the body’s way of saying:
“𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐬, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐤, 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭… 𝐬𝐨 𝐈’𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝.”

It’s not bad behavior.
It’s not laziness.
It’s not training level.
It’s not temperament.

It’s the body making adjustments to avoid pain or overuse and those adjustments ALWAYS show up somewhere else.

Think of it like a ripple in the fascia web.
One restriction → one weak link → one pain point
…creates a whole chain reaction.

⭐ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐬

Most horses don’t show pain outright.
They show it through patterns:

• Shorter stride
• Dropped shoulder
• Head tilt
• Bracing the neck
• Hollowing the back
• Stabbing steps
• Swinging the hindquarters out
• “Heavy” on the forehand
• One lead harder than the other
• One direction always stiffer
• Toed-out stance
• Standing camped under or camped out
• Tail carried to one side
• Heels underrun on ONE front foot (hello diagonal hind problem 👀)

These aren’t personality quirks.
These aren’t “how they’re made.”
These are compensation strategies.

Your horse is literally telling you:
“𝐈’𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.”

⭐ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐨 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲

Because it shows up in the place that’s working the HARDEST not the place that’s hurting.

So the front end takes the blame…
while the hind end is the true culprit.

The feet get blamed…
while the posture is actually the problem.

The farrier gets blamed…
when really the horse is loading unevenly because of a deeper imbalance.

The rider gets blamed…
when the horse was compromised before you even got in the saddle.

Owners miss it because horses are built to hide pain.
Professionals miss it because they look at the symptom, not the whole chain.

But when you understand compensation,
you start connecting the dots.

⭐ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲

The fascia system links the body together like an inner web.
When ONE area tightens, strains, or protects…
you see changes everywhere:

• A sticky left shoulder? → often a right hind issue
• Choppy in front? → likely a hind-end strength or SI problem
• High/low front feet? → compensation through the diagonal pair
• Tight back? → core weakness or lack of lateral stability
• Popping stifle? → glutes, psoas, or fascia line restrictions
• Struggling to bend? → ribcage rotation, not “attitude”

Nothing happens in isolation.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦.

⭐ 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚 “𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥”

If a horse compensates long enough, the brain rewires movement patterns.

So what was once a temporary survival strategy becomes:
“Just how this horse moves now.”

And that’s where people start saying the phrase I built this mini-series to destroy:
“That’s just how my horse is made.”

No.
That’s just how they’ve ADAPTED.

We can un-adapt it.
We can rebuild it.
We can retrain it.
We can return the body to the movement it was designed to have.

⭐ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲

If your horse looks crooked…
moves unevenly…
stands oddly…
or feels different from left to right…

It’s not “just them.”

It’s compensation.
It’s communication.
It’s a clue.
And it’s fixable with the right approach and biomechanics.

29/11/2025

⭐ 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝟏: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠
(𝖱𝖾𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗂𝗌 𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗈𝗉𝗂𝗇𝗂𝗈𝗇／𝖾𝗑𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝖻𝖺𝗌𝖾𝖽)

This is one of the biggest misunderstandings I see in the horse world, and honestly… it’s a huge reason so many horses stay stuck in pain or bad movement patterns for years.

People look at a horse standing funny, moving crooked, or carrying themselves inverted and go:
“Welp, that’s just their conformation.”

But here’s the truth:
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is what they were born with.
𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 is what life, pain, habit, and training did to them.

And 90% of the “conformation problems” I’m called out to look at… are actually posture problems rooted in fascia, pain, or compensation.

Let’s break it down 👇

⭐ 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 = 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

This is the horse’s foundation. The bone structure they came into the world with.
Examples:
• Straight vs turned-out legs
• Long vs short back
• Shoulder angle
• Hip structure
• Pastern length
• Ribcage shape
• Neck set

Conformation can influence movement potential.
But true conformation issues are way less common than people think.

And here’s the kicker:
Conformation does not change.
(At least not without trauma, and if it did change, you’d definitely know.)

⭐ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 = 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Posture is the story of how your horse has been moving, compensating, and protecting themselves.
Posture is shaped by:
• Pain
• Fascia restrictions
• Muscle imbalance
• Poor saddle fit
• Hoof balance
• Weakness
• Rider influence
• Training habits
• Old injuries
• And simple survival strategies

Unlike conformation…
✨ Posture can absolutely change and FAST.
I watch horses change their topline, their neck carriage, their ribcage rotation, their step length, their stance, and their entire way of going once we release the restrictions and get the system moving correctly.

This is why you see those “before and after” photos after their stays.
Their structure didn’t change.
Their posture did.

⭐ Here’s the part most people miss…

A horse with “good conformation” can still look terrible if their posture is collapsed.

A horse with “average conformation” can move like a million bucks when their posture is balanced.

And a horse with “bad conformation” often looks 10x worse simply because their posture is compensating for something deeper.

That is why it’s so important to understand this difference:
Posture exposes the truth about what’s happening inside the body.

⭐ Examples you’ve seen (even if you didn’t know it):

• A horse who stands under themselves behind → usually hind-end weakness, pain, or tight fascia
• A horse who looks downhill → often a dropped sternum or weak core, not actually “built downhill”
• “U-neck” or “ewe-neck” → posture pattern from bracing, poor topline engagement, or not engaging the core (which raises the topline and turns on the back muscles)
• Shoulder asymmetry → often a ribcage problem or uneven hind-end push
• Toed-out stance → compensating for stifle or SI discomfort
• “Short-strided in front” → nearly always a hind-end problem affecting posture

These are posture stories, not conformation verdicts.

⭐ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬:

If you think something is “just conformation,”
you won’t try to change it.
You’ll accept it as permanent.

But when you recognize it as posture,
you realize:
🔥 It’s 𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.
🔥 It’s 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞.
🔥 It’s 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
🔥 It’s 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩.

And that’s where real transformation happens.

⭐𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝.

(Yes I’m picking on my personal horse because I have the good, bad, & ugly with her. She has a laundry list of problems and she takes up most of my camera roll😆 but you can always see the change in her)

29/11/2025

Happy to be a returning sponsor at this upcoming Dalby Australian Stock Horse Sale
Will be on grounds during the event.
Please message if you would like to give your equine athlete the edge that PEMF provides. After the long trips to Dalby your horses will thank you.
Darling Downs Branch Australian Stock Horse Society

A huge thank you to Peak Pulse Therapy for supporting this year’s Dalby Australian Stock Horse Sale as a Bronze Sponsor!

We’re grateful for your backing and your ongoing support of our local equine community. Partnerships like yours help us continue to deliver a high-quality event for everyone involved.

Thank you, Peak Pulse Therapy, for backing the 2025 Dalby Sale!

21/10/2025

Can’t remember who was asking about donkeys

13/10/2025

Late night PEMF.
Novice Draft Ready!
Good Luck Hannah and Stylish

13/10/2025

Recon reaping the rewards from his PEMF session this morning.

Will be on grounds at Chinchilla Draft over the next few days.