Equine Holistic Acupuncture & Bodywork

01/11/2025

💞🌈Equine Acupuncture treatment rotations for
November
🔵Ipswich-Kalbar area Warwick Saturday 15th
2 spots left
🟣Toowoomba Sunday 16th 2 spots left am
🔴Toowoomba monday 17th 1 spot left
North coast NSW Thursday 27th

💢Treatments for -Soreness /Stiffness /Pain issues In Horses
💢Musculoskeletal problems
💢tight or cold backed horses
❇️Enhance performance
❇️Recovery from Injuries & Illness
✅metabolic issues
❇️Increase movement, treatments and soreness paddocks injuries
🐝Reduce Pain
✅Back Soreness/tightness
✅Digestive issues /weight gain
💢lead change issues
💢Heavy in front
💢Holding on to bit
💢Hind quarter issues / lacking drive and power from behind

💢Attitude when out /irritable in paddock
Poor healing wounds -rain scald, Mud fever , 💢Itchy runny eyes
✳️Not Tracking Up
💢Issues with balance in canter
💢Dips in lower spine area
Hindquarter tightness

💢Neck and Poll Restrictions (head shy, resistance or shaking ,holding on to bit )
💢Old horses -joint issues -digestion -weight gain issues
💢Itchy skin /skin issues /fluid build up

~Acupuncture ~acupressure ~moxa ~cupping ~Gua sha ~massage~ Non forced Manipulation.

To book in please comment below or PM

30/10/2025

26/10/2025

21/10/2025

Mooooom!! 🥕🐴

18/10/2025

16/10/2025

Spots filling fast November rotation
Saturday spots available
Sundays 3 Spots left
Monday is Full

16/10/2025

DOMS in Horses: Understanding Muscle Soreness & Recovery

After hard or unusual work—like hill work, collection, jumping or competition—horses may experience muscle soreness that develops hours later and lasts for a few days. This is known as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS).

🔬 What happens in the muscles:

• Intense or eccentric work creates tiny micro-tears in muscle fibers.

• The repair process triggers inflammation, swelling, and stiffness.

• Glycogen (the muscle’s energy store) is depleted and refills more slowly after this type of work, delaying full recovery.

• This can leave horses with reduced power, stiffness, or altered movement for 24–72 hours post-exercise.

🐴 How we can support recovery:

• Ensure good nutrition: adequate forage, plus carbohydrates and protein to replenish muscle fuel and aid repair.

• Massage therapy helps reduce inflammation, improve circulation, ease stiffness, and support muscle recovery.

• Provide active recovery: light movement, turnout, and gentle exercise encourage circulation and reduce stiffness.

• Adequate hydration and rest are essential for tissue repair.

👉 Takeaway: DOMS isn’t just about sore muscles—it’s about energy (to perform, to heal, etc), inflammation, and tissue healing.

Incorporating massage and smart recovery practices helps horses more comfortable, balanced, and ready to perform at their best.

https://koperequine.com/how-inflammation-in-muscles-and-fascia-affects-energy-restoration/

13/10/2025

🐴🌻🫣It’s the season where it start to get very busy for everyone so I have opened up the bookings for November bookings
South east QLD Run

🐴🌈November Rotation
Seqld

Ipswich-Kalbar -Boonah
🟣Saturday 15th

Toowoomba & surrounding area
🟢Sunday 16th

Toowoomba-Warwick surrounds
🔴Monday 17th

27/09/2025

SKELETAL DEVELOPMENT should be considered more when we are developing young horses.

I’m not a trainer, and I can appreciate the idea of introducing tack and weight to young horses…slowly and mindfully while keeping the work light enough that the skeletal maturity is allowed for.

What I do wish I saw more of-is developing biomechanical balance in young horses from the ground before introducing tack and rider weight.

From the bodyworker perspective-the most common areas of soreness I see in ridden horses are the areas of the skeletal system that mature last…

While it’s not a clinical study by any means-but with well over 1000’s of massages under my hands I see enough of a correlation to be convinced we are doing too much too soon. More common than not-I see biomechanical imbalances in horses (of all ages) attempting to be corrected under saddle instead of in hand, which creates various compensation patterns elsewhere in the body.

I had these images created for my online classes to help owners and professionals better understand how the maturity timeline can impact performance development.

I share these thoughts in an effort to bring mindful awareness-never to criticize. I hope to see more ridden horses making it to their teens before they’re needing pharmaceutical intervention instead of the 5-10 year olds I see now.
The best time to learn new things and do better for the horse is now.

https://www.schaefferbodyworks.com/