Alice Frampton Veterinary Physiotherapy

17/11/2025

🤰Maternity leave - see you next year! 🎆
A bit of a late post as I have already been on leave for over a week now! I'm not sure where that time went 🙈 but really looking forward to welcoming baby number 2 in December 🤰! It's definitely different second time around, I was so worried about loosing clients and starting again last time and it turned out I shouldn't have been. Thank you to all my wonderful clients for your ongoing support and well wishes, (I wont be gone too long don't worry) and look forward to following your progress and catching up with you all next year. All updates will be posted on my page, likely starting a phased return with group bookings on my main A303 Yeovil>Taunton route in the spring.

Needing cover?
I have several RAMP registered Veterinary Physiotherapy colleagues who have agreed to cover some clients for me and whom I am happy to directly recommend - do contact me and I will put you in touch. I am more than happy to share treatment protocols and notes ect with other professionals on request to ensure continuity of care. Feel free to contact me with any questions and updates - I will probably enjoy hearing from you ☺️.

04/11/2025

A few people have been asking me about strangles and thoughts on the vaccine lately, so this may be of interest to a few of you.

🎫 Have you reserved your spot yet? 🎫

CLIENT EVENING THIS THURSDAY!!

Did you know that strangles cases are on the rise year on year?

Come along on Thursday to hear the latest on this horrible condition and what we can do to prevent it!

Kingston Equine Vets November client evening on Strangles at Glenda Spooner Farm on 6th Nov. Refreshments and a light buffet available! Talk from World Horse Welfare and second hand tack sale! Operation Christmas Child! All ticket proceeds to World Horse Welfare!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kingston-equine-vets-november-client-evening-2025-tickets-1848146438749?aff=oddtdtcreator

https://facebook.com/events/s/kingston-equine-vets-november-/1555997878892073/

https://www.vettimes.com/news/vets/equine/vets-urged-to-strengthen-biosecurity-measures-amid-strangles-case-rise

13/09/2025

A great couple of days helping to man the RAMP stand at BEVA congress, spreading the word about the importance of using regulated professionals. It was really interesting browsing the exhibition, learning about some new and really innovative products, chatting to other professionals from various disciplines and managed to sit in on a couple of interesting lectures too.

RAMP does such a fantastic job and relies heavily on volunteers, I am pleased to have been able to be a small part of it - looking for new applications for council if any of my Physio/Chiro/Osteo colleagues would like to get involved!

🎉Find us at BEVA stand D22!🎉

We've had a great first day talking to Vets, registrants and industry professionals. Looking forward to another busy day today!

04/09/2025

Well that's the FEI permit renewed for another 4 years.

02/09/2025

🍂September (& October) Availability🍂

It's been a super busy summer seeing all of your lovely horses, Flo and I really enjoyed a last outing up to Hartpury for the RC dressage champs. September is looking busy, I am looking forward to spending a couple of days on the RAMP stand at BEVA and attending some CPD training days as well as trying to take a day or 2 for myself 🙈. If you are waiting for me to schedule appointments for you in Oct/Nov please feel free to prompt me.

(Updated 3rd Sep)

Mon 22nd - Available

Mon 29th - Available

🍁October 🍁
Weds 1st - Ilminster/Taunton
Thursday 2nd - Ilminster/Taunton

W/C 6th - more availability.

26/07/2025

🫣 Very last August appointments ☀️

This month I have enjoyed playing with 'stickers' aka kinesio tape after attending a recent course (all RAMP register practitioners have to do 25+ hours of continued learning every year). I was sceptical initially and as everything it's not without a few limitations but after some experiments and some helpful feedback from all of my lovely clients, I am able to use it to complement my current practice and you can look forward to some colourful artworks on occasions ❤️.

Monday 4th - Frome/Shepton (one horse)
Weds 6th - Street / Somerton surrounding

Weds 27th - Ilminster/ Taunton

☀️ September Availability ☀️

Mon 1st - Available
Weds 3rd - Available

Mon 15th - Wells/Street or Frome.
Weds 17th - Available

22/24/25/29 - Available

08/07/2025

Is HARD GROUND the HIDDEN ENEMY?!

There have been a lot of posts, warnings and advice about hard ground recently, a lot of very sensible and informative ones I must say.

But is hard ground really the HIDDEN enemy? ..to be honest I would say it's the pretty obvious one, you can hear it, you can feel it under your own feet and often in your horses way of going, you can see it with huge gaping cracks in the ground and most of us make allowances for it.

When everyone is shouting loudly about hard ground the HIDDEN ENEMY is often SOFT SURFACES. The ground is lacking moisture and so are our arena surfaces, this makes them deep and unstable putting more stretch and strain on our horses soft tissues particularly the ones doing faster work like cantering and jumping in them.

Surface quality and surface depth become even more important this time of the year with a recommended absolute minimum of 4 inches arena surface from both a soft tissue injury prevention point of view and also a slip/trip health and safety point of view. With more give and less stability you can be sure you are more likely to reach the bottom of the surface and much quicker if the depth is not at a safe level.

Consider ALL the surfaces you are working on your horse on, surface maintenance is an art to be timed around the weather gods or aided with a watering system if you are so lucky. Check for separation of sand and fibre surfaces which can be quite problematic and seek advice from professionals. Do not blissfully assume that all arena's are safer than your field, the one thing horses legs are not even a tiny bit acclimatised to at the moment is a deep soft surface.

Take the time to slow down, hack out and work on posture or position (horse & rider!).

20/06/2025

Signing out until 28th June. Please kindly save your messages and booking enquiries until I return, I don't have my diary (I love my paper one) and I can't promise I'll remember to get back to you. Enjoy the sunshine! ☀️👋

16/06/2025

🌞July Availability🌞

Interesting Sunday spent playing with kinesio tape at Ferne animal sanctuary, looking forward to trying a few applications and see how we get on!

Getting organised for next month and trying to take bookings before I take some time off over the next week or so.

W/C 30th - Full

Mon 7th - Shepton/Frome
Weds 9th - Taunton surrounding
Thurs 10th - Available

W/C 14th - Available

21st - Netherclay/ Taunton surrounding
23rd - Glastonbury/Shepton PM only
24th - Available

W/C 28th - Available

04/06/2025

This gorgeous youngster thought I needed a hand with the laser yesterday 🙈. He didn't understand why he had to watch his friend get all the attention!

27/05/2025

🐎June Availability🐎

Very few dates left for June and booking into July as you have all been getting organised for a busy summer 🌞. I am also looking forward to taking some time off, something I don't always remember to do since working part-time 🙈.

Weds 4th - PM local

Weds 11th - Available

Mon 16th - Available

🏖️Holiday🏖️

Mon 30th - Ilminster/Taunton PM

The very gorgeous Flo enjoying a morning nap 😴.

08/05/2025

Flo decided she should have been added to my 'work' day and have some blissful physiotherapy... She wasn't too enthusiastic about partaking in some 'work' herself 😂🙈. We compromised and went for a stroll around the fields, I promise it will be your turn again soon Flowy!