KS Equine Bodywork

12/16/2025

11/25/2025

🦠 Due to the virus outbreak, a few barns in quarantine have been rescheduled. Because of the rescheduling there are open days coming up! 🦠
Please be transparent about travel out of state and to other barns.

Wednesday, December 3rd
Friday, December 5th
Saturday, December 6th

Adding on
Saturday, December 20th
Sunday, December 21st

Shoot me a TEXT if you’d like to fill one of these days!
218-428-0228

11/20/2025

Information regarding EHV-1/EHM outbreak:

Neurological form of Equine Herpesvirus (EHM) confirmed in Texas and Oklahoma

There are currently no suspected or confirmed EHM cases in Minnesota at this time and the following bulletin is for horse owner awareness. (3:40pm 11/19/25)

The neurologic form of equine herpesvirus was confirmed in two Quarter Horses at the 2025 WPRA World Finals and Elite Barrel Race event in Waco, Texas Nov. 5 - 9, 2025.
Two additional horses who attended the Waco event and then traveled to the BFA World Championship 2025 at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Oklahoma were also confirmed with EHM.

As the situation is on-going, and travel back from the BFA and other events is occurring continued biosecurity is essential to minimize spread. These horses should be isolated for the next 14-21 days.

Quarantine:
All horses returning from events with known EHV-1/EHM cases should follow strict isolation protocol. They should be at least 30 feet away from any other horse (clusters of horses having traveled together may be quarantined in tight knit groups), no nose to nose contact with other horses, no sharing of buckets, tack, pitch forks, halters and lead ropes, etc between quarantined horses and other horses. Change your clothes or wear disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) including shoe covers while handling quarantine horses. Horses should have their temperature checked twice a day (fever if >101.5F; normal if

10/20/2025

This week I’m in another equine osteopathy module so responses will be delayed until each evening!
November availability is scarce, shoot me a text to go over openings or with any other questions!
218-428-0228

ALSOOO stay tuned for a highly requested merch drop ⭐️

10/14/2025

I have THREE afternoon openings this Wednesday, October 15th in the Carlton-Duluth areas.
Shoot me a text to get on the schedule!
218-428-0228

10/09/2025

Good luck Meghan Moran & crew! 🍀

𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆 𝐄𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Non-Pro Boxing Futurity entry:

𝑹𝑺 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 & 𝑴𝒆𝒈𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏

Good luck to Meghan and “Louis” as they make their way into the pen today! They will be competing in the reining portion in the John Justin arena.

Later in the day Aaron and CTS Smart Choice will be competing in the herd work in the Wyatt arena! Good luck to Aaron and “Rose”!

https://www.nrcha.com/events/snaffle-bit-futurity/

10/02/2025

🚨FULL🚨
Superior, WI
Duluth, MN
Including surrounding areas!
I have a few openings Wednesday, October 8th
Please text me with any questions or to book! Facebook is so goofy on my business page.
This is just before PEWC finals ☺️
218-428-0228

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09/30/2025

This much loved 34 year old horse pretty much emaciated (thin) when he was euthanised. Despite his owner piling in the food, he didn’t seem to recover from his thinness.

I was honoured to study him after euthanasia.

I was pretty upset to see the condition of his teeth.

Edited to add- the owner was not adequately educated to understand dentals are important.

Before I got into horses I thought my neighbour was crazy getting the equine dentist in. Now I realise.

In this case the last molar at the back is not being ground down naturally. The black you see is actually tooth.
It’s opposite tooth that should be in the upper jaw is missing.

This horse would not have been able to grind its food properly which I feel was a very likely cause of his thinness.

No other issues noted internally

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09/27/2025

ENGAGE THE SLING BEFORE YOU DRIVE FROM BEHIND

baby race horse getting thoracic sling engagement 😊😊😊🧡🧡🙌🐴

You can see how in the before picture this horse appears collapsed into the ground. His feet are splayed and chest is wide and soft and looks like it is falling into the ground. This is called ‘columnar loading ‘ it means that the horse is loading into the ground like a building, it is the opposite of ‘tensegrity’ which implies a balance of the compression elements giving you suspension and recoil. If your not using your tension elements and just start collapsing into your front end the only way you can really hold yourself up is by tensing through the elbow and thus splaying your front feet.

This baby is 1 year old, never been ridden and already is collapsing into the front end and is losing the ability and desire to engage and lift the thoracic sling.

There is no pectoral activation in the before. He is wide and collapsing in front. For a race horse this is a posture that will make him prone to injury because as he fixates this way it will be more and more difficult for him change and get his front end out of the way.

In the meantime those folks that don’t believe in spinal flexion of the thoracic spine will insist on driving into this braced, blocked, fixated front end that is now being stabilized by the elbows that will externally rotate and brace and a activated brachiocephalicus muscle which will further contract trying to stabilize the neck trying to prevent further compression as the hind end is driven into a front end that is locked down and collapsing into the ground.

I learned in vet school that when there is much opposing discussion about things it usually means none of the answers are correct.

If you cannot lift and engage your thoracic sling so that you have the ability for suspension and recoil as in tensegrity please do not think that driving into it is the solution. If you want your horse to feel like a motor boat you have to have the lift first and then you can drive into it.

Yes you need drive but the road must be open

If you don’t have lift the drive will cause more compression and collapse, creating more dysfunction.

Does that make sense ?

So the answer is your need lift for the drive to have a place to go otherwise you just drive into a brace.

The horse on the right has an engaged thoracic sling. This only took about an hour and this particular little fellow still had a lot of restrictions that will need follow up. But it’s a start - he can now get his front end out of the way allowing for hind end to come under instead of around.

He will be able to push off the ground instead of collapsing into it allowing triceps activation and development.

He will be able to open up his rib cage and breathe deep fully expanding into his diaphragm and creating internal lift to his back. His waist will lengthen, lumbar spine align and psoas relax creating movement to the pelvis and softening the angle so the hips now in alignment can push back at the ground with their full power.

All this in an hour.
All this from re training your nervous system out of dysfunction into function
Lift your sling to lift your back.

Please don’t drive into your horse if he cannot engage his sling and definitely do not back these horses up !!

09/23/2025

STACY-PRINCETON and areas in between. I’ll be making a loop with room for 3. ✨9/24✨ This will include a full biomechanic eval, full bodywork session, PEMF (magnawave) where/if needed and homework to apply post session.
Please TEXT me if you’re wanting to get on the schedule or if you have any questions. The business portion of Facebook is choosy when it wants to function properly on my end.
218-428-0228