Northern Lights chiropractic 2.0

11/21/2025

EHV-1/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

11/07/2025

Winter is just around the corner. Come ride in our warm indoor! 🐎✨

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11/06/2025

Get adjusted. Get your horses adjusted. Have your tack checked have your saddle fitted. Be intentional with your animals.
Be your best and help your animals be the best they can be also .

11/03/2025

"Neuroplasticity is neutral.
It will wire anxiety as easily as confidence, distraction as easily as focus.
It doesn’t choose; you do.
Whatever you focus on, fear or growth, becomes your default setting.
You’re always in training, even when you forget you are."

~ Spartan Psyche

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10/31/2025

Why do we take measurements as fitters?

1. Get ideal width and angle. These matter to make sure the longissimus is able to support the saddle and distribute pressure. The bars change angle front to back but this gives us a general idea of what the horse needs. We dont want uneven pressure and you will get that if the bar angle doesnt match throughout the back

2. Match bar shape to back shape. Nothing will fit right unless the back shape matches. Many companies offer different bar shapes and can accomodate many horses

3. Check for length of bars and weight distribution.

4. Monitor changes over time when working to improve topline

It’s our job as fitters to translate what we see to tree makers to best fit the horse and provide owners knowledge to make an informed decision.

10/29/2025

Don’t forget to check your tack, have a professional saddle fitting and get your animals adjusted. Help them to perform and feel their best.

10/22/2025

Somewhere Along the Way, We Mistook Preservation for Welfare

I’ve decided to pivot. I was heading in one direction with doing a series, planning to stay balanced, measured, and focused on the science, but after weeks of working on these posts, I kept landing in the same place.

Every time I tried to make it neutral or balanced, to show both sides, I kept circling back to the same uncomfortable truth I didn’t want to water down.

After writing, rewriting, and collecting studies for weeks, I realized something:

The research has already been clear for years.
It’s not about proving the risks anymore.
It’s about asking why we keep justifying them.

I’m not speaking about short-term, once-in-a-while stalling, not rehab, weather holds, brief hours of rest, or decisions made with their health in mind.

I’m talking about confinement in the name of preservation.
Stall time that exceeds turnout time, a lifetime spent inside instead of out.
The kind that removes a horse’s freedom under the guise of keeping them show-ready, preserved, pristine, but no longer living as a horse.

There are endless studies documenting the risks of confinement, physically and mentally.
I’ve read them, collected them, cited them.
But no amount of studying changed what the science kept showing me, confinement isn’t welfare.

A horse is meant to be a horse.
And being a horse means the ability to roll, graze, rest, move, and socialize.

According to the Five Domains of Animal Welfare, wellbeing is built on nutrition, environment, health, behaviour, and mental state, and the Three F’s, freedom, friends, and forage, form the foundation of every one of those pillars.

So ask yourself: when a horse spends more time in a stall, isolated and confined, than turned out, is that supported by either of those models?

Every measure of welfare science says no.

When we take those things away, when we isolate, confine, and micromanage them, especially in the name of performance, we’re not protecting them.
We’re exploiting them.

And if the end goal, the prize and reward for good performance, is to one day “retire outside,” then we’ve already admitted there’s something wrong with the “care” they receive today.

We can’t call it care if it only exists on our terms or for our benefit.

Because at the end of the day, if being “the best” means taking away everything that makes a horse a horse, then maybe it’s time to question if we truly love the animal.

10/12/2025

It’s a beautiful day to honor our four-legged friends!
Don’t forget, reward them with kindness, respect, and chiropractic

07/22/2025

Chiropractic for ALL animals!
Get adjusted today!

07/21/2025