Whether you have a high level competition horse or just a best buddy, your horse will always benefit from regular massage.
Regular massage will help relax the body, which in turn will relax the nervous system, improve the flow of the lymphatic system, and also improve the cardio-vascular system. This enables the horse to dispose of toxic waste in the muscles faster, recovery time for fatigued muscles is shorter, blood pressure is reduced and heart rate is decreased.
You owe it to your horse to do whatever you can to ease the stresses of everyday riding as well as high level training. Regular massage will also increase muscle efficiency and tone as well as increasing the range of motion by rhythmic stretching of the muscle. Excessive scarring or adhesions are dislodged which restores the extensibility of the muscle.
