The field I would like to be in is the Equine Massage/ Chiropractic. I’ve competed in barrel racing and riding horses since I was in the 6th grade and I’ve always loved horses. I have been in 4-h and showing at the Southwest Washington Fair‚ and the State fair. I also compete for a high school equestrian team. For one of your 4-h club meetings our group had a horse massage therapist come out and look at all the horses and teach us how to tell if something’s wrong‚ and to teach us how to do certain
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Equine recurrent uveitis also known as moon blindness or periodic ophthalmia‚ is one of the most common eye conditions in horses and the leading cause of blindness. It is an immune-mediated disease‚ meaning the body’s immune system attacks its own tissues in the eye. The exact cause of the disease has yet to be discovered and no cure exists‚ making this disease a challenge for owners and veterinarians alike. No horse‚ regardless of age and breed‚ is safe from this disease. This disease can impact
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Yorke works at Georgian College in Ontario‚ Canada. Cindy Adams works for Ontario Veterinary College and University of Guelph. Nick Coady is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario‚ Canada. In this article‚ they examine the effects that equine therapy has on recovery from a traumatic experience. In order to answer this question‚ they selected six individuals who had previous experience with horses. These participants ranged in age from 18 to 51 years of age. The traumatic experience (i
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Solve Your Colic Woes with Chiropractic Care Most parents will be familiar with the frustrating yet common infant condition known vaguely as colic. It’s considered mysterious‚ difficult to treat and leaves many new parents at their wits end. Don’t panic. Chiropractic care offers a simple‚ safe and effective treatment to colic. What Is Colic? Colic is a term used to describe excessive crying in infants‚ usually under the age of six months. You’ve probably heard many normal babies described as ‘colicky’
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A Baby‚ Please‚ Blond‚ Freckles— Hold the Colic written by Gautam Naik introduces a new medical procedure based on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis‚ PGD‚ which will allow parents the option to select gender and physical traits in a baby soon. PGD was created to prevent diseases‚ but this procedure could now be used to hand-select traits for their baby. Even though build-a-baby is possible‚ Mark Hughes‚ Genesis Genetics Institute‚ says a lab will not be taken serious if they use this procedure for
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The Equine Therapy Center of the Phoenix Center exists in order to heal and present new types of therapy treatment. Being one of the three main components of the Phoenix Center‚ the Equine Center underwent many design iterations in order to learn the benefits and weaknesses of each‚ and achieve the best possible design. These different schemes were created based upon the key ideas established for the whole project‚ among other ideas specific to this building complex. Among these ideas are: the courtyard
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Greco-Roman times (Bachi‚ Terkel‚ Teichman‚ 2011). The assumption that human-animal bonds can have positive psychological effects for the person investing into such a relationship (Bachi‚ Terkel‚ Teichman‚ 2011) has led to the establishment of equine-assisted therapy‚ which is a form of psychotherapy. It makes use of the framework of attachment theory (Bowlby‚ 1958) and assumes that horses can serve as
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or at least check it out. I was always interested in horses‚ I thought they were the most beautiful creatures on earth but i was hesitant about going. eventually one day in the summer my sisters and I finally decided to go and see what the “Youth Equine Enrichment
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Immune-mediated disease is essentially the breakdown of the immune system. An example of this disease is Equine recurrent uveitis (ERU)‚ also known as moon blindness‚ affects horses. It is not contagious and symptoms of this disease are swelling of the eyelids‚ corneal edema‚ and blindness. There is no cure for this disease yet and the cause of it has yet to be discovered. Horses with acute uveitis and heavy lymphocyte influxation have a greater chance of developing ERU. When the condition is chronic
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Navicular Disease The Navicular Disease is a relatively common ailment found in horses lower legs. It is a serious disease that can cause a horse to be permanently crippled. It is non reversible but you can keep it from getting worse. Veterinarians don’t agree on what it really is or how it happens. Some physicians say that it’s entirely related to the structure of the hoof and the way the horse travels. It was first described 250 years ago‚ when it was called “coffin joint lameness”
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