Welcome to my blog
Hello 
My name is Heidi Richardson, I am the founder of Horsewell Equine Rehab and have decided to start this blog. Every week I get emails from people with questions regarding injuries and therapies. So from now on I will be writing a fornightly blog on interesting topics for horse owners/trainers and riders. Having recently attended the AAEP vet conference in Colorado, which over 300 vets from around the world attended, I discovered that there are so many pieces of info that I have taken away from that conference that can be of value to trainers and riders. Over the next couple of months I will pick through my notes and add these insights to my blog. So check back for regular up dates.
Heidi
March 18th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Hi Hiedi
I work for a Christchurch based company that provides medical equipment for helping treat pain in humans, but is very effective on horses and animals.
It does not detect the horse or animal is in pain but if you know its in pain or has an injury, this equipment will relieve it and highly likely get rid of it for good. If you are interested let me know.
Cheers
July 28th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Hello Heidi,
i am a Physiotherapist that spent 9 years in the US on woundcare with humans and now collecting rsearch for equine wounds. Tissue behaves very differently in equine wounds i’m finding and the proud flesh is something of a battle at times. I have also been using laser for many years with my human clients and now discovering how the laser treatments behave on horses. Firstly, treating a wound at the stifle can be challenging and take time, swelling, proud flesh, too much movement encouraging proud flesh?, circulation, gravity/swelling, damaged lymph vessels/swelling… all against me… I’m curious to the length of time it would take without the laser in comparison to using the laser. Obviousley it depends onm the size and depth of the wound but in general are there any studies out there that can demonstrate how much quicker a wound heals with laser in comparison to conservative treatment.
i have been treating this horse in particular for 3 weeks. In acute stage everyday, then 3 x/ week. Owner then wanted to leave it for 4 days to see if it would heal quicker without laser, I suggested we continue as the wound was looking good, moist, no slough, great circulation. Owner wanted the horse back in training, not what i suggested at all. Any advice would be great or further reading.