Horses have Aches and Pains Too: Treatment clinic available from 19th April at Balquholly Cross Country Centre
It is not just humans that suffer from bad backs and muscular spasm – animals suffer too, dogs and horses in particular.
Mctimoney Animal Practitioner Grania Ingleby has launched a home visit spinal alignment/massage service for horses and dogs in the North East of Scotland, alongside regular clinics at Balquholly Cross Country Centre, Turriff, beginning the 19th April.
Grania from Glass, Aberdeenshire (where her family farm and run the annual Aswanley Horse Trials) took a degree in International Agriculture and Equine Business Management at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. A qualified sports and remedial massage therapist, she recently added to her client list having taken a three year degree course at the Mctimoney College, Oxford in Animal Manipulation, using the Mctimoney technique.
The Mctimoney Animal treatment is a non-invasive holistic technique, which works to realign and balance the musculoskeletal system, restoring health, movement and performance, especially after an injury, whether the cause was chronic or acute. Veterinary permission must be sought before a treatment.
The idea for the April clinic came from eventer Alastair Garnett who set up Balquholly Cross Country when he found there was a shortage of practice courses in the North East of Scotland. Now Alastair and Grania plan to hold regular clinics at Balquholly. However, Grania expects demand for home visits from both horse and dog owners. “ Quite often owners and animals cannot travel so I can travel to their home or yard. As I am working between Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh I can cover a large area of the East Coast”.
Grania can be contacted on 07793886182 or through www.back2form.co.uk
Notes to editors
Veterinary permission must be sought before treatment. The treatment of animals is regulated under the Veterinary Act of 1966. The Veterinary Surgery (exemptions) order of 1962 authorises manipulative therapies such as those used by McTimoney animal practitioners providing they practice with the prior consent of he animal’s veterinary surgeon.
Grania Ingleby is fully insured and a member of the McTimoney Animal Association and the British Complementary Medicine Association. |
