The Equiband is a tool that’s growing in popularity in the equine industry, and not without good reason. It is designed to improve your horse’s way of going by stimulating their core and hindlimb muscles. Having said this, there is limited research supporting it’s use so it’s important to discuss how beneficial it actually is.

Stretching is defined as elongating something (in this case muscles and tendons) beyond its natural state at rest. However, it isn’t just as simple as that as there are multiple types of stretching. Surprisingly, despite the movements being similar, whether you perform your baited stretches with a carrot or a lick impacts which type of stretching occurs.

Arthritis is one of the most common musculoskeletal issues that often becomes more prevalent with age. Therefore, it is so important how to identify if your pet is showing the signs, and how you can support them should they develop this condition.

Pain is something we and our animals will all unfortunately encounter in our lifetimes, so it is important to understand how it works. Not only that, but we need to know how to spot it as unfortunately our animals can’t speak so we need to be able to read subtle body language hints that tell us our pets might be suffering.