Physiotherapy plays an important role in helping horses recover from musculoskeletal injuries affecting the muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments, and nerves. Whether an injury occurs during training, competition, or simply out in the field, the aim of physiotherapy is to reduce pain, restore normal movement, and support a safe return to work.
Physiotherapy is not only beneficial following injury. Routine treatment can help maintain your horse's performance, flexibility, and comfort, particularly during periods of increased training or competition. Regular assessments can also identify areas of stiffness, weakness, or compensation before they develop into more significant problems, making physiotherapy valuable for horses of all disciplines, including dressage, show jumping, eventing, racing, carriage driving, and leisure riding.
Issy provides a comprehensive assessment before creating an individualised treatment plan tailored to your horse's needs. Treatment may include hands-on manual therapy techniques such as soft tissue massage and joint mobilisations, alongside electrotherapy where clinically appropriate. Rehabilitation exercises form a key part of recovery, with personalised exercise programmes designed to improve strength, mobility, balance, and long-term performance.
Hilltops Physiotherapy provides a mobile service, travelling to your yard to deliver high-quality physiotherapy in your horse's familiar environment. Patients range from happy hackers and competition horses to racehorses and carriage horses, at yards around Innerleithen, Peebles, Galashiels, Selkirk, Melrose and Hawick.
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