The common problem with horses  

More often than not lameness in horses is caused by muscular restriction and a lack of blood circulation through muscle groups. Tight and tense horses do not take in enough oxygen when they are like this. Muscles between the ribs get very tight, thereby restricting the lungs filling themselves with oxygen, which then travels in the blood stream eventually to the brain. The brain controls everything operating in the horse’s body.

Horses receiving shock from injury, or having internal or external stress, experience overloads to the body systems and this results in a scrambling of the bio-electrical impulses to the brain and nervous system. 

When the overload gets really bad it can reach a point where there may be a cellular and chemical breakdown within the physiological attributes of the horses being. This is usually when horses do not look too well. 

For horses to heal, then we need to reduce the stress in their body and brain to activate the life forces and body systems. This in turn will restore the bio-electrical imbalance of the brain and nervous system, resulting in a reduction of pain and promote restoration of proper body function

When there is a lack of oxygen, lactic acid forms in cells.
An excess of lactic acid is removed from the working muscle, as is other post-exercise debris, via the circulation of blood and oxygen in the horse’s body.

Normally it can take 3-4 hours for a muscle to be cleansed. So, when horses are tight and tense, you can imagine how the lactic acid is built up in the muscles and the flow of blood and oxygen is reduced. Toxic waste will be building up in the muscles and in and around the joints. We can see a combination of things occurring at the same time. Flexion and extension of the horses joints will be limited, the horse will not be going as good as it can and recovery rate from workload will take longer than it normally should. 

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