Emma Barber Veterinary Physiotherapy & Equine Movement Solution

Veterinary Physiotherapy

Biomechanical and rehabilitation training

Veterinary physiotherapy can be used to help restore, maintain, and promote physical function. Being a suitable modality for all horses.

Emma offers a combination of manual therapies, electrotherapies, and remedial exercise to address musculoskeletal issues.

Evolving as prey animals, horses are particularly good at hiding pain and discomfort. Veterinary physiotherapy can help detect and resolve these issues before they become a problem.

Veterinary physiotherapy can also be used to enhance performance, rehabilitate from injury, and as a maintenance assessment to monitor your horse's health and welfare at any age.

Biomechanical and rehabilitation training

The methods taught by Emma aim to improve every horse's movement and future health, with poor or reduced functioning posture and asymmetry impacting health and performance.

Modern schooling methods often don't consider the horse as a whole. Placing increased focus on the head and neck position, but not considering the rest of the body and how it functions biomechanically.

Emma's aims are to provide owners with the skills to be able to see and understand poor posture and movement. And to provide them with tools to help improve these issues with every horse they work with.

These methods can be used at any stage of a horses' life, and are beneficial for straightening natural asymmetry, correcting poor posture, pre-habilitation, and re-habilitation, calming the nervous or excitable horse and to help preparing the young horse for ridden work.

About Emma

Qualifications

Emma has been working in the equine industry for over 25 years, having qualified as a Veterinary Physiotherapist in 2013 and a McTimoney Animal practitioner in 2011.

She is a qualified instructor, obtaining her BHS AI in 1999, which gives her the perfect skills to help teach clients rehabilitation techniques that work effectively alongside regular Veterinary Physiotherapy appointments.

About Emma

Qualifications

She is a keen horsewoman, having ridden and owned horses for most of her life, currently owning two ex-racing TBs, Sollie and Ellin.

Sollie is now a man of leisure filling his time with in-hand walking, groundwork, and eating, and Ellin is a general riding horse having been rehabilitated by Emma through various ailments including overriding dorsal spinal processes and proximal suspensory desmitis.

Ambitions

Qualifications

Ambitions

Emma is passionate about equine welfare and care, believing that continued learning and education is at the heart of improving how we manage, ride, and train horses.

She believes that providing owners and caregivers with the knowledge of how to work, train, and manage their horses holistically, will improve the life of leisure and sports horses through correct training and managment.

Services Available / Price List

Initial consultation

£60

This initial assessment is carried out for all horses as their first visit.

It involves discussion of the horse's full history, gait assessment, palpation, followed by treatment. All therapies are included (manual and/or electrotherapies) with no additional hidden costs. Owners will receive a full report and recommendations.

Allow 60-90 minutes

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Equine Maintenance Assessment

£55

This assessment includes gait assessment, palpation, and treatment with manual and/or electrotherapies. A full report and recommendations are provided.

This assessment is available for regular clients previously seen in the last 12 months.

Allow 60-75 minutes

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Groundwork Lesson / Health Assessment

£40

An initial assessment is carried out including gait and preliminary palpation to ensure your horse is ready to start groundwork training. We discuss aims for the lesson, how poor posture impacts your horse and start developing techniques to promote good movement and posture.

This assessment must be carried out if your horse has not had a veterinary physiotherapy assessment by Emma Barber.

Allow 90-120 minutes

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Groundwork Lesson

£30

Lesson including varied groundwork techniques to improve posture and movement in your horse.

Allow 45-60 minutes

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Long Rein / Double Lunging Lesson

£25

Long reining and double lunging are great techniques to use to improve performance and fitness in your horse. They are a great alternative to lunging and are often recommended as part of a rehabilitation programme.

Emma can teach you and your horse how to use each technique.

Allow 45-60 minutes

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Call Out Fee

£5-£10

A Call Out Fee of £5 will be applied to areas 30–40-mile distance from home location, for all areas within a 30-mile distance there is no fee.

Areas over 40 miles distance a £10 call out fee will apply.

Call out fee is a single payable fee per visit. If visiting more than one horse in an individual location, the fee can be split between each participant.

(Illustration as an approximate guide, call out fee will be discussed at time of booking)

Prices are correct at time of publishing but may be subject to change