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January 30, 2005
The Horse Massager
Jackie Iddings has found a way to integrate her various careers and life interests into her calling as a massage therapist. She combines craniosacral therapy and myofascial release to treat her clients, both equine and human.
Iddings started her business, Balanced Bodywork, in April, tapping into an emerging field of therapy that treats horse and rider as an athletic team.
"If the rider has a structural misalignment, you’re not going to be balanced on the horse, and the horse will try to compensate, which causes them to tighten up their body, and vice versa," Iddings said.
She names repetitive motion as one of the sources for the problems a horse might experience, with symptoms including stiffness on one side and the inability to make a good turn because of inflexibility.
In riders, Iddings says symptoms of soft tissue restrictions and structural imbalance may include one leg functioning differently than the other, or holding patterns the rider unconsciously uses to maintain balance while riding.
Posted by linda at January 30, 2005 4:44 PM
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