side eff ects regarding Red Light therapy, and they have been used by professional sports, and NASA and for physical therapy in humans.
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How does BioScan™ work? T e scanner is a unit with a pronged “wand” that you run over the
horse’s body. What the BioScan™ does is actu- ally look at the nervous system itself, and the response of the nervous system. When it senses activity, it beeps. So if you slam your fi nger in a door, the nerve response for that fi nger is going to be off the chart. You scan the same fi nger on the other hand, and it is quiet and shows very lit le nerve activity. If it’s there it’s there, if it’s not it’s not, it was no longer a subjective/intuitive thing for me. It also diff erentiates from a horse having a “refl ex” vs. actual discomfort.
Have you ever found a horse that had a problem the scanner didn’t pick up? Yes—I call them “blank” spots. Blank spots are
actually much more tricky than places that have a lot of activity showing. A horse that is blocking a traumatized area can show no visible signs of pain. It is like ADD or autistic children where you have to be very calm with them because too much stimulation and they shut everything down. I fi nd this in the horse’s body, as it is trying to say “I can’t take it all in, I just need to stop.” T e body tries to shut out those areas that are bad (like backs from bad saddle fi t), too persistent of pain, too big an injury, shock… shutdown. When a horse is shut down like this, I usually start with red lights at the top of the spine in the poll area, working to
unblock the spine from the head down his entire spine to open it up so there is a connection with the brain.
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So you have been able to fi nd “issues” before they are visible to the eye? You can run your hands down tendons that look
fi ne, and there is no gait anomaly, no change in behavior. But I come in with the scanner, and you fi nd increased nerve activity, especially about a third of the way down the deep digital tendon and suspensory ligament, that whole apparatus that makes the lower leg function. At the back of the knee where all those ligaments and tendons join the bone, that is where they start tearing away. When you get a tear in a suspensory, nobody knows that it’s happening until there is a change in gait, change in at itude and the veterinarian is brought in to ultrasound and sees the tear. But at this point, it is a bit too late, the horse is now in layup and rehab for weeks or even months. When I was working with trainers and veterinarians at Hollywood Park racecourse, I would scan on a regular basis, and the s a
scanner was able to pick up the fi rst inkling of nerve activity in the suspensory, and then I would treat with the red lights. T e red lights actually speed that process so you can take a six-month layup and get them 100% healthy again in six weeks. Because you fi nd the problem before it becomes a real problem. T e vets again did the ultrasound, and now it was healed. T ey were pret y amazed!
So instead of having to wait until the tear actu-
ally happens, you use the scanner and the horse shows you the tendon is hurting, traumatized, overworked, and it is going to break down in a week, two weeks, six weeks, whatever. My work is to scan not only aſt er a problem has happened, but also as “preventive” to gives you a heads up on problems that are starting to happen.
All the ligaments and at achments that hold the patella in place need to be relaxed. Working all the way inside up to the crease will allow you to address the iliopsoas (hip fl exor). T is is the main muscle of downward transition (trot to walk) and mov- ing downhill and causes a lot of hind-end problems.
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Why do you switch f om the scanner to red lights? T e scanner was the instrument I
used to fi nd the heightened nerve activity, and
Leaving one hand “dwell” on the fi rst two vertebrae near the poll, work the entire wedge of the neck from poll to shoulder blades. T e neck muscles work especially hard in climbing hills.
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