Massage therapist Diane Flaherty uses her hands to ensure her clients are in tip-top shape when they trot, canter and jump. The owner of Serenity Wellness Center counts horses among her clientele, ...

LECOMPTON — Barbara Haney’s 30-year-old Arab gelding, Cowboy, leans into her hands as she massages his neck — from just behind his ears to the withers — before moving on to his body. Soon, he stands ...

POWELL, Wyo. – When Kori Cross uses her hands to massage and relax an equine customer, the horse shows his appreciation by sighing and making chewing motions with his mouth. In this case, the massage ...

NORTH BRANFORD In a shady barn at Lanes Pond Farm, Wendy Rivers works her fingers into a quarter horse s glossy coat. She works her way down the horse, from the arched crest of its neck to the sturdy ...

Jennifer Oliver of Central Kentucky Equine Massage Therapy worked on Kasper, a Dutch Warmblood. Oliver has a client list of more than 40 horses. staff SCOTT COUNTY — "The funny thing about massaging ...

"He's telling me, 'Ouch,'" said Cindy McVey, the equine sports massage therapist of Happy Mare Equine Sports Massage Therapy of Lancaster, who was massaging the show horse's muscles. She went back to ...

PARRISH - When Marilee Namaka's horse, Hedzer, got colic, she searched for a way to help him. Hiring a massage therapist for her horse never crossed her mind. "I thought it was a foo-foo thing for ...

ERWINVILLE — Joseph Lockwood dragged his thumb and forefinger in the shape of a U across the back of his patient, trying to find tension spots on the 16-year-old rambunctious horse named Champ. He ...