Introducing the best equine therapeutic equipment in the world -
a true breakthrough in horse conditioning and injury rehabilitation. With the proper modalities, you can help your horse recover from strenuous activities twice as fast and prepare for every competition without excessive pre-event exertion.

Have you been looking for new and improved physiotherapy modalities for your Equine Athlete? If so, you should know more about our Thermotex™ Equine Therapy System, our Ultrasound Ultrasound Therapy Kits and our Cold Compression Wraps for horses.

Ultrasound™ Ultrasound and Thermotex™ Equine Therapy Systems are core tools of every trainer and owner who really care about their horses. Whether it's international competition, recreational rides, or just daily exercise, horses are susceptible to injury. With the proper care of your valued friends you can avoid most injuries and get peak performance by properly caring for your horse. This means regularly using infrared heating applicances and treating even minor injuires with therapeutic ultrasound. The concepts of heat therapy and ultrasound for equine care have been around for years, but no products even come close to the effectiveness and ease of use of Thermotex™ and Ultrasound™.

Thanks to the advanced technology utilized by Thermotex™ Equine Therapy System, deep penetrating, relaxing infrared heat is delivered to where your horse needs it most. Its most common use is for relief of pain and soreness in muscles and joints. It does this by:

• Removing lactic acid build-up in muscles
• Removing soreness due to injury
• Removing inflammation of the joints caused by arthritis
• Removing sinus inflammation

Additionally, pre-competition use will dramatically improve performance levels.

• Enhances respiratory system
• Removes sinus congestion
• Acts as a diuretic and helps bleeders
• Reduces lactic acid levels to prevent tying up during competition

Furthermore, post-competition use will speed recovery time, relieving soreness and inflammation.

As can be seen, whatever discipline your equine is involved in, we can help them perform at the best of their abilities!

Gentle, Deep Penetration of Thermal Energy

Infrared therapeutic heating will achieve a higher level of temperature within horse tissue and at a greater depth of penetration than any other heating method (hot towel or heating pad, for example). Furthermore,

• The gentle heat application is much more even throughout the tissue depth
• The temperature of the musculature rises more quickly and stays at a therapeutic level longer (heating pads cool quickly, but our infrared system emits a steady stream of thermal energy throughout the length of treatment)

... a safer and much more effective treatment than conventional therapy!

Increased Metabolic Process in Tissue Cells

An increase in thermal energy within the tissue (via infrared therapy) increases activity (metabolic process) within the tissue cells. As a result of this, there is an increase in blood flow to the area, a decrease in pain and stiffness, and an increase in tissue extensibility.

Vasodilation

The increased blood flow (vasodilation) to the treated area is typically six times that of the blood flow to the same anatomical area during resting conditions. As a result, not only is there much more oxygen and nutrients brought to the area, the flushing of cellular waste products is also greatly enhanced.

Analgesic Effects

The application of infrared heat provides a sedative effect upon the sensory nerve endings and ultimately lease to a relaxation within the tissues (especially muscle tissue). The increased blood flow increased the rate of removal of waste products of injury such as prostaglandins, bradykinin and histamine, all of which contribute to nerve fiber sensitization and pain.

Just as important, the application of heat results in an overstimulation of the nervous tissue (increased ability for the nerve to transmit and receive impulses). This overstimulation interferes with the nerve fibers ability to perceive pain, resulting in a state of analgesia (absence of the sense of pain).

Muscle Tissue Elasticity, Greater Range of Motion

With an increase in the blood flow and and increased temperature in the tissue, muscle tissue elasticity is enhanced. Muscles return from a state of spasm into a relaxed mode, permitting them to elongate further and more efficiently during exercise. Tendons and ligaments become more elastic and flexible as well, providing a greater level of injury prevention during future exercise and allows for a greater range of motion. Tests have shown that there is a decrease in the viscosity of the synovial flued within the joint, thus allowing it to function in an enhanced state of lubrication.

Positive Psychological Effect

Perhaps the most immediate noticable effect of a Thermotex™ treatment can be seen purely from observation of the equine shortly after the treatment starts.

Within a couple minutes of starting treatment, the patient shows noticable signs of calm. In a typical treatment, the horse will be seen lowering its head and relaxing within a couple minutes. Often its eyes will begin to close and its stance will become increasingly relaxed.

When treatment is intended as a pre-event warm-up, these benefits can be quickly realized; the equine will be relieved of its stress and much more limber. It will perform at its peak level!

Here is what Dr. Donald Riegel, noted veterinarian (DVM) and author of numerous books on the subject of Equine health has to say.

"The Thermotex™ Equine Blanket produces a deep-penetrating yet comfortable, muscle relaxing heat. Thermotex™ provides heat in areas of the equine that need a source of heat to reduce inflammation. The equine athlete not only needs a treatment program to reduce inflammation when it is injured but can also benefit from the use of this blanket as a pre-event warm-up. If a horse can be treated for 20-30 minutes before a race or event just think how much better it will perform compared to horses that have not been treated with a Thermotex™ Blanket."

Therapeutic Blanket with 12 Elements

12 elements provide full body coverage for effective treatment of severe muscle and joint problems. Also effective for early treatment of lung bleeding.

Extended Leggings

The leggings are an absolute must for quick treatment of soreness of bows, splints, osolets, buck shins, anklets, ring bone and tendons. There are four elements in each leg unit and the leggings come in pairs. Leggings fit both front and back legs equally well.

Hood

About 82% of all horses suffer from sinus problems. The Hood helps your horse get a breath out of life. The Hood helps treat blisters, sinus, flapper, star-angular glands, pharyingitis, and helps your horse breath better. The Hood has two elements with one located on the front sinus and the other on the throat.

TMJ Hood

For specific use on the jaw area, this model uses 2 - 3"x 8" infrared pads utilizing 24 watts of power. This model has 2 adjustable panels and is best suited to treatment of Temporomandibular Dysfunction giving pain relief and increasing blood flow. This system is very effective.

Neck

Three element positions with the first position over the spine for pre-chiropractic adjustment. Lower side positions to treat the main muscle mass in the neck. Elements lower on the throat position, which, in combination with our Hood that covers the sinus and upper throat area and our 12 element Blanket, provides effective treatment of the lung and respiratory system.

Ultrasound ultrasound, a form of acoustic energy acts as a deep tissue therapy agent and is used to treat musculo-skeletal injuries. In the same way that ultrasound therapy works with the human musculoskeletal system, equine ultrasound therapy is great for a broad range of conditions.

The most popular use of ultrasound is for focused treatment on an injury, especially:

• hoof wall abscesses
• tendinitis
• bursitis
• calcium deposits
• muscle spasm relaxation
• pain relief
• improvement of tissue (muscle and tendon) flexibility
• increased healing rate for post-surgery and post-injury recovery
• increased joint mobility (alleviates arthritic joints and prevents atrophy)
• softening of scar tissue
• inflammation reduction

Using both the thermotex infrared therapy blankets and Ultrasound ultrasound, your horse will get the combination of targeted and generalized treatment to achieve a 100% recovery rate in the fastest way possible. With our equine trainer packs, racer packs or hobbyist packs you can get the equine therapy tools you need to get your horse back on the track quickly and in the money.

As you probably know, tendonitis is one of the most common injuries facing equine athletes, and can put the animal out of training and racing without ever making a full recovery. In 1978 the Equine Veterinary Journal published Histological Studies of the Effects of Ultrasonic Therapy on Surgically Split Flexor Tendons. The researchers describe a favorable clinical response in horses with injured superficial flexor tendons, to ultrasound therapy. The histological picture of the repair process in surgically split tendons is described following 10 minutes of treatment 6 times/week, for 2 weeks. One month after surgery the treated tendons showed an absence of the inflammatory reaction and the degenerative areas that were observed in the control (animals not receiving ultrasound) tendons. A network of newly branching blood vessels was seen crossing the incision line and passing into the tissue. The authors reported that this vascular network was associated with massive invasion of young fibroblasts migrating to the incision gap from the surrounding tissue. Six weeks after surgery, collagen fibrils were seen to join with the cut tendon surfaces. The ultrasound treated tendons healed with little scarring.

The Ultrasound kit includes a free handy travel bag so you can treat your horse where ever you go. It is lightweight, safe and portable - a must when using in the barn. Its contoured handle and long cord allows for comfortable, easy application to all areas of the horse without it getting in your way.

The Ultrasound home therapy product has also been recognized and/or approved by the following institutes: