How will light therapy help to ease the pain of kissing spines in horses?
Photizo Vetcare’s healing power helps to:
- Stimulate the production of collagen. Collagen is an essential protein used to repair damaged tissue. It is the most common protein found in the body.
- Increase circulation almost immediately. By helping to generate an increase in blood flow to the treatment areas the light therapy normalises and heals injured cells. By increasing blood flow more oxygen and nutrients are transported to the affected area, and waste products taken away.
- Reduce oedema (swelling). Oedema has two components, liquid and protein. Researchers have shown that the lymph diameter and the flow of the lymph system can be nearly doubled with the use of light therapy.
- Stimulate the release of endorphins which are the body’s own pain-fighting
Kissing spines (also known as wobbler disease or cervical vertebral malformation) is a well-known and common problem in many types of horses which are used for many different working activities.
Kissing spines in horses is a condition that develops when the spinous processes of the vertebrae touch one another, rather than being evenly and adequately spaced apart.
There are a variety of symptoms associated with kissing spines in horses. Symptoms can range from mild to severe. Symptoms may include:
- Avoidance behaviours
- Inability to bend direction
- Cross cantering
- Abnormal gait
- Difficulty maintaining a correct canter
- Pain in the back region
- Attempting to bite as girth is being tightened
- Resisting the bit
- Not willing to jump
- Irritability when being brushed
- Stiffness in the back
- Buckling.
