More Horse and Rider Health with Dr Kristin Mowry, DPT

More Horse and Rider Health with Dr Kristin Mowry, DPT

Dr. Allison Marshall and her brilliant and amazing friend Dr. Kristin Mowry discuss more health topic for both horse and rider, including good exercises, being cognizant of the horse-rider connection for the optimization of performance, and of course, sour dough bread and her new cookbook.  Enjoy!

Integrating Rider Health with Horse Health

Dr Allison Faber Marshall talks with Dr Kristen Mowry today, DPT and owner of The Healing and Wellness Center of Davidsonville, MD.  Dr Mowry is a long time equestrienne, and through functional medicine helps humans raise their level of health.  Dr. Mowry treats riders through body work, nutrition, and supplements, and can help us understand how many of the same principles apply to their horses.  We talk today about how your health affects your horse's health, and how integrated a horse and rider are through food, environmental toxins, and stress.  Learn how to manage your own health better, and therefore how to use these principles to level up your horse's health too!

Supporting Equine Vets and Horses

This topic may sound a bit boring, but as many of you know, there is a lack of veterinarians entering into equine practice and no one to fill the shoes of the veterinarians headed into a well-deserved retirement.  What this means to horse owners is that in the future, there will be less and less options for veterinary care across the country.  Take a listen to this quick episode exploring the Foundation for the Horse, and arm of the American Association of Equine Practitioners and learn what is being done to address this issue, and support our equines in ways that may help you and your horses in the future.

Dr Jessica Myers, DPT talks about dry needling and Graston technique in horses

Dr Jessica Myers, DPT joins Dr. Allison Marshall, DVM today in illuminating a few more holistic modalities and how they can be used to help your horse.  Dr. Myers shares her experience with us in both horses and humans and their responses to both dry needling and Graston techniques.  On the cutting edge of new medicine!

Basic Chiropractic - the science behind why and how your horses can improve with good body work and manual therapy

Whether you are a skeptic of chiropractic, or you have used it for years with good results on your horses, this episode strives to help you understand the medical concepts behind veterinary manipulation and how it helps bodies heal, even when we might not see that they need improvement.  Dr Allison Marshall does a solo episode on basic medical understandings of healing through fascial release, and how manual therapy can help improve your horse's performance and life in general.