Milton, March 7, 2025, many 22-year-olds are registered horse therapists, and even less do their own business, but Jenna Arbuckle through a passion for well-being and inventive therapeutic techniques is not the average 22-year-old.
After graduating from the Trios College, in particular the D'Arcy Lane School of Equine Massage Therapy, Arbuckle started the Equines equilibrium to provide the racehorses a non-invasive, natural treatment approved by AGCO.
The regime, which combines your specialist knowledge in the horse massage with salt therapy, is interpreted for the treatment of horses with respiratory and skin-related symptoms.
If she does not offer treatments from her double horses, the versatile horse spends her morning as a groom.
Arbuckle talks about her way to horse massage therapy, how her unique approach helps the animals that she loves and more.
Q: Where does the interest in horse massage therapy/salt therapy come from?
A: “When I grew up, I rode a little horses, but I had other sports, so I didn't really have the opportunity to promote this way. Then my sister brought me to standard breds. At that time I was at the university, and the program in which I was in I didn't like it, so I got out. I was looking for another program because my parents wanted me to have a degree and I thought: “I have to do something with horses.”
“After that I found salt therapy online and we started talking and they liked that I was in the massage program. I have the background of the respiratory system because we document these courses and the horse in general. They decided that I was doing well with them and we went ahead.
“At the moment I mainly focus on salt therapy because there are many other massage therapists, but there are not many fans for horses.”
Q: Talk about your Equilibrium for Equines and some of your goals for it.
A: “Not a lot of people know about it, but it's a holistic way to really aid the horses. We would like to expand the knowledge of salt and its advantages for the horse community to aid you are more open to the idea of these holistic treatments that may not be used as often.
“It offers a real opportunity to change the future of veterinary medicine. The World Equestrian Center in Ocala [Florida] has a salt therapy room alongside your veterinary practices to aid with wound healing and various other complaints.
“We want to take ideas out there, bring them here and hopefully implement them into other veterinary practices – also in Woodbine. We have the mobile trailer and we can get out every Sunday or are best suited for most coaches and if there is a consistent market for it, and people really like it, maybe implement a constant stand. ”
Q: Why is the improvement of the quality of life critical for you?
“I had a little asthma that grew up and trained. I played basketball and I will be truthful, sometimes it is sometimes challenging to breathe, especially in chilly weather. I know that thoroughbreds do not drive often in chilly weather, but many standard breds. I worked with many standard breds, especially in this area (Campbellville, On), and the treatments aid to eliminate the additional mucus in your lungs, especially in this weather, in spring and even in summer.
“Some horses have a lot of mucus. I could only imagine how challenging it would be to breathe, especially if a horse or a race horse has asthma. You cannot run a good race if you have difficulty breathing.
“These horses train almost every day of their lives. Yes, their legs and muscles are very critical, as we know, but also their lungs. They carry gallons air and can extend to the full thorax of their body. It is pretty astronomical how large these animals are and how much we have to take care of them in every respect.
“We do a lot of it with your legs and bodies, but internally we don't have much for the breathing system, and salt is pretty much the same as with the saline solution. It is only in a different form. It is parched instead of humid. It does the same job as a atomizer that many thoroughbred horses and trainers utilize. “
Q: You also work as a standard building. What is the most rewarding part of it?
A: “To see how elated the horses are. It is so worth seeing that these horses are elated to work particularly on it. I love to connect to a horse. They are so different in many ways and no horse is the same. You get one and you somehow fall in love with him and then because you don't have it, the horse leaves unfortunately and you get another one, but that's the business.
“I just love to come in and be able to break them and get them on their way to the best what they can be. It is worth seeing how you win when you do it, and even if this is not the case, it is still nice to see that you will get on the track. “
Q: What makes race horses so unique and special to work?
A: “There are so many things. They also learn to love you because they know that you take care of them and make them elated. You can see that you often make you elated. When you get in and a horse is furious, you know that something is going on. Racing horses are so expressive. They are not very stoic – some can be, usually the older ones – but they keep them busy.
“You are five to ten hours a day with them, depending on how long you have been in the barn, and most of the time some groom have only five horses. You spend a lot of time with this animal. You get to know you, you trust you and it really helps you to produce this unique personality.
“Everything about horses lets my life run around.”
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