Update on Red Light Therapy Externship

Nashama · Update on Red Light Therapy Externship

Hi All,

Just popping in quickly (when I should be typing my field notes back

) to say 'hi'.

I am currently about half way through my JENT (red light therapy) externship horses. I took 3 weeks off work to do them so things are full on for me driving 200km a day to my 5 horses, treating them, researching, talking to the owners, talking to Di, my teacher, etc.

Effectiveness... Lets just say I am cautiously RAPT with my 6 externship horses. I did one a while back that crashed into some steel rails and came up with some nasty cuts and bruises, and his rate of healing was phenomenal.

Of the 5 left to do, I have a mare that bucked her rider off so hard the rider cracked her hip, a dressage gelding that will not pick his hooves up for anyone, a mare with club hind hooves and a mare with a turned out foreleg.

The dressage gelding belongs to the local Bowen therapist and she could find no reason for him to behave as he does, but he is showing us some fascinating things deep in his hips that only acutherapy can really access, so I am particularly pleased with his progress.

The owners and I are pretty pleased so far.

To add to the fun my favourite Appaloosa willed me to come do him when I was in the paddock next door, and I found him about to blow his front tendons again. 2 JENT treatments in and some clay poultice, and we have headed off the tendon blow-out. So pleased, but clearly not half as pleased as the horse.

The question of does red light therapy really make a difference has been answered this last couple of weeks with a resounding YES!

Anyways, better finish these notes.

Cheers,
Julia

ElaineC

This is very interesting, and also very cool! Can't wait till you can post more on it

I know I'm very interested not just for my horses but also for myself, for my fibromyalgia/cmp. I'm really looking forwards to experimenting with it.

PasoBaby_CarolU

Julia, not that this has ONE thing to do with red light therapy on horses (which I'm glad you are doing very well with), but since you are taking classes from the original red light folks, could you suggest they come up with hand tool that grasps the red light for PEOPLE to do their own back?

Something like this: http://theracane.com/

But with a bar and clamp that will hold the red light solid at a 90-degree angle to the back and neck, so a person can treat themselves. I try attaching my light with rubber bands to a theracane, but the angle is wrong and they don't hold it steady enough to do a decent job.

Pretty please

Candy

anyone know - are there any classes un the SW US?
I have the light & so far have good results but I have a hard time understanding what Dr McLaren says in the DVD testing instruction (plus it won't work on my Mac) & rarely have anyone to assist me
thans\ks
Candy

eva

You can check out the website of Dianne or write to Brian to find out.

I m doing a workshop next WE in the UK with Liz (http://www.galesphotonictherapy.com/vet.html). she is Brians distributor in the UK.

And in 6 months I hope to do one with Dianne.....Exciting

So Julia...I m very excited to read your topic !

Nashama

Hi Everyone,

I will try and get you an update soon. I had some fabulous results and have some really happy owners, did 3000km and about 50 treatments including the ring-ins, some of which were human.

Cheers,
Julia

Nashama

Hi All,

Di is doing courses in 5 countries in the next 12 months. Having done both the McLaren Method and Di's JENT course over the 3 years of study since I first started, I am choosing to qualify as a JENT practitioner. Course details should be on Di's web site when they are available. When you go do it, be grateful to those of us who have tested the course content and externship before you - we, the very first group!

For those of you wanting to qualify, it has taken me 3 years of study before I thought I was ready to qualify, so don;t be disheartened if you come away feeling inadequate and like you will never get it. You will know when you are ready.

Well, the summary of the horses is:-

Horse 1 - a 2yo gelding crashed into cattle rail and had a history of anti-social behaviour towards humans. I found a broken tail and damaged sacrum and right shoulder. After first aid, I had an amazing healing rate, he became a much calmer horse, a much less right brained horse, and a much more pleasant one to be around. His sacral area has improved.

Horse 2 was supposed to be Mr Perfect as he has had chiro on his hip since he was a few weeks old. Even so the torch found it does niggle a little. Then he had a paddock party and made himself a very sore 2yo colt. The original hip has improved and the damage he did in his part has healed rapidly. His 7 Games have improved greatly and he just loves his treatments. Yep, Mr Perfect is young Zainal, our own colt. As Glen does massage and chiro as well as hooves, I never put the torch on Zainal.

Horse 3 is a Quarab mare, reknowned for bucking. She pushed her sternum out and damaged her pectorals. The last treatment she had healed that. SHe gave me a lot of attitude for doing other horses before her. I can;t say I was that rapt in her, but she did provide the biggest laugh of the externship by scruffing through my clipboard while I was doing another horse and taking off with her own reflex chart in her mouth. Definitely a Benny Hill moment!

Horse 4 is an Arabian mare with club hind feet, which when she is older will eventually put her down at the bumpers. Well, do I have an excited farrier of this mare. I found hip injuries, and over the three weeks this grumpy mare became Ms Nice. Her whole hindquarter angles changed and the farrier checked her hooves weekly and rasped them lightly as her angles changed. In 3 weeks she has a measurable increase in heel width and strength, and toe length. I am going to continue to treat this mare as a research project to see how much of the club I can get out of her hind legs.

Horse 5 is a Stock Horse mare and what a mess. She was one of my ridden horses and she had bucked her rider off so hard she cracked the riders hip. I had to have the chiropractor deal with her sacral vertebrae before I even started. Shaggy, had not shed her winter coat, etc. By Treatment 3 she was making sure I could see she was ready for her treatment every time she saw my car come into the agistment centre. After watching her owner chase her to catch her, she came to the gate and put her head in the halter for me without her owner there, then bossed me into treating her injuries. FINALLY a human was hearing her pain and listening to what she had to say, and she made the most of it. At the end of the three weeks her coat was shining, she was much better behaved, and she has been handed over to the chiropractor and Bowen therapist for further work on her ligaments. This mare needs combination therapies as she is the hardest ridden horse I have ever seen.

Horse 6 is the most beautiful TB dressage gelding. I found he had a twisted pelvis, tendon problems and scar tissue for a gelding gone wrong. The owner had him in magnificent muscle condition yet the torch got deep into this 16.3hh horse's hips and allowed the releases of muscle and ligaments that helped them straighten. This horse had not competed in 12 months and went to a dressage comp 2 weeks in and got second and 2 thirds. His owner is ecstatic and plans to do the next JENT course. Mentally he was much less spooky.

The ring-ins were my favourite appaloosa, all 6 horses here and some husbands who think if its good enough for the horses...

I and the owners and my horse handlers learned an incredible amount through this process. Now for the paper work to be finished and got back to Ireland. :p

Sorry, Carol, I don't know of any devices :lol:

Cheers,
Jules

eva

Thanks for all that great info, I love to read about it.

I just did Level 1 & 2 of the McLaren Photonic Therapy with Liz in the UK.
And in 2010 when Di comes back to Europe after her trip in the US, I ll do her course.
Right now I m also doing a great online course about equine anatomy from the equinology.com group.

So keep us informed !

Nashama

Yep, Di used to teach the McLaren courses in Canberra, but she brought a lot of her own experiences into JENT, so this last course I am hapopy to recommend both courses.

I just leapt ahead of where the McLaren had me with a good start. BOTH are excellent courses, JENT has the advantage that we can and will use other practitioners if we think the horse needs it.

Yes, I am also enroled in the EQ50, I just need to get through this externship first. Fortuantely Deb understands and loves my updates on JENT. Di is one of her EBW's! :lol: