Clients...

UK & Europe Professionals...

"Tendon injuries unfortunately come with performance horses, be it racing, eventing, showjumping or polo. These have traditionally taken a long time to respond and in the first cases of Spa use I saw, I couldn't believe the rate of recovery with results I hadn't previously achieved throughout my 35 years of veterinary experience.


Trainers who have used the Spa on a regular basis have quickly established that there is a major cost benefit in terms of keeping horses competing right through their training period."


Professor Evan Hunt BVSc MVSc PhD GDip ed Tert MRCVS, University of Sydney Orange, Australia

"...cryotherapy applied to the distal limbs of horses safely and effectively ameliorates the clinical signs and pathology of acute laminitis." (Van Eps and Pollitt 2009).




JVan Eps, A.W. and Pollitt, C.C. (2009) Equine Laminitis model: cryotherapy reduces the severity of lesions evaluated 7 days after experimental induction with oligofructose. Equine vet. J. 41, doi: 10.2746/042516409X042444953.

"The use of seawater in helping healing is not new but taking the water to the horse is innovative. I have seen many horses with tendon injuries that have responded remarkably well to the spa, it has the ability to reduce the acute inflammatory phase rapidly and this is an important part in starting the healing process.

Re-injuries also benefit from the spa via the reduction of the chronic inflammation that is commonly present in old lesions, in many cases this has led to a reduced amount of pain associated with the injury."


"A lot of tendon injuries I've seen go through the Spa have not required any further treatment and that is the beauty of the ECB Spa"

Jeremy Swan MRCVS, Partner, Bourton Vale Equine Clinic, Gloucestershire




"Her response to treatment was remarkable, as the discharge soon dried up and the pain rapidly subsided. The case demonstrates the effectiveness of spa therapy, where more conventional treatments proved inadequate."

Mike Daly MRCVS, Woodlands Veterinary Clinic, Cheltenham. Talking about a referal he made to The Centre for Natural Equine Therapy (Case Study 2 - Wound Hock in PDF Gallery)


"It is recognised that 20 - 40% of horses in National Hunt Racing suffer to some degree with their flexor tendons... the Spa results have been really impressive which is exciting."

Tim Meir MRCVS who works closely with Equine Hydrotherapy Centre, Lingfield


“Hydrotherapy is an exciting development in the management of acute and chronic limb injuries. Its natural safe basis encourages its use over a wide range of conditions in accelerating and maintaining repair."

Chris House BVet Med MRCVS who works closely with the Aquus Equine Spa, Essex, UK.

“I have been working as a farrier now for 14 years predominately with racehorses, and I am astounded at the difference of the condition of hoofs after being through the cold water spa. The spa seems to increase hoof growth, helps fight infection in the hoof and in my experience is a definite benefit to horses with lamonitic conditions"

Robin Evans Master Farrier who worked closely with The Centre for Natural Equine Therapy, UK