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Clients...
USA & Canada Professionals...
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"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."
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Professor Evan Hunt BVSc MVSc PhD GDip ed Tert MRCVS, University of Sydney Orange, Australia
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"...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).
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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. |
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"The ECB Spa combines three things we have individually been doing to horses legs forever, which are cold water, soaking in Epsom salts, and turbulating. It does the same in 10 minutes that an hour in an ice tub or turbulator boot does so it produces results while saving time and money. Most of the horses at the 2009 Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno, Nevada took a trip to the Spa to freshen their legs before the finals."
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Joe Carter D.V.M. Oklahoma, USA |
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"Sometimes, the most simple ideas are the most brilliant. We are all aware of the effect of ice on inflammation and saltwater on wounds. The problem is that our industry has been trapped in tradition. Trapped by using 20th century techniques in a world full of 21st century progress. The Equine spa has very effectively married the concepts of tried and true antiinflammatory treatments with state of the art technology.
I was introduced to the Equine spa when one of my patients,"Better Talk Now" had an open wound that became infected just prior to a race in Saratoga, NY. We elected to use the Equine spa's healing properties of cold salt hydrotherapy to aid in the healing process and eliminate any further complications. Three, 10 minute daily treatments were all we used in this case. The wound is no longer a problem.
Certainly, financial considerations will always be a factor in our profession, but here is a product that would be expensive NOT to have. The uses go far beyond the example I cited. The ability of the Equine spa to lower the temperature of the entire equine limb so completely and rapidly, could eliminate the use of more traditional methods that employ more time and effort.
Once again, the Equine spa's balance of simplicity and results are unmatched in our industry."
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Dr Luis A. Castro, DVM. Vice President Teigland, Franklin & Brokken, DVM's, PA
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