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Ladd Stokes, Temecula, CA “Horse Shoer”
Horse: Quarter Horse, “Lacy,” DOB: 1988
Condition: Osteomyelitis in hock
Steve & Denise Strand, Cabazon, CA “Team Ropers”
Horse: “Jake“
Condition: Bowed tendon
Art & Lori Parker, Cabazon, CA “Team Ropers”
Horse: “Jack“
Condition: Lameness
Lauren Nethery, Cherry Valley, CA “Trail Horse”
Horse: Half-Arabian “Misty,” DOB: 1978
Condition: Bowed tendon
Lorna Burke, Banning, CA “Halter Horse”
Horse: “Enough Said” aka “Hunk,” registered paint, DOB: 1995
Condition: Painful shoulder, lame on the left front
T. A. Franklin, CA. “Dressage Horse”
Horse: Arabian / Trakaner “Maybe Later”
Condition: Lameness in left hip
Lacy: Hock injury (Owner — Ladd Stokes, Horseshoer) back to top
Lacy looked like she had been kicked in the hock. It started with an open soreabout the size of a half dollar. I didn’t think a whole lot about it at the time, but over the next couple of days it got really bad. We put her on heavy-duty antibiotics and took x-rays. The doctor said there was a dead bone chip in there causing a bone infection and that the chip had to come out. We sent Lacy for surgery. They scraped the bone and she did really well for about 10 days. Then she went downhill. We had the bone scraped a second time, and again, she did okay for another 10 days, then started going downhill. After each scraping there would be a fresh wound, and the draining was just awful. Finally, the whole hock was infected plus she had a contracted tendon because of being confined to a stall. We really didn’t expect her to live. The vet recommended putting her down. We hated the thought of losing her and thought if we could get her well enough to live her life out in pasture, maybe she could be a brood mare.
I called Nancy Hall and we discussed possibilities, deciding to put Lacy on the Dynamite program. Her response was amazing. In 30 days, the wound had dried up and was healing. Unfortunately, Lacy came down with dryland distemper and was sick for 6 months. We kept her on the Dynamite supplements and, when she was well enough, took her to Nancy’s facility where she received regular Acuscope treatments for her hock injury over a three-month period. When she finally returned home, her condition was resolved and she was able to work again. We took her on a pack trip and she did great. Today, the hock is still a little larger than normal and has a little scar tissue, but she’s doing fantastic. She has no pain and is happy and healthy.
Jake: Bowed tendon (Owners — Steve & Denise Strand, Team Ropers) back to top
Upon receiving the diagnosis of a bowed tendon from my vet, I immediately contacted Nancy Hall to find out what Acuscope/Myopulse could do for my horse. Mine was the first bowed tendon Nancy ever worked on, and Nancy worked hard to find out all she could to do the best job possible for my horse. She made numerous calls to other therapists and read everything available to her. She was told by La Nora Moore, Certified Acuscope/Myopulse Therapist and trainer in Louisiana, ‘Myopulse, myopulse, myopulse’ for a bowed tendon. La Nora works on many horses at Louisiana Downs Race Track with bowed tendons and has been very successful. Nancy started a 30-day treatment program, followed by another 30-day lay up. His follow-up conditioning program included one hour of hand walking every day for 30 days, then another 30 days of “legging him up.” The wonderful thing was that we were back roping off of him within four short months of his first treatment, which was almost half the time my vet said it would take for him to heal. We brought him back easy and now (five months later) he is sound and strong as ever.
Jack is to the left (behind the calf) and Jake is to the right
Jack: Lameness (Owners — Art & Lori Parker, Team Ropers) back to top
Jack would come up lame after we would rope. It was difficult to determine where the lameness was because he would point different feet. In addition to his lameness, his coat was thick and curly from the fetlock to the coronary band. I took him to my veterinarian and after several tests, we were unable to pinpoint the problem.
Steve and Denise Strand gave us a gift certificate for an Acuscope evaluation. Jack’s readings on all four feet read 000. This meant he had lots of resistance and pain in those areas. Nancy treated him for 13 days. When he came home, she told me to start trotting him out a little each day. I told her if I did, he would be lame again. She assured me this would not happen.
One day, we went for a trail ride and Jack walked so slow, I couldn’t believe it. I called Nancy and told her that Jack was usually at the front on a trail ride. She said that was because he had been in pain and wanted to go home. Now he felt good and was in no big hurry. I continued to trot Jack out as Nancy requested. At my next team roping event, Jack did great! We won first place, a new saddle and money! And the best part was that Jack did not point his feet. And his coat, the following season, from the fetlocks down, grew straight.
Misty: Bowed tendon (Owner: Lauren Nethery) back to top
Misty bowed her tendon in a riding clinic. My vet diagnosed the condition, and told me the first thing we needed to do was lessen the inflammation. We went to work on her bow with ice packs, painting on a DMSO+medication, wraps and of course, no work. After some of the swelling went down, my vet wanted to go to a blistering agent, to bring heat to the area and increase healing. I went as far as to purchase the blistering product, but wasn’t looking forward to using it. I had treated a horse before for a bow and blistering makes them sore and unhappy. I wondered if there was another way to stimulate healing in the area without having to put her, and me, through that. I called Nancy and talked with her about the Acuscope/Myopulse therapy. She said she had been treating horses with bowed tendons, as had many other therapists around the country, and that it worked very well. While Misty wasn’t lame, her bow was still very visible and she certainly couldn’t handle any work. We started her treatments immediately and I noticed she really enjoyed them, closing her eyes and falling asleep during the sessions. In less than ten days, the visible swelling was virtually gone! We continued her treatments per Nancy’s schedule, and with my vet’s approval, and within two months, she was looking really good. I rested her for another month and started her walking after that. Right now, she is in reconditioning training using round penning and light riding and doing just great. The condition resolved itself in less than half the time expected. Electro-Acuscope/ Myopulse Therapy really does speed healing, and with no pain or discomfort to the horse. I am glad Nancy lives in my area so I can use her again, should the need arise.
Hunk: Painful shoulder, lame on the left front (Owner — Lorna Burke) back to top
Hunk was turned out into an arena for exercise. When I went to put him up, he was lame on his left fore.
I loaded him up and drove to Chino Equine Hospital. After x-rays, blocking and other tests, veterinarians were unable to locate the reason for his lameness. I was instructed to take him home and lay him up for 30 days and come back for a re-check. Basically, the vet gave him a clean bill of health and couldn’t find anything wrong with him.
30 days later, he was still lame and the x-rays were clean. I was told that at the track a dye test was available which might help, but I was unable to afford it.
I began trying various forms of alternative therapy trying to find something that would work on Hunk’s left fore. Two years had gone by since his original injury with no improvement. In fact, he had gotten worse. His left fore was smaller than his other feet. He didn’t like me working on his left side at all and he was still lame.
When Nancy Hall told me about her Acuscope/Myopulse therapy, curiosity got the best of me and I decided to give it a try. During the evaluation, Hunk was swishing his tail in Nancy’s face, making faces and kicking towards her as if to say – “stay away from me”.
Upon palpitation Nancy found the worse area to be the left shoulder and left pectoral muscle under the elbow. Because Hunk was “threatening” Nancy blind folded him so she could approach him with treatments without him setting himself up. Within 30 seconds of treatment his whole body relaxed and we took the blindfold off. His head sunk down, eyes closed and lower lip inches away from his mouth.
Hunk looked forward to Nancy’s arrival every other day and he would wait at the gate in the morning for her. If she would skip a day, he got mad. (The only other times he waited at the gate was when he was going to a show, which he loved.) I could tell the treatments felt so good to him by the look in his eyes and the expression on his face. They really made a difference. He went from a nasty, mean “don’t touch me” to “oh boy, here she comes.” She continued treatments for two months and, by that time, he was doing fine. I followed his treatments with an additional month of hand walking and eventually light work, including lunging and riding walk/trot (he was green broke). I did take him to a halter show after his treatments and he took two 1st places and three 2nds. I guess that was his test and he passed with flying colors. I didn’t believe in this therapy before because I was not knowledgeable about it but the more I saw and the more I watched my animal, I totally believe! I have referred a lot of people to Nancy, people that didn’t know what was wrong with their horses and who weren’t seeing improvement through traditional medical interventions. I highly recommend it to people who have tried to help and just aren’t getting positive results.
Maybe Later: lameness in left hip (Owner: T.A. Franklin) back to top
I was first introduced to Nancy after a very frustrating two months of attempting to determine what was wrong with my horse. I had just purchased this big beautiful Arab / Trakaner, 6 months prior, when suddenly he got himself cast in his stall and was injured. He was showing what appeared to be lameness in his left hip, but we couldn’t be sure. My vet had ultrasounded his hind leg but was unable to find the actual location of the injury. It was thought it might be a high suspensory. My vet suggested I lay up my horse for a few months. After five months, I became quite frustrated that my horse was still lame and then, someone at the barn mentioned Nancy Hall and this machine she had that was supposed to perform miracles. It was told that she could heal bowed tendons, cure suspensory problems and I think they mentioned something about her “walking on water”…
So after much deliberation, I called her. She was wonderful. She explained to me what she was doing every step of the way. She described how the machine worked and what to expect from the “treatments” as time went on. My horse, “Maybe Later” began to whinny every-time he saw her truck drive up, and I watched him do a back kick during one treatment that would make most ballerinas envious. That moment brought me to tears to imagine what pain this big beautiful creature must have been enduring. The biofeedback on the Acuscope helped Nancy to determine that the actual injury was where the suspensory tied in between the sesamoid bones behind the fetlock. Nancy started treating “Maybe Later” daily and then rotated out as the tissue improved.
Well, “Maybe Later” is all-better now and we are planning to enter him in his first dressage show very soon. I just want to say Thank You to Nancy for her commitment, dedication and the ability to help me keep hope alive during a very “trying time for me and my horse”. I am a “true believer” of this Electro-Acuscope / Myopulse Therapy. I can say with confidence that it helped my horse both during his lay-up and immediately after when he received his follow up treatments.+