Equine Acupressure, a Working Manual

by Carla Stroh, Marie K. Soderberg, Nancy Zidonis, et al.

Book Overview

This user-friendly guide to acupressure is filled with easy to follow photographs, charts and illustrations. The acupressure meridian system, acupoints and treatment plans are explained in detail... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096459823X
• ISBN13: 9780964598232
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Tallgrass Publishers
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Resource

This book was a required purchase for a recent home practitioners course in equine Acupressure and Photonic Acupoint Therapy. I find that I am using and refering to charts from this book several times a week. It is a fantastic resource that is easy to read, easy to understands and is very helpful. After major bodywork on a horse recently I showed the book to our equine physiotherapist while we were working out the horse's treatment plan until his next visit to the horse and he thoroughly approved of my proposed treatment plan according to the charts in the book. Not just an endorsement of the quality of the information from myself and the lecturers, but also from our own equine physiotherapist.

This is a keeper!

I purchased the book and the video tape. It is truly an excellent reference manual and I believe is a good basis start with. It's easy to understand and you can go out and start doing it. It's nice how the book has different ailments broken down so you can refer to a specific problem without wading through a bunch of text. My horses love it and I love doing it for them.

I love this book!

.. . .And I wasn't expecting to! As a Clinical Massage Therapist, I perform accupressure every day, but I've always had a big fat Western Health Care Provider mental block about this sort of thing.The authors have made me a believer! Great visuals, expertly written text and basic explanations of what you're doing (aside from unsubstantiated empirical evidence) make this a book to keep! I absolutely could not put it down until I had devoured it!I strongly recomend this book!

An excellent manual on acupressure for your horse!

This is a great book. I bought it about three days before I witnessed a registered acupuncturist performing acupressure on a number of horses at the barn where I board. He did exactly the same things this book demonstrates. I am a Reiki Master/Teacher, and this book fits right in with what I know about energy work and the use of Chi to heal. The book is divided into seven chapters. The first covers Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), using the Five-Element theory, on which this approach is based. It explains things thoroughly, and allows you a basic understanding of what you can do with acupressure with your horse. There are many charts which illustrate the basic meridian systems in the horse in much detail, showing all the various points and discussing their functions and applications. The authors walk you through a treatment, from start to finish, including pre-treatment and post-treatment guides, as well as a complete section on equine stretches. There is also a treatment log book to keep for your horse, and a whole large section on specific treatments for specific conditions. The authors also teach this system in seminars across the US, and can be scheduled to come give a clinic in your area if you get enough horse owners together to afford it. All in all this is a fabulous book, one which I am finding fascinating to read and to put into practical application with my horse. It requires concentration to read, due to the fact that it contains much information, but it's laid out in an open and straightforward manner so that it's easy to understand. If you love your horse (who doesn't?) and want to help take responsibility for his/her health, don't hesitate to buy this book!

A thorough review of acupressure

My husband bought me this book and I read it in one day! It is wonderful and includes a lot of information on the theory behind it as well as the diagrams to back it up. If you're looking for an interactive way to improve the health of your horse, this book is for you!