Meridian Acutherapies in Pimpama, Queensland | Acupuncturist

Meridian Acutherapies

Locality: Pimpama, Queensland

Phone: +61 497 819 401

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23.01.2022 Hippo or horse??? Etbauer Performance Horses

21.01.2022 I know we can't wait for more restrictions to be lifted, so we can enjoy a much needed beach holiday! Here (Charlie) Finch Farm Cosmique Cavall is enjoying a beautiful sunrise with his mate (Max) Agent 86 at Cabbarita Beach. Who else has great beach shots?

17.01.2022 Sometimes we get so focused on the horse, we tend to forget about how us as a rider affect the horse in so many ways!

16.01.2022 Who can relate?

14.01.2022 Sometimes giving medication can be a stressful time for everyone. Hopefully some helpful information in the article below

11.01.2022 How much weight can a horse carry? In my experience, a horse can carry an infinite amount. They can carry the weight of broken hearts, broken homes, and broken... bodies. Countless tears sometimes comb their tangled manes. Moments when parents and friends cannot be there to help and hold a person, horses embrace and empower. They carry physical, mental, and emotional handicaps. They carry hopes and dreams; and they will carry the stress from your day when you can't carry it anymore. They carry graduations, they carry new careers, they carry moves away from everything familiar, they carry marriages, they carry divorces, they carry funerals, they carry babies before they are born, and sometimes they carry the mothers who cannot carry their own baby. They carry mistakes, they carry joy, they carry the good and they carry the bad. They carry drugs and addictions, but they also carry the celebrations. They will carry you to success when all you have felt is failure. They will carry you, never knowing the weight of your burdens and triumphs. If you let them, they will carry you through life, and life is hard, life is heavy. But a horse will make you feel weightless under it all. Author unknown

10.01.2022 Weekend sharing, what did you get up to? Please share your stories, pics and sweet moments Her was have little Amberley sharing her secrets with the handsom little Dusk

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05.01.2022 LOVE this handy tool that breaks down all Feed and nutrients to ensure the best for your horse! It even calculates how much it costs you to feed each horse per day!!! I use it for Charlie (FF Cosmique Cavall) and can adjust according to what I need (weight gain etc)

03.01.2022 Fantastic prizes!

01.01.2022 This may annoy some people and I prefer to keep my page a positive example of how we can use our knowledge and skills to better help horses but occasionally my ...patience is tested and I’m ’a tad’ peeved. Sometimes, some horse owners need a wake up call. How often do you see complaints or comments by horse owners on social media regarding the hooves ‘recently shod/trimmed’.....far too often. People put up only the little bits of information they want to share, use terrible photos and leave out relevant information that the farrier/trimmer etc have advised is necessary to help your horse. So I’m going to complain about a few things on behalf of farriers, Podiatherapists, trimmers because we far too often hold our tongues and don’t comment. You know, this is a very hard industry. We work ridiculous hours, working our literal butts off helping horses day in and day out, we put ourselves at risk under animals which could seriously hurt us, we put such strain on our bodies that we have to have our own physiotherapist on speed dial to keep us mobile enough to work on your horses, we have spent tens of thousands of dollars and thousands of hours completing our chosen qualifications, we are constantly researching and undertaking CPD to stay up to date with new research & methods to best help the horses in our care. The majority of horse owners are thankful for all of our hard work. As I’m drafting this, it is 11.50pm and I’m constantly stopping to answer messages. Yes, people message & text me at all hours of the day & night although I’m usually asleep now. My longest days work out to be around 17/18 hours including the travel to and from the longer distance areas that I have agreed to go to because of the number of requests for help that I have received. Certainly not because I’ve decided that I want to branch out to other areas to get more clients, I could happily take the day off in my schedule to have a break or fill it with people requesting my help more locally to me. We have to deal with clients wanting to reschedule at the last minute because they forgot about their horse’s one regular monthly appointment, which then messes with our carefully planned schedules and routes. It is your responsibility to make a note in your calendar for your horse, it is my responsibility to make a space in my schedule for your horse if you are a client. If you can’t remember when the next appointment is, message us to check, easy. We all have these handy little calendars on our phones. You have to put one recurring appointment in it to remember, I on the other hand have to put hundreds of horses in my calendar and send messages out to every single owner every day reminding them that their horse is due for its trim and I give them a 30 min window of time that I will arrive. I am rarely late, I run a pretty tight and organised schedule. There are far too many horses out there with poor hooves. Stop accepting this as normal. Ask for better or do better on behalf of your horse. Most horse owners understand that one of the major and unavoidable requirements/expenses of horse ownership is regular hoof care. You buy a horse, it’s part of their deal. Human intervention means our domesticated horses are rarely able to self trim their hooves. You can’t get away from it. I work on a lot of horses with very poor hooves most of which I do not show on my page. I do my darnedest and go above and beyond to help the horse and their owners without judgement. If you need help and I can fit you in, I will. But I will also let you know if I believe that the horse is unfortunately beyond help after assessment & viewing radiographs etc and I have sadly had to do that. Sometimes we have to walk away. It’s not at all easy but a suffering horse is just cruel and selfish of us as their caregivers. Rehabilitive/corrective work is like a tough endurance event. Yet we are often expected to magically and quickly fix hooves that have been left lacking hoof care or have perhaps had incorrect hoof care for some time. You as the owner have to be on board, following advice which may include very strict diet requirements such as in the case of laminitic horses/ponies, regular treatment for chronic bacteria and trim cycles shorter than you are used to. These are all for very good reasons. To best help your horse. Sometimes it may cost you more than a usual trim and so it should as we often have to allocate longer appointment times to be able to deal with the issues presented to us. Your horse may also be difficult to deal with, as is often the case when the horse is very sore and doesn’t want to weight bear and/or may have boney changes that are painful when having to lift the leg etc. Sometimes you may need to pay for Veterinary assistance to provide radiographs or maybe sedate your horse so they can be worked on safely. Don’t compare the cost of what we have to do to the previous hoof care provider, especially if in fact the horse did have a recent one because often we are not told the truth of the situation when we first agree to work on a horse. Have you listened to the previous hcp’s advice and plan for your horse and followed such advice? Don’t compare what we are doing to your horse’s hooves to the previous hcp (assuming there was a recent one) who was unable to address issues. We can tell whether your horse has recently been worked on or not and also have an idea as to how long ago the horse was shod. I cannot count the number of times I have heard the statement my previous hcp never told me my horse had thrush, when the horse’s frogs are obviously chronically suffering. We can tell the difference between fresh active thrush and long term chronic thrush. We can also often tell who are going to be clients that will follow advice or who only be with us for a short period of time. Nevertheless we do our best for the horses whilst we have agreed to work on them. If your horse needs help but you are not prepared for the hard work, time involved or my requirements, I’m probably not the right hcp for you. The horse’s best interests are always at the forefront for me as they should be you. I’ll leave this photo here as an example of the changes that can start to occur fairly quickly with a shortened trimming cycle when a hoof care provider is working hard to improve your horse’s severely damaged hooves. This was only 3 trims at 4 week cycles at my regular trimming price despite the longer time it took to trim this uncomfortable horse as I felt bad for the horse. Interesting comment at the first trim of this horse when I was asked to help at a property when I was there to trim a long-term client’s horse, because she had lost a shoe. I suggested she contact her farrier to come and re-shoe the horse ASAP As I was now on my way to other clients who already had appointments with me and I don’t like being late, but they pushed and asked if I could just do it whilst I was here anyway. When the horse was brought over to me, I advised the owner how seriously in need of care this horse was for her hooves and limbs, my trimming price and schedule for the area. I was advised but the farrier only charged $70 to shoe her and did them on a .... week cycle. Dignified restraint stopped me from commenting on this statement and continuing to trim the horse otherwise I would’ve just put that hoof down, packed up my tools and walked away. Then and there I knew that this horse was not going to continue with me for very long, if at all to the next appointment because is the healthcare of this horse a priority, no. Pay close attention to the new hoof wall angle coming down compared to the old damage growing out. Also have a look at the uncomfortable angle of the lower distal limb and the improvement. Ideally trims for this type of hoof capsule damage should initially be at 2-3 weeks to keep pulling back the damaged hoof wall which is tearing excessively forward due to the hoof capsule distortion. I treated these hooves at the trims, as I knew that was all she received, one thorough treatment every 4 weeks. The owner wanted to double the trim cycle and I have refused. It is not in the best interest of the horse, nor do I do any horses on 8 week cycles as that is far too long. This horse has a long way to go to get to heathy hooves. So the horse will now be hoping someone else will continue to rehabilitate and improve her seriously damaged hooves and I genuinely hope someone does. It’s all about the horse. Dealing with horses is actually the easiest part of our job. #drequine #equinepodiotherapist #equinepodiotherapy #barefoothorse #hoofrehab #hoofrehabilitation #hoofrehabspecialist #hooves #equinelimbs #hoovesandlimbs #hoofhealer #hoofspray #flybugsprayforhorses #equine #horses #horsebootfitter #horseboots #laminitis #equinelaminitis #glueu #hoofcast #glueonhorseshoes #eponashoes #equestrian #easyshoeperformance #seedytoe #rainscald #greasyheel #hoofabscess

01.01.2022 It’s time for me to share with you my journey and what I’m doing. My name is Helene, I’m originally from France where I dedicated my life for the horses. I star...ted riding when I was 7 and never stopped since. From 7 to 20, I rode in the same horse Center where I passed all my horse riding certificates until the highest attainable level. During this time, I started to learn about horsemanship, how to develop a relationship with the horse, how to understand him properly. At the age of 20, I decided to become a coach. After 1 year of course qualification, I have been accredited Coach level 2 general riding. From then, I worked a few years as a general coach in the same horse Center and decided to move onto Paris, for dressage improvement . It was great to start with but I quickly realised that the horses were not happy. With my knowledges I had from my studies and love for the horses, I could see that the horses were suffering from a massive misunderstanding of their needs. If a horse is not good, I’m not good either and as hard as it was to not be able to help them, I had to move to find an other place to go. My horse and myself couldn’t stay there any longer! Finding the right place would not be easy but an opportunity opened its doors and I had to take the chance. A groom job for a dressage and horsemanship trainer and rider. A wonderful lady and a wonderful friendship is born. She accepted to spend time to teach me, to help me to develop my skills and feelings, then we started to work the horses together. After a year of work with her, I wanted to go to the international school of horsemanship in France called La Cense, to have my certificates and degrees needed to work as an horsemanship coach and trainer. I met at La cense school, an extraordinary couple, which I already was following closely in my work with the horses. A couple extremely passionate about the mental wellbeing of the horses, rich in knowledges and wonderful teachers, Andy and Catherine Booth. A few months after the end of the school, I left my country to go out of my comfort zone, where we don’t talk the same language, where I won’t ride some dressage horse, but where I will learn about myself, about horses, about different technique approach and about how to start a horse in the respect of the animal. I move to Australia, where I was supposed to do a 9 months clinic well I’m still here 7 years later!! I worked for Steve and Claire Byrnes for about a year. I discovered cutting and all different sport you can do with a horse and cow, mustering and more importantly, English language! Thanks to my awesome friend Claire Byrnes and my very patient English teacher, who is now my husband, I’m good with it now but it has been my hardest work ever! By watching Steve working with the young horses, I learn a lot of different way to do with them and even if the language was a bit of a problem at this stage, Steve and I find the way to communicate together. He trusted me with my work on horses, leave me work on his own ones and I started to feel more confident to start a horse by myself. Life event around the corner, wedding and kids, had to put my horse life on a side for a bit to raise my 2 beautiful kids. I discovered 3 years ago the power of acupuncture and acupressure on my husband. I wanted to learn more about it so I started to search, read and learn, and more I was getting into it, more I loved it. If it works on human, there is not reason than it can’t work on horses. Still with my passion of listening the horse I’ve done last year an equine acupuncture course and I’m now qualified as an equine acupuncture therapist. It’s amazing to see the power of the Traditional Chinese Medicine and to see how unbelievable the living body is. A different way to see and understand the body’s functions, a different way to connect with horse, a different way to read the horse, and a different way to understand reactions and behaviours are all the new abilities I’m developing since a year now. Working with horses body and mind, be able to feel the soreness, see and feel the treatment working, hear or see the body back in place or shape, see the horse improving every session, see a good changing behaviour, are all the thing that I love about my job. I believe that you will always do a great job if you love what you do! And I love helping horses in needed! My ambitions doesn’t stop here, I have a new project in working process. I love helping horses but I also love helping people to understand their horse’s needs, so why not combine both? See more