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boon
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| Hi! I am looking for opinions from fellow can chasers :) I am contemplating buying a theraplate and traveling to shows and setting it up in my barn for use as well as traveling to other barns if needed. I am interested in the feedback of theraplate users and small business entrepreneurs as to if this is something many would use if available to them. I also am looking into purchasing the tens unit blanket as well. Any feedback would be appreciated! Thank you! |
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Location: West Texas | Have you looked into Equivibe? (they are one of our sponsors) Both products are pretty similar. We felt the vertical vibration was more beneficial. We use ours daily and really like it. I don't know about every claim these products make, but for warm up and preventing and treating athletic horses, it definitely works. You will also enjoy it too. We have the two piece unit and that sure helps loading it for on the road. My experience is that you will do well, especially at shows. It will help the horses run better.
http://equivibe.com/
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Location: Bigfoot Country | Yes, Equivibe. What she said ^^^
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Good Ole Boys just Fine with Me
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Location: SE Missouri | I love my Theraplate. The service from the company, the information provided, and of course the results. However, I have rented mine out numerous times. I think it will be tough depending on your market to make it pencil out as a sole business plan. It will be a fine line between covering your expenses (and time), making a profit, and having it affordable.
Nothing bad to say about the product at all, in fact one of my favorite investments!
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | save your money and use it at the vet doing maintance.
The vibe therapy is as hokey as Cur-ost |
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| 1DSoon - 2016-10-20 6:58 PM
save your money and use it at the vet doing maintance.
The vibe therapy is as hokey as Cur-ost
I thought so too, until I had multiple good results from it with different horses.. |
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| veintiocho - 2016-10-21 6:29 AM
1DSoon - 2016-10-20 6:58 PM
save your money and use it at the vet doing maintance.
The vibe therapy is as hokey as Cur-ost
I thought so too, until I had multiple good results from it with different horses..
I didn't think I would ever say this, but I agree with 1D soon. Save your money. If your wanting something that works and will help
your horse, look into the respond laser. I have a Centurian blanket that works also. |
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Location: Texas | I bought a Theraplate for my horse with extremely thin soles and that never grew much hoof in hopes of growing hoof & sole. This is one of the marketing phrases they say the Theraplate will do. I put him on it 5-6 days per week, TWICE per day for 20 minutes morning & afternoon, for a YEAR. Got absolutely ZERO results! Very disappointed. I put my other horse on it as well, same twice per day schedule... nothing! And even though it comes in two pieces, each piece is still extremely heavy. I had considered doing what you are considering to help offset some of the cost. But it was just too cumbersome for me to try to haul around. This was just my experience. Good luck if you decide to give it a try.
(And as to the Curost comment: I have had FABULOUS, undeniable results with the products for my allergy horse.)
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | 1DSoon - 2016-10-20 6:58 PM save your money and use it at the vet doing maintance.
The vibe therapy is as hokey as Cur-ost
Disagree. I didn't see much of a difference with the Theraplate but Cur-Ost worked miracles for me and my horse. |
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| To those having great luck with Cur-OST relating to allergies/respiratory, which do you use? Thank you! |
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| barrelracer66023 - 2016-10-21 12:59 PM
To those having great luck with Cur-OST relating to allergies/respiratory, which do you use? Thank you!
Total Support is the only formula with the Allergy component |
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Location: Where Governor's make the liscense plates | TBone - 2016-10-21 8:17 AM
I bought a Theraplate for my horse with extremely thin soles and that never grew much hoof in hopes of growing hoof & sole. This is one of the marketing phrases they say the Theraplate will do. I put him on it 5-6 days per week, TWICE per day for 20 minutes morning & afternoon, for a YEAR. Got absolutely ZERO results! Very disappointed. I put my other horse on it as well, same twice per day schedule... nothing! And even though it comes in two pieces, each piece is still extremely heavy. I had considered doing what you are considering to help offset some of the cost. But it was just too cumbersome for me to try to haul around. This was just my experience. Good luck if you decide to give it a try.
(And as to the Curost comment: I have had FABULOUS, undeniable results with the products for my allergy horse.)
I had a similar situation happen- I bought the theraplate for soreness and overall body improvement. 1. My horse hated it. No matter how many times he got on it, he could never relax enough to stay there or eat.
2. It's expensive, I didn't see any positive results from using it and for the money I spent I wasn't pleased.
3. Buy the time I had tried using it for a year- I remembered it was sold with a money back guarantee. Haha that was a joke. You only have 90 days or maybe 6 months but whenever I told them hey my horse dislikes this and I'm not seeing improvement they wanted me to give it more time.
4. It took me a good 3 years to sell than darn thing and I sold it for practically crackers.
We did use it for friends horses when they were lame for a few days but they also had been given bute so I turkey can't say they felt better from the plate.
I would suggest you find a used one for sale then see if you want to make it a small business. |
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Location: Texas | Yep, I had the same issue. 90 day money back guarantee, but they want you to use it a lot longer to see results. I ended up trading mine + cash for a three year old prospect that kept bucking me off, seriously injuring me, and that I ended up selling at a drastic loss. It was a not win deal for me!  |
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Miss Southern Sunshine
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Location: South Central Florida | There were 5 purchased in the area with in a 75 mile radious of my home and where we ride. Four of them have been sold. The one that still has hers does excellent Chiropractic work and uses it in conjunction with her work. The others found them too cumbersom, not enough clients and little to no benefit used alone.
I don't like to over sell or put down products, and I get looked at funny when I say I don't really trust the benefits. In every other acspect of equine care (and people care) we generally try to lessen the effects of vibration. In heavy equipment they spend millions of dollars trying to reduce the vibration for the operator because of possible negative effects of the vibration to joints and organs. We put floating floors in our trailers and cussion the floors to REDUCE vibration.
One salesman told me "the difference in our product is we use frequencies, not just vibration" but that's what vibration is. Everything vibrates at a frequency. Is it possible to help heal with a certain frequency? Probably, but how to determine that particular frequency is not something I think an average user could possibly determine.
Personally I think there may be a place for them, but with more qualified care and in conjunction with the right support.
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Swannranch - 2016-10-21 4:16 PM There were 5 purchased in the area with in a 75 mile radious of my home and where we ride. Four of them have been sold. The one that still has hers does excellent Chiropractic work and uses it in conjunction with her work. The others found them too cumbersom, not enough clients and little to no benefit used alone.
I don't like to over sell or put down products, and I get looked at funny when I say I don't really trust the benefits. In every other acspect of equine care (and people care) we generally try to lessen the effects of vibration. In heavy equipment they spend millions of dollars trying to reduce the vibration for the operator because of possible negative effects of the vibration to joints and organs. We put floating floors in our trailers and cussion the floors to REDUCE vibration.
One salesman told me "the difference in our product is we use frequencies, not just vibration" but that's what vibration is. Everything vibrates at a frequency. Is it possible to help heal with a certain frequency? Probably, but how to determine that particular frequency is not something I think an average user could possibly determine.
Personally I think there may be a place for them, but with more qualified care and in conjunction with the right support.
PREACH!
I'll bet you could buy 2 different forms of therapy that would have greater results for the price of one of those "shakers"
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Location: West Texas | vibration therapy has been around awhile and the therapeutic results are undeniable. I can tell you for a fact they work. You can stand on them yourself and feel the benefits. If you really know horses and are using them in heavy training, you can sure tell the level of comfort it provides. They are more free moving, are less resistant, and stop harder. I have back soreness issues, vibration therapy helps that. Horses get body sore, and vibration helps this. Relieving tension, loosening muscles, and increasing blood flow is pretty common sense.
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | Seems to me a lot of Theraplate owners end up selling them.
I don't think they are worth it. If they provide some relief, and that is questionable, I'm betting it's short term. I doubt they have a demonstrable effect on performance. Our sleep number bed feels good sometimes when I go to bed. It shuts off automatically after a few minutes. I'm just as stiff as always the next morning. I think the vibration mesmerizes more than anything. |
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Location: South MS | I have an Equivibe. I've had it for just over a year now. I can tell a difference in my horse for helping body soreness, as a warm up tool, and as a cool down tool. She had cut her back leg pretty seriously and I think putting her on the equivibe sped up the healing - you can only see a small scar now. With that said, she was on it twice a day for 30 minutes each time for two solid weeks - really wish I had taken before and after pics. She's normally on it for 30 minutes @ 3 times a week and before hauling to a show. It is "short term" and I can tell you that it works SHORT TERM because I've used it - I have scoliosis, spinal stenosis, and some pretty big bone spurs - and when I get off it, I will feel REALLY good for about twenty minutes or so - where, otherwise, I'm always in pain and have had to pretty much give up riding.
It's not a quick fix and it's not a miracle piece of equipment. To see any benefits, you have to use it very often. It's one of many tools to keep our horses comfortable - I also use massage, chiro, and accupuncture.
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I have seen the Theraplates and was not impress with them and the cost is crazy on them. When my horse get hurt I just use the old fashion way of healing them, Me, I do lots of hand walking and the care they need and mother nature..I'm a very hands on type.I rather warm my horses up and cool them down the old fashion way too. 
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boon
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| Thank you all so much for the comments! I need to do some more research it looks like :) |
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boon
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| Thank you so much! |
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Location: SW MO | Tdove - 2016-10-21 8:23 PM
vibration therapy has been around awhile and the therapeutic results are undeniable. I can tell you for a fact they work. You can stand on them yourself and feel the benefits. If you really know horses and are using them in heavy training, you can sure tell the level of comfort it provides. They are more free moving, are less resistant, and stop harder. I have back soreness issues, vibration therapy helps that. Horses get body sore, and vibration helps this. Relieving tension, loosening muscles, and increasing blood flow is pretty common sense.
Yes a lot of owners sell them; however I can tell you when I was an intern with one of the larger futurity trainers saddling and feeding 20+ a day with a ruptured disk in my back, standing on the theraplate was the only thing keeping me going before my surgery. My horses have always enjoyed it. I thought about buying the pony plate to put in my garage for my personal use. |
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