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| We had my horse adjusted yesterday by a guy that came highly recommended. Today my horse is sore everywhere, I can barely touch his neck without him tensing up and trying to jerk away. I have never had this happen when anyone else has worked on him, but I myself have been very sore after a chiropractic adjustment so I am not sure if I should be alarmed by this or not... He seems perfectly happy out in the field and was running around with the other horses. The guy had wanted me to do a bunch of stretches with him, but he is just so uncomfortable. Anyone ever have this? |
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 Own It and Move On
 
Location: The edge of no where | One time - it was a bad bad deal. This joker came highly recommended by a lot of people. He really hurt my horse.
I wouldn't give a flip who recommended the chiro - your horse shouldn't be sore. |
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Location: Kansas | I had a lady completely ruin my gelding after "working" on him......like to the point he wouldn't turn left, and had ongoing issues with it afterwards. I finally took him to a good chiropractor who did wonders to him. I'm leery on who I use now. |
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| I had him seen at my Vet's office as our vet wanted to meet this guy as well as he works on the horses at a huge stable down the road. Would you call the vet and let them know about this? |
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| I would definitely call the vet to at least "consult" about your experience. You may need him to get your horse straightened back out.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I have had great luck with my chiro. My mare always works her best after being adjusted. In saying that, I recommended her to a neighbor who had her work on their old mare. She came up dead lame and sore all over. They had the vet out who said that the chiro seemed to have aggravated "dormant" arthritis. The mare healed but it took several months. Highly recommended or not... Maybe some times certain horses don't react well with certain manipulations. |
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| ~BINGO~ - 2016-05-06 10:35 AM
I have had great luck with my chiro. My mare always works her best after being adjusted. In saying that, I recommended her to a neighbor who had her work on their old mare. She came up dead lame and sore all over. They had the vet out who said that the chiro seemed to have aggravated "dormant" arthritis. The mare healed but it took several months. Highly recommended or not... Maybe some times certain horses don't react well with certain manipulations.
That's a really good point. |
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Own It and Move On
Location: The edge of no where | Buckles - 2016-05-06 10:11 AM I had him seen at my Vet's office as our vet wanted to meet this guy as well as he works on the horses at a huge stable down the road. Would you call the vet and let them know about this?
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Coming from my own personal experience with a my chiro a few years ago, I was ready to quit going about the 3rd day...the first 2 weeks I had to be seen everyday for small adjustments. I hurt so bad the 2nd day I cried getting ready for work, my hips and lower back hurt so bad. The 3rd day I had to skip my workout routine. The 4th day when I went to the Chiro I mentioned it to him and he asked "so have you taken any Ibuprofen or Aleve or anything?" No I hadn't because in my mind I was getting "fixed" and no longer needed it, he laughed and said "So when your horse is sore after a hard run or workout, do you do something for him? Of course. Treat yourself as good as you treat your horse..."
You might need to give him a little bute, he might have been so out of whack he is sore from the adjustment if they had to get deep into him, also the stretches afterward really help hold those adjustments and keep the muscles from pulling him back out of adjustment. |
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Location: Canada | I'd have him seen by a vet or at the very least a consult. Where I live you have to be a vet to be a chiropractor but there are body workers croping up everywhere. I keep hearing of horses that have been "adjusted" and the body worker has totally ruined the horse. In a couple of instances the horse had to be put down.
I would just call the vet and get a consult just to be sure. |
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| So I just got off the phone with the vet. She said she was not at all surprised he was sore from how long hes been "off" and said the chiropractor really should have told me (although surprised she didn't say anything either). Said it was the release of lactic acid in his muscles. She wanted me to give him a couple grams a bute and then go back out in an hour and try the stretches again on him that the chiro had showed me. Also try to keep him moving around as much as possible, which shouldn't be a problem as hes turned out 24/7. Also to give him some salt in his feed to try to get him to drink as much as possible. |
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Location: cincinnati, oh | I cannot say this enough times, do your research before you let anyone perform a chiropractic manipulation on your horse. Make sure they are licensed and/or certified in your state. These dime store chiro's are popping up all over the place that claim they are trained because they took a class one weekend or one week somewhere and they have a certificate for Bob's Chiro school and now they are out cracking on animals. You cannot possibly learn enough in that short time frame to be sufficiently trained. I will probably get flamed for this but I will stand by my belief that a chiro should be trained thoroughly and licensed. The damage they can do is irreversible! |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I had one that had probably been out in a big way in his neck and shoulders for yrs, like 10 yrs. So he had his first adjustment in his late teens and he was very very sore for a few days. Then she had to do him again in a couple weeks and he was still a little sore. It made a night and day difference in how he rode, sour issues he had had forever were completely gone. But he still hates her when she shows up. Pins his ears when she walks in to help me catch another horse. Good joke around here.
edited that mine was more massage/less chiro. I myself had my neck out of whack and I felt like a million bucks after she worked on me but she warned I would be sore the next day and she was right. So I am guessing it is more massage and maybe they shouldn't be sore after just chiro?
Edited by wyoming barrel racer 2016-05-06 4:44 PM
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| skeeter7 - 2016-05-06 2:00 PM
I cannot say this enough times, do your research before you let anyone perform a chiropractic manipulation on your horse. Make sure they are licensed and/or certified in your state. These dime store chiro's are popping up all over the place that claim they are trained because they took a class one weekend or one week somewhere and they have a certificate for Bob's Chiro school and now they are out cracking on animals. You cannot possibly learn enough in that short time frame to be sufficiently trained. I will probably get flamed for this but I will stand by my belief that a chiro should be trained thoroughly and licensed. The damage they can do is irreversible!
Completely agree with you! My daughter is a licensed chiropractor. She spent 4 years at Parker on top of getting a degree in biology. There is no way some one can spend a week or weekend and be qualified to be a chiro. |
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| This wasn't someone I just called and had work on my horse without researching him first and had my vet's look into him as well. Certified in chiropractic and acupuncture and had been a vet for 30 years.
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Location: Phoenix | I guess it depends on how long it's been since he was last worked, adjusted, how "out" he was.....my horse is never sore to the point where he reacts like you are describing.
.I know that when *I* go to the chiro I will be sore, but no longer in pain. If I'm still in pain after an adjustment I no longer see that Chiro.
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