"Caroline Lindsay has been working with my young showjumper, Sam. We successfully competed at the Tattersalls National Showjumping Championships when he was six. Sam is now successfully competing at a height of 1.4m."
ANTONIA De BURGH ShowjumpingIreland
"Caroline Lindsay has done so much for Freyja and I, even after others advised me to sell her because she was so difficult to get started as a young horse"
HELEN RANDALL
BE Pre-Novice
"Major was rehabilitated by Caroline Lindsay when his gait was restricted after he had a hard fall on the hunting field. He is now living life to the full and loves a good gallop on the beach!"
TERI TAYLOR
"I truly believe in Caroline Lindsay and her hands-on techniques for my young horses right from the start of their careers to help them achieve their full potential"
"Caroline has worked wonders for Dodge. It’s been an amazing experience
watching her at work and also using the exercises she has taught me to do to
help him recover from spinal injury after I found him paralysed from chasing
a tennis ball. Very good indeed."
TREVOR CHAMBERLAIN
Biggleswade, Hertfordshire
"I really enjoyed spending days out with you and always learned so much!
I do believe that my gaining a merit has a lot to do with your teaching – so
thank you!"
VETERINARY PHYSIOTHERAPY STUDENT
"Working alongside Caroline Lindsay has been a very rewarding experience as she has helped us no end with both horses, achieving the impossible of rehabilitating one of our horses who we were told would never compete again! We could not manage without her!"
EMMA LASKEY BE Intermediate rider.
ABOUT CAROLINE LINDSAY
Caroline Lindsay is a graduate
Human Sports Therapist and Veterinary Physiotherapist based in
Hertfordshire, England, with a special interest in exercise
prescription as a major contributor to success of the rehabilitation
process. Caroline not only treats humans, horses and dogs but she is
a qualified Veterinary Physiotherapy trainer and student mentor. She
has thirteen years' experience in practice and is a full member of the
Institute of Registered Veterinary and Animal Physiotherapists. Click
here for Caroline Lindsay's Qualifications: Caroline Lindsay’s Qualifications
Caroline Lindsay coaches Rebecca Sweetlove and Linby to develop his self carriage with progressive suppling over ground poles. Using poles rather than relying on the riders aids to produce bend, the horse is more relaxed, calm and focused and learns much sooner how to work over his back and through his topline muscles.
Caroline Lindsay invites enquiries from Universities and Colleges in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales requiring Freelance/Visiting Lecturing and Practical Sessions on Applied Clinical & Remedial Equine and Canine Exercise Prescription, Formulation of Treatment Goals and Manual Soft Tissue Mobilisation Therapies & Techniques as well as Student Mentoring.
Caroline also accepts requests from horse and dog owners for veterinary physiotherapy consultations, second opinions, gait analysis and performance enhancement programmes.
Caroline Lindsay demonstrates the veterinary physiotherapy techniques she used to rehabilitate a canine acute spinal injury in a labrador dog. Therapy techniques were electro therapy (pulsed magnetic field therapy, red photo therapy (LASER), neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES), remedial massage, myofascial release techniques, soft tissue manipulation and vertebral mobilisation. Progressive remedial exercise is also demonstrated.
Recognising that owners of horses and dogs with both clinical and sub-clinical conditions required niche comfort products and professional advice, Caroline set up HappyTack.co.uk in 2007 - an online store which stocks only comfort, functional, well-being and therapy products for horses, dogs and horse riders.
A 7.5 minute clip from www.PERFECTMOVEMENTSOLUTIONS.com, performance enhancing veterinary physiotherapy, showing the rehabilitation of an 8 month old warmblood foal which had trapped a hind hoof in the stable partition and had been found lying prone on the ground unable to escape. After being rescued by the fire brigade and vet, veterinary physiotherapist, Caroline Lindsay, was asked to correct the residual gait abnormality. The difficulty with rehabilitating foals is that they are too immature to participate in the full spectrum of remedial work required. On the plus side, they mature fast and the plasticity of their body tissue means that recovery from injury can be dramatic. This film covers the first 2 sessions where the foal's gait was analysed, together with the simple yet effective remedial exercise performed over groundpoles for a couple of minutes daily and combined with manual and electrotherapy techniques of myofascial technique and phototherapy/LASER on trigger points. This film shows what is possible with low intensity dynamic suppling when options are limited
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