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Limited Edition 

Equestrian 

INTERVIEWS 

How to minimize 

INFLAMMATION 

Mclain Ward, Richard 

Parker, Mikala Gundersen, 

Quentin Judge, Dr. Barry 

Eisaman, Amy Bock, Dr. Tim 

Ober and more! 

The 

CYTOWAVE 

Issue 

Everything you wanted 

to know about Cytowave 

but were afraid to ask!

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McLain Ward 

One of the Worlds top competitors 

discusses his use of Cytowave 

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Equine Medical Devices 

What does it take to develop a cutting 

edge equine medical therapy device? 

Darcy LaPier 

14 Competitive barrel-racer talks about 22 

competition, therapy and life. 

INFLAMMATION 

16 The equine industrie’s best kep secret to 26 

rapidly reduce inflammation. 

Quentin Judge 

A top competitor shares his thoughts 

on technology. 

Mikala Gundersen 

An interview with a top dressage 

competitor. 

February - March 2017 

4CONTENTS

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CPL is no longer a Death Sentence. 

CPL is the bane of many horses. Now there is hope for treating this 

once fatal disease. 

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Amy Bock 

Competitor, trainer, attorney - 

and you thought you had a busy 

life. 

Barry Eisaman, DVM 

A man of few words has a lot to 

say about Cytowave. 

RICHARD PARKER 

An interview with the inventor of 

Cytowave and his plans for the 

future of healthcare. 

The Long Road Back 

How Heather Owchar brought 

her horse back from the brink. 

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PETER PLETCHER 

discusses his use of Cytowave 

and what it has meant professionally 

to him. 

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MCLAINWARD 

“CONTROL INFLAMMATION AND 

YOU PREVENT INJURIES.” 

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TECHNOLOGY 

YOU EITHER EM- 

BRACE IT OR YOU 

DON’T, AND MCLAIN 

WARD HAS 

ALWAYS EMBRACED 

CUTTING EDGE 

THERAPIES. WHICH 

IS WHY HE’S A CY- 

TOWAVE USER. 

McLain Ward is a competitor and an athlete. 

He understands the workouts he puts his 

horses through and he knows that they get 

every bit as sore as humans do. He was looking 

for something more. 

He bagan using Cytowave and was impressed 

by how good his horses felt after being 

treated. “To feel the horses, how much 

looser and warmed up they were, was important. 

We knew Cytowave was doing something.” 

The key to preventing injuries was to 

deal with inflammation right up front. Before 

and after workouts. His horses were treated 

for 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after. 

“We started before workout treatments to 

But what really surprised 

us was how 

much better they felt 

after their post-workout 

treatments. “The difference 

was striking in how quickly they recovered.” 

After noticing the difference, he was encouraged 

to continue the Cytowave treatements. 

“We get bombarded with a lot of products and it’s hard 

to weed out which one’s work from all the noise,” McLain 

added. 

McLain noticed an uptick in winning and his earnings. 

The 2nd highest earner of the year was the USA’s McLain 

Ward, who collected a total of $1.6 million. While Ward 

fell a few hundred thousand dollars short of Brash’s earnings, 

the American rider competed far less than his British 

counterpart. Brash competed at 42, FEI CSI-rated competitions 

during the year and Ward attended just 30. Looking 

at average earnings per show, Ward tops the list, averaging 

$54,063 per competition he entered. In spite of having the 

lightest schedule, Ward picked up more wins than any of 

the top riders.

UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE // NOV 2016 

“Injury prevention is the key 

to winning and having a long 

career for your horses.” 

McLain 

Ward, a 

professional 

show jumper 

and two-time Olympic 

Gold Medal winner 

knows a thing or two about 

winning and keeping horses 

healthy. He began using Cytowave 

after Quentin Judge, another professional 

equine athlete, recommended 

that he use it for his competition horse 

s . 

McLain 

h a s n ’ t 

looked back 

since. 

When asked 

if he thought it helped 

to prevent injuries, McLain 

commented, “Absolutely. Just 

like any human athlete, if you’re more 

stretched out more relaxed, more 

suppleness, more blood flow, all these 

things add to decrease the number of 

competition related injuries and I think 

this is all a push in that direction.” 

McLain, like much of the equine 

world, is quite skeptical of new products. 

He’s seen his share and he understands 

that most of them simply 

don’t live up to the promises. He does 

believe in Cytowave though. 

“I think a lot 

of new technology 

comes along, and we 

try to embrace technology 

to try to help our equine athletes 

and to be honest, I’m very 

skeptical of much of it. I think a lot 

of it doesn’t really help the horses. I’ve 

found with the Cytowave that it’s a 

very useful tool, I’m very, very positive 

about it .” 

I’m a guy who’s in the trenches, 

competing week in and week out, and 

you really see first hand if a machine 

has an effect in improving the health 

and condition of a horse, or if it, for 

lack of a better term, fluff. I’ve found 

that with the Cytowave machine, the 

horses come out more relaxed, more 

supple, and just seem to enjoy the experience 

and seem to feel better for 

it. You know, that’s where we’re aiming, 

to compete at the top level, with 

the horses as comfortable and healthy 

as possible. McLain, like many other 

Dressage and Hunter/Jumper competitors 

embrace Cytowave as a therapeutic 

device rather than simply waiting 

for an injury to treat. 

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Developing 

AN EQUINE MEDICAL DEVICE 

Richard Parker developed a theory on what signals the 

body produces when it heals itself. 

In 2004, Richard Parker found himself surrounded 

by the best and brighest minds in 

electromagnetic research. He started to look 

at the research from a physics perspective 

and by going through the biophysics he developed 

a theory about healing. “That thinking 

resulted in a test and we theorized that a guiding 

signal determines how the body repairs itself.” 

Richard filed for the patent in 2006 and it 

was granted in 2008. The patent office filed the 

patent without any reservations and they did 

not challenge any of the claims, which is unusual. 

“The patent office went so far as to say that 

this represents a new science which I was quite 

pleased to see. And so therefore, there is only 

one patent on this technology.” 

The body generates certain electromagnet- 

ic signals which are unique to either a healthy 

tissue or an injury. Richard’s theory was that if 

he took the difference between the healthy and 

injured signals, it represented what the body was 

producing to heal itself. “It’s a complex mathematical 

process to derive this signal and it’s perfectly 

logical. Remember the body operates on 

the basis of electrochemical reactions and this 

always involves ionic transfers through cellular 

membranes. This generates a magnetic field by 

pricinicples of electromagnetics. “ In laymans 

terms, Richard found a way to detect, isolate, 

store and then amplify the signal. To obtain 

these signals, Richard had to utilize a SQUID machine, 

which is capable of detecting electromagnetic 

signals down to the cellular level. “Basically 

we’re amplifying the signal to accelerate healing.” 

OBSTACLES 

THE BIGGEST HURDLE IS HUMAN NATURE 

When a trainer or owner is asked why they use a certain modality, 

one of the most common responses at the race track is “we’ve 

been doing it this way for thirty years.” Which cuts right to the 

heart of the matter - those who don’t evolve are typically left behind. 

“It’s one thing not to embrace change - we get that,’ said Tina 

Browne, “but to not even listen is what fascinates me. Here we 

have a product that can change how equine injuries are treated. 

But many times a trainer won’t take the time to listen because 

they believe that there isn’t anything wrong with outdated thinking.” 

Chalk this up to human nature. Humans don’t like to change 

behaviors, even when it is demonstrated that that change can be 

beneficial. “Ultimately, when everyone else is using Cytowave, 

they’ll be forced to step up and give it a try.” 

Special Feature • Cytowave 

Cytowave – A new medical therapy technology 

Reliably reduces recovery times from serious tendon and ligament injuries by 5 months 

By Richard Parker, Chief Technical Officer, CytoWave 

Cytowave is a patented, 

non-invasive treatment based 

on tissue specific signals. 

While other devices in the 

equine market use generic 

electromagnetic waveforms, 

Cytowave offers a tissue 

specific analytic method 

based on the biology of 

the injury. The tissue signal 

is derived based upon the 

difference in biomagnetic 

signals from normal and 

injured tissues. This 

proprietary SQUID Therapy 

Signal (STS) is amplified and 

delivered via a mild magnetic 

field. This new technology 

has been embraced by many 

top veterinarians and is being 

used as an adjunct to stem 

cell therapy or PRP. 

“We’ve used Cytowave 

most effectively for 

tendon injuries, some 

suspensory branch 

injuries, it’s been very 

helpful.” 

— Dr. Tim Ober, 

United States Equestrian Team 

http://bit.ly/EQS2015Summer 

The Basics of CytoWave Technology 

Equine tendon and ligament injuries occur frequently in both competitive and companion 

animals. Unfortunately, this type of trauma does not lend itself to fast, non-invasive recovery 

techniques. Disorders of these tendons often become chronic and are difficult to manage 

successfully. In most cases, recovery is prolonged for many months and even years. 

It is theorized that the mechanism for accelerating the closure of ligament and tendon lesions 

is found in the nature of the electromagnetic signals impressed on the subject. The specific 

and complex activity known as the “healing process” is an expression of the local activity of 

electromagnetic fields, as their generation is spontaneous and inevitable due to ionic and 

charged particle flow. 

CytoWave Therapy technology takes 

an actual electromagnetic signal 

given off by the body at an injury site, 

stores and then amplifies that signal 

before re-admitting to the subject so 

as to accelerate the healing process. 

This “jump-start” occurs because 

the signal applied to the injury is very 

similar to the same signal the horse 

produces. That signal, therefore, is 

readily accepted on a cellular level 

and processed in such a manner as Opposing coils held by a boot apparatus deliver 

the CytoWave STSTM signal 

to accelerate the recovery. 

Thus, we have a targeted, tissue specific physical therapy which can be used for soft (muscle 

and nerve), dense (tendons and ligaments) and hard (bone splinters or hairline fractures) tissue 

injuries. 

Cytowave derived signals contrasted with the much older PEMF technology. 

Simple older PEMF signals 

very common in the industry 

Actual physiological waveform 

which looks nothing like PEMF 

Cytowave signals from actual 

measurements accelerating repair 

These signals have been reported to operate about four times faster than PEMF systems and 

obtain consistent results in the 90% range; instead of the 60% range such as is the case with 

other popular technologies. As Cytowave uses tissue-specific signals, it is able to achieve 

consistent results unlike other technologies which treat every injury the same. In fact, we very 

rarely have a failure to close a serious lesion, reduce deep tissue inflammation, relieve sore 

back discomfort or accelerate bone fracture repair. 

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The acceleration of the repair process has produced 

surprising results. “This is why we’ve seen responses in weeks 

rather than the typical months. Some indications are repaired 

in days instead of weeks and months.” 

A NEW MEDICAL THERAPY 

TECHNOLOGY RELIABLY 

REDUCES RECOVERY TIMES 

FROM SERIOUS INJURIES BY 

5 MONTHS 

These signals have been reported to operate about four 

times faster than PEMF systems and obtain consistent results 

in the 90% range; instead of the 60% range which is the case 

with other popular technologies. Cytowave achieves quicker 

and more consistent results because it uses tissue derived and 

tissue specific signals. Other technologies treat every injury 

and tissue type with the same wave pattern. They have a one 

size fits all approach, which doesn’t quite work. “We very rarely 

have a failure to close a serious lesion, reduce deep tissue inflammation, 

relieve sore back discomfort or accelerate bone 

CUTTING EDGE 

Cytowave is a patented, non-invasive treatment 

based on tissue specific signals. While other devices 

in the equine market use generic electromagnetic 

waveforms, Cytowave offers a tissue 

specific analytic method based on the biology of 

the injury. The tissue signal is derived based upon the difference 

in biomagnetic signals from normal and injured 

tissues. This proprietary SQUID Therapy Signal (STS) is 

amplified and delivered via a mild magnetic field. This new 

technology has been embraced by many top veterinarians 

and is being used as an adjunct to stem cell therapy or PRP. 

THE BASICS OF THE 

CYTOWAVE TECHNOL- 

“Cytowave helps to jump 

start healing.” 

Equine tendon and 

ligament injuries occur 

frequently in both competitive 

and companion 

animals. Unfortunately, 

this type of trauma does 

not lend itself to fast, 

non-invasive recovery 

techniques. Disorders 

of these tendons often 

become chronic and are 

difficult to manage successfully. 

In most cases, 

recovery is prolonged 

for many months and 

even years. 

It is theorized that 

the mechanism for accelerating 

the closure 

of ligament and tendon 

lesions is found in the 

nature of the electromagnetic 

signals impressed 

on the subject. 

The specific and complex 

activity known as 

the “healing process” 

is an expression of the 

local activity of electromagnetic 

fields, as their 

generation is spontaneous 

and inevitable due 

to ionic and charged 

particle flow. 

Cytowave Therapy 

technology takes an 

actual electromagnetic 

signal given off by the 

body at an injury site, 

stores and then amplifies 

that signal before 

re-admitting to the subject 

so as to accelerate 

the healing process. 

This “jump-start” occurs because the signal applied 

to the injury is very similar to the same signal the horse 

produces. That signal, therefore, is readily accepted on a 

cellular level and processed in such a manner as to accelerate 

the recovery. This explains why stubborn tendon and 

ligament injuries, which typically take six to eight months to 

heal, can be closed in as little as six weeks using Cytowave 

technology. 

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HEALING A 24 YEAR 

OLD HORSE 

TACKLING A SEVERE, 75% 

TEAR OF A LIGAMENT 

IN AN OLD HORSE IS 

A TOUGH ASSIGN- 

MENT 

Angel knew they were 

going to have problems 

when Moriah wasn’t 

responding to any treatments. 

Moriah had stumbled out in the field 

and her right front leg resembled a fat sausage. “She 

was really hurting, and lets face it, at 24 years old, 

they don’t heal too quickly if at all,” Angel said. 

After exhausting her options, Angel decided to 

try Cytowave and see if it could at least help get 

the swelling down. She’d hear how severe tears 

that took months to heal were now being closed in 

as little as two months with Cytowave. All she was 

looking for was getting the swelling reduced and 

providing enough mobility to get Moriah back out 

in the field. 

Angel began Cytowave treatments, starting 

with the 30 minute inflammation program, and 

working her way up to the hour long tendon/ligament 

program. After six weeks, she was really disheartened. 

The swelling wasn’t receding and she 

began to think that Moriah would never heal. 

Angel spoke with the company’s sales director 

who encouraged her to keep trying. She also spoke 

with the inventor, Richard Parker, who also suggest- 

“THIS WAS ONE OF THE 

WORST TEARS THAT WE’D 

EVER SEEN.” 

Richard said, “You’ve got to remember that the state of 

health of an animal plays a big role in how quickly they will 

heal. Just like with humans.” Angel decided to keep treating 

Moriah with Cytowave to the exclusion of any other 

modalities. 

Finally, at around thirteen weeks, the swelling suddenly 

began to subside. “We were so thrilled and Moriah 

was feeling so much better.” After a few more treatments, 

Moriah began to walk out in the pasture and gradually got 

her life back. “This was probabaly one of the most stubborn 

and severe injuries that we’d ever had to deal with,” 

said Tina Browne, the GM at Cytowave. “Fortunately Angel 

stuck with it and had confidence in the technology. “ 

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HEAL 

not mask 

Equine professionals are growing tired of 

short, temporary gains and recurring 

injuries. 

Masking an injury is still a common practice, a 

pernicious mind-set that clings to an archaic approach 

to caring for a horse. Mask the injury 

rather than heal it so you can get them back on 

the track sooner. The choice is simple - you can 

numb an area for a temporary fix, or you can seek out a technology 

that has so far proven not to produce reinjuries. 

One of the challenges that 

Cytowave faced was the 

perception that it was 

having an analgesic effect 

on tissue. “Clearly the 

technology wasn’t being understood and 

we needed to really walk people through 

how it worked,” Richard Parker said. 

In fact, it took a Cytowave engineer 

many months of back and forth with individuals 

at FEI to help them understand 

that it was totally natural and that there 

was no masking going on nor was it 

numbing any tissue. “ One issue that was 

compounding the perception problem 

was that the company name contains the 

word “wave.” The association with “shockwave” 

led many to assume it numbed the 

tissue. FEI revised their findings and determined 

that Cytowave was safe to use. 

They also stated that they will be reviewing 

all products to determine if any can be 

used at future competitions. 

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ATop Barrel Racer 

embraces Cytowave 

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INFLAMMATION TREATMENTS 

Tendons and ligaments get stressed during 

workouts. 

2 

3 

BEFORE 

Used before to warm up and loosen muscles, 

Cytowave can improve workouts. 

AFTER 

Used after an intense workout, Cytowave can 

take away pain, soreness & inflammation. 

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INJURIES 

Experience suggests that by removing inflammation 

after a workout, Cytowave can help 

prevent micro-tears which cause injuries. 

A 

ward-winning 1 Division rodeo 

barrel racer, Darcy LaPier used Cytowave 

on her 14-year-old gelding 

Dash to help him recover from an 

injury. “I’m very particular with what 

I use on my horses,” said LaPier. “Cytowave’s 

statements are true. It heals in rapid time. I was 

so impressed with what Cytowave did for Dash.” 

LaPier’s veterinarian, Dr. Tom Hutchins, recommended 

Cytowave to help Dash recover from a 

bone bruise and deep digital tendon fraying.. 

Dr. Tom Hutchins of Silverado Equine Performance, 

LLC in Weatherford, Texas is certified 

as a Diplomate by the American Board of Veterinary 

Practitioners (ABVP) specializing 

in Equine Practice. His practice provides 

care for each horse with all necessary 

diagnostic tools available for an equine 

athlete. “Dash had undergone PRP and 

shockwave therapy but the only thing that 

worked was Cytowave.” Dr. Tom Hutchins 

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said. “Dash is traveling very well and I’m 

very pleased thus far.” Dr. Hutchins understands 

how unique the new Cytowave 

technology is and how it differs from traditional 

modalities that have been used 

to treat injured horses. “I have recommended 

Cytowave to over a dozen clients 

within the last five months and have seen 

excellent results in all of them,” said Dr. 

Hutchins. “The device is great for healing 

injuries that are difficult to get to. It is a 

non-invasive, affordable instrument that 

provides unique therapy. With guidance 

from a veterinarian, an owner can use Cy-


Darcy Lapier is considered 

one of the top barrel racing 

professionals in the United 

States. She was a featured 

star on “Rodeo Girls” which 

premiered on A&E channel. 

the supervision of a veterinarian. 

“I HAVE RECOM- 

MENDED CYTOWAVE 

TO OVER A DOZEN 

CLIENTS WITHIN THE 

LAST FIVE YEARS 

AND HAVE SEEN EX- 

CELLENT RESULTS IN 

ALL OF THEM.” 

“CYTOWAVE WAS THE ONLY 

THING THAT WORKED.” 

towave themselves in the comfort of their own stable.” 

“Cytowave was the only thing that worked. It was 

remarkable because he was walking in two weeks.” LaPier 

said. “Dash is exercising just like my other horses. I’m not 

holding him back, and he has more confidence when we 

ride.” Dash received six weeks of Cytowave treatments and 

in his first return to competition, Dash finished 8th out of 

135 competitors! 

Severe tendon and ligament lesions can require twelve 

or more months of total recovery time. Cytowave Equine 

Therapy dramatically reduces recovery time so a horse is 

back to its peak performance as quickly as possible. 

Cytowave can typically reduce recovery time for moderate 

to severe tendon and ligament injuries by five or more 

months and has been used to heal soft tissue injuries, 

soreness and inflammation, and hock trauma. Preventative 

use of Cytowave can also help reduce the risk of future 

injury and help alleviate discomfort for your horse, 

especially back pain. 

Dr. Hutchins has been a firm believer in the technology 

and has referred numerous clients to Cytowave. He 

states that all of his clients that have gone on to use Cytowave, 

either for injuries or prevention, report excellent 

results. 

Cytowave is designed to be used in your barn, under 

It’s 

miraculous 

how quickly it 

moves the healing 

process 

along.” 

Veterinarian, Racing Trainer 

and Horse Owner, 

Barry Eisaman, DVM 

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INFLAMMATION 

The source of all injuries 

INFLAMMATION HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE STARTING POINT 

OF MANY SERIOUS INJURIES 

“It most definitely takes the horse’s 

pain away faster than normal. 

When the swelling goes away all 

the cardinal signs of inflammation—heat, 

swelling, loss of 

function and pain, all of these 

things disappear at an accelerated 

rate.” 

Cytowave is known for reliably closing 

major tendon and ligament tears 

in three to five weeks, allowing you 

to begin rehabilitation much earlier. 

Many top professionals have discovered 

that, when used as a proactive tool, Cytowave 

can help prevent injuries and be the foundation 

of a sound, wellness program. 

Trainers and top professionals in every 

discipline are now embracing Cytowave as a 

preventive tool. Due to Cytowave’s ability to 

quickly reduce inflammation and improve 

blood flow, the chance of developing micro 

tears is greatly reduced. Micro tears lead to bigger 

tears which lead to long layups. “...I noticed 

almost instantly, that the leg was less swollen 

and you feel less heat, and overall the horse 

is more comfortable with a sensitive injury,” 

Quentin Judge said in a video interview. 

Susan Montayne, of SBM Training 

and Sales, is an advocate of reducing inflammation 

by increasing the blood flow to areas 

prone to injuries. “I’m a big believer in therapy 

that promotes blood flow and Cytowave helps 

our horses. They’re athletes and we put a lot of 

stress on them and Cytowave allows us to free 

them up on a natural basis,” Susan said. 

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DR. JON ALLEN 

GULFSTREAM RACETRACK


“We use it on most of our top 

competition horses, 6 or 7 

horses that regularly compete 

at the highest level of the 

sport, in between events, we 

use it all the time.” 

McLain Ward understands the role that inflammation 

plays in performance as well as the 

potential for catastrophic injury in the future if 

it isn’t addressed. “We’ve found that Cytowave is 

a great piece in our tool kit. As a preventative, to 

keep the horse relaxed, keeping the circulation 

level high, keeping the muscles stretched and 

loose, and it’s really helped a wonderful amount, 

and in my opinion, far better than any other machine 

we’ve used.” McLain added, “We use Cytowave 

typically as a therapeutic tool.” 

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Timothy Ober 

When this well respected equine veterinarian talks, people tend to listen 

Dr. Timothy Ober has seen a lot of 

technologies come and go. Many 

companies make grand promises only 

to flame out with a muffled whimper 

and fade away to become part of the 

background noise. 

What’s refreshing about Dr. Ober is not 

that he wants to get right at treating an injury, 

he wants to understand why the injury occurred 

in the first place. “When I have a horse that’s incurred 

an injury, I want to understand what lead 

to that injury in the first place by identifying the 

root problem,” Dr. Ober says. 

“Once you identify why an injury happens, 

only then can you decide upon the best course 

of action to promote healing and then we want 

to focus on the injury, healing both in short term 

and the long term for return to function and a 

return to performance.” 

Like many top equine professionals, Dr. 

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Ober embraces a number of modalities 

and Cytowave is one of them. “So 

when we’re doing that and focusing 

on the tendon or soft tissue aspect of 

the problem we’re usually using several 

different approaches and the Cytowave 

has become one of those several 

approaches that we use to try to 

optimize healing and stimulate the soft 

tissues to move in the right direction 

to regain strength and get the horse 

back to the ring.” 

Because Cytowave is quite different 

from all other modalities, it takes 

quite awhile to wrap your head around 

what it is doing, but once it is used, 

it’s undeniable that there is something 

going on. “We’ve used Cytowave most 

effectively for tendon injuries, some 

suspensory branch injuries, it’s been 

very helpful.” 

Dr. Ober said he sees a wide variety 

of issues and gave one particular 

example of when Cytowave helped. 

“We were struggling to get the edema 

to fully resolve and we were struggling 

to get normal fiber alignment and I 

would say when we started Cytowave, 

we pushed the tendon forward in that 

direction, on both counts. “ 

Cytowave has quickly earned a 

spot in the collective tool box along 

with stem cell, PRP, Shockwave and 

other modalities. Cytowave works well 

by itself and plays well with others. 

With his experience, Dr. Ober understands 

how Cytowave can fit into a 

routine. “I think that anytime you can


“We’ve used Cytowave 

most effectively for 

tendon injuries, some 

suspensory branch injuries, 

it’s been very helpful.” 

You can tell by his listening skills and 

measured, carefully chosen words that 

Dr. Ober doesn’t take the relationship between 

technology and healing lightly. 

Dr. Ober utilizes many modalities 

when treating horses, noting that one 

technology by itself seldom delivers the 

intended healing. 

Diagnostics are a key component 

of healing. If you don’t correctly 

identify the origins of an injury, the 

chances of successfully healing said injury 

are lessened. Once the root cause of an 

injury is identified, you can design a treatment 

program to address the injury. Dr. 

Ober embraces Cytowave to the extent 

that he recognizes that it can be another 

tool in his healing arsenal. 

stimulate a soft tissue injury to normalize and to 

improve circulation you can further the effect 

of the other modalities. So I think in this case, 

we’re using Cytowave in that direction. Horses 

are notorious for being slow to heal and to heal 

incompletely and part of the reason is that we’ve 

failed to identify the primary problem that led to 

the overload that lead to the injury in the first 

place so we focus very heavily on doing that. For 

me, Cytowave is another tool that helps stubborn 

tendons move in the right direction for us.” 

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does it work? 

Healing Waves 

As with any new technology, there’s a lot of misinformation 

out there. Coupled with the equine world, 

where medical habits change at a glacial pace, you 

need accurate information. 

Details are hard to come by when dealing with new technologies. 

Given the fact that Cytowave is a hybrid technology 

that combines one old technology and a newer, 

patented approach to healing, facts are in short supply 

and we’re not talking about alternative facts, we’re talking 

real facts. 

Cytowave technology represents a novel method of treating injuries 

using tissue-based signals. There are many other products on the 

market that use generic electromagnetic waveforms, but Cytowave 

has taken a very different and perhaps a more logical approach. Rather 

than a one-size fits all approach, this approach is based on the biology 

of the injury. The signal is derived based upon the difference in biomagnetic 

signals from normal and injured tissues. Cytowave’s novel 

technology was granted protection from the US patent office. This 

VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN 

SUCCESS 

When Cytowave was beta tested 

at Gulfstream Park in South Florida, 

it produced very quick results 

and the company was off and running. 

The demand for the product 

created an issue that would not 

become apparent for a couple 

of years. The R&D budget was 

non-existent because the product 

worked. Flash forward a couple of 

years later and veterinarians are 

asking for data. The company is focused 

on produting data that will 

hopefully detail the actual physical 

changes that are happening 

technology was presented at various international meetings such as 

Scandinavian Congress of Sports Medicine, VI International Workshop 

on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, XXXIIIth Annual meeting 

of BEMS and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. 

Healing occurs via a series of integrated stages, each of which is 

essential to the repair processes. Therefore, it is important to evaluate 

the contribution of basic cellular activities occurring at a given stage in 

tissue repair. This extremely complex phenomenon involves a number 

of processes such as vascular responses, cellular activity, 

and release of chemical mediators within the injured tissues. 

The list should also include regeneration of parenchymal 

cells, migration and proliferation of both parenchymal 

and connective tissue cells, synthesis of extracellular matrix 

proteins, remodeling of connective tissue, collagenization, 

and acquisition of tissue strength. One area of specific interest 

is the effect of EMF and MF on cell proliferation. 

In pathological conditions, cell proliferation is usually suppressed 

(in conditions of chronic wounds) or enhanced (in 

the case of neoplastic growth). Magnetic field stimulation of 

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the skin fibroblast resulting in significant 

increase in collagen secretion and protein 

concentration has been reported. These 

results suggest a favorable alteration in 

the proliferative and migratory capacity 

of epithelial and connective tissue cells 

involved in tissue regeneration and repair. 

The Cytowave EMF Therapy containing 

the patented Squid Therapy Signals 

TM , represents a significantly effective 

approach to the healing process—it is an 

easier to apply, less expensive and comfortable 

therapy when compared with 

electric current stimulation. The treatments 

can be applied in the presence of 

a cast or wound dressing. Basic scientific 

studies suggest that nearly all participants 

in the healing process (such as fibrinogen, 

leukocytes, fibrin, platelets, cytokines, 

growth factors, fibroblasts, collagen, elastin, 

keratinocytes, osteoblasts, and free 

radicals) exhibit alterations in their performance 

when so exposed. Magnetic fields 

affect vasoconstriction, No Nitric Oxide 

and vasodilation, phagocytosis, cell proliferation, 

formation of cellular network, 

epithelization, and scar formation. 

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UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE // NOV 2016 

Quentin 

Judge 

Quentin Judge has been a top competitor in 

the equestrian world and has seen a lot of 

products come and go. 

“HE WAS THE ONE THAT LED US TO CYTOWAVE.” 

Quentin Judge is passionate 

about his horses and 

competition. He understands 

the value of 

not only healing horses, 

but in preventing injuries. We had a 

chance to catch up with him and get his 

thoughts on Cytowave. Quentin was 

introduced to Cytowave by Dr. Tim Ober, 

who believed that Double H farm could 

benefit from the technology. All sport 

horses develop aches and pains just like 

any athlete does. “We have horses that 

have, as many sport horses do, soft tissue 

injuries, little strains, back soreness, 

hock soreness, bone edema, things like 

that and we found that Cytowave is really 

helpful for all those issues,” Quentin 

said. Double H Farm originally used Cytowave 

for a specific injury but found that, 

as they used it on horses, whether they 

were injured or not, the horses responded 

p o s i ti ve l y. It ’s b e e n a m a i n s t a y e ve r s i n c e . 

“We were originally interested in Cytowave 

for one horse that we had, a 

horse that had severe tendonitis in his 

right front tendon. And Dr. Ober thought 

it would really help him. That was when 

we first started, just with that one horse. 

But as we got going with it, and had differ- 

“One of my 

favorite things 

about the machine is 

that you can tailor it to 

ent experiences any horse with that you have.” 

.other horses and different issues, we really 

found that we could use it for not only repairing 

injuries and preventive but for maintenance for 

all our horses,” Quentin added. 

As time passed, they found they 

were treating less injuries and 

that the focus had become more 

preventive and maintenance. 

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OTHER MODALITIES 

Like many other barns, Double H 

Farm used the traditional magnetic 

blankets with the large 

coils. Once they were introduced 

to Cytowave and began to see 

the results, they found that they 

were using the magnetic blankets 

less because of the versatility of 

Cytowave. “We’ve found that with 

Cytowave we can minimize the 

other machines we have, because, 

like I said, we can use it on so 

many injuries. It’s kind of an all in 

one tool.” 

“WE’VE KEPT THAT HORSE ON A REGULAR DAILY 

MAINTENANCE PROGRAM WITH CYTOWAVE SINCE 

THEN AND THE HORSE HAS NEVER MISSED A 

SHOW AND HE’S NEVER MISSED A COMPETITION.” 

H. H. Copen Van Der Bright was a stallion that came over from Europe. Double 

H farm only had him for a couple of days after he left quarantine and he developed 

swelling in his right front tendon. There was no tear but there was 

tendonitis between the fibers, which is the first step to a tear and injury. That 

was the first horse that they used Cytowave on and he’s been on a regular daily 

maintenance program with Cytowave since then. He hasn’t missed a show and 

he’s never missed a competition. “We’ve been able to maintain the leg, keep 

him strong and sound, no medications or pain killers and make sure the horse 

is sound and ready to compete and we’ve been able to show him throughout 

the year at different venues and that’s really, really helped and that’s been for 

us the main selling point. We had a specific injury that we worried about and 

Cytowave has allowed us to keep the horse in competition comfortably.” 

Cytowave does cover a lot of 

ground, whereas many modalities 

are effective and address one 

issue, Cytowave is flexible enough 

to address fractures, tears, inflammation 

and pain relief. 

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Healing Naturally 

Marcus came to Cytowave 

by way of Arlene White 

o f t h e A n i m a l Re h a b 

Institute in Loxahatchee, 

Florida. A horse owner 

had approached her because her horse 

had multitple issues and there was no 

consensus among the vets treating him 

as to what the issue was. No one could 

identify why her horse was lame but they 

could identify a number of issues. Cellulitus 

and a problematic SI were some of 

the issues plaguing Marcus. The owner, 

Heather, had taken Marcus to a number 

of hospitals and specialists in Canada. 

She was understandably frustrated at the 

thought of losing her beloved Marcus to 

conditions they couldn’t even identify. 

Arlene provided Cytowave a thick file of 

all the treatments and a letter she had 

received from Heather. She hoped that 

Cytowave could help. Cytowave reached 

out to Heather and offered a unit for her 

to use. Heather began treatments and the 

progress was slow but noticeable. Heather 

continued the treatments and sent Cytowave 

weekly reports on his progress, 

all guardedly optimistic. Her last checkup 

with Cytowave consisted of video of 

Marcus jumping, something he has never 

done before in his life. And this from her 

veterinarian: 

“There appears to be differences in both 

the left and right SI joint spaces from July 

to September 

– There is mineralization in the left jt on 

the Sept. exam which was not present (or 

not seen) in July 

– The right joint had a large mineralization 

(osteophyte) in July, which is not 

readily visible in the Sept. exam and the jt 

space appears more normal on the Sept. 

exam, compared to the July images.” 

There are numerous Cytowave success stories across the equine 

landscape. 

MORIAH 

This is one of the worst lesions that 

Cytowave had ever seen - 70% of the 

horse’s tendon was torn and after six 

weeks of treatment, the owner was getting 

frustrated with the lack of visable 

results. Finally, after eight weeks of 

daily one hour treatements, the swelling 

and inflammation subsided and the 

injury healed well enough to begin 

rehabilitation. After 13 weeks, she was 

out in the pasture exercising and today 

enjoys a normal life as a retired equine 

athlete. 

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Grady and his 80% Tear 

Another anguished call from another upset owner. Desperate for help, they approached Cytowave. Grady had suffered 

a horrible tear and things weren’t looking so good for Grady. You can see how swollen the leg is before treatments were 

started. We think the email below from the owner sums up her experience with Cytowave. 

“Omg- sorry - still processing!! Dr Nancy said the Cytowave DEFINITELY works!!! 

She is a 1 woman Dynamo & asked me to get memory sticks & will download all Grady’s ultrasounds onto that & we will 

send it to you. Prob take a few days to a week. Trying to nail down PRP appt. My “gut”- instinct was “ validated”!!!! Amazing. 

Thank you so much.. I knew my miracle horse Grady was coming home to me. Now he will come home sooner ! 

We expect to be tack walking April/March!!! I do believe in Miracles. I do, I do, I do!!!” 

Always & Forever, 

Nancy & Grady 

THREE CARD MONTE 

Monte was adopted by Cytowave when he incurred a very serious bowed tendon 

(lesion or cavity within the tendon) which extended fully 60% of the tendon 

length. The owner knew his racing days were over and he thought him worthless 

and gave him up. 

Since his Cytowave treatments, Monte has not only 

recovered, he has found a new home and he is now barrel 

racing after two years of mending. The pictures to 

the left and right are after being treated with Cytowave. 

Not bad for a horse that would have been euthanized 

had Cytowave not stepped in to help heal him. 

You can read more about Monte at www.cytowave.com 

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Mikala Gundersen 

TOP DRESSAGE RIDERS GET RESULTS WITH CY- 

TOP EARNING DRESSAGE RIDER 2015 

Mikala Mintere Gundersen hails from Denmark and when we caught up with her, 

she was riding My Lady at the CDI World Global Dressage festival in Wellington, 

Florida. Mikala and My Lady won the Grand Prix with seventy three percent. At 

that time, it was the biggest win for them and they were quite thrilled with the 

results. 

AVID CYTOWAVE USER 

Mikala said, “Cytowave on My Lady for maintenance to keep her legs fit and 

healthy and tight and I think it really works well. We’ve used it on other horses in 

the stable who had injuries and I’ve seen really good results with the Cytowave 

so now I use it on my top competition horses as maintenance. Just part of the 

therapy we use to keep the horses fit at this level.” 

THOUGHTS ON CYTOWAVE 

“I think it’s a great product and I’ve seen really, really great results with the 

Cytowave. On one of our horses, I’ve seen an injury that almost healed completely 

in two months. It’s very easy to see in the ultrasounds how the fibers are 

growing together…much faster than if you did not use it. We know the tendon 

injuries take a long, long time to heal and we’ve seen tendons heal very, very 

quickly from using the Cytowave and this is why I use it as a daily therapy for my 

good horses to keep them strong.” 

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MIKALA WAS THE TOP EARNING 

COMPETITOR AT THE WEF ADEQUAN 

GAMES IN 2015 

ASevere tendon and 

ligament lesions can require 

a horse to have 

12 months or more of 

total recovery time. Cytowave 

Equine Therapy dramatically 

reduces recovery time so your horse 

is back to their peak performance as 

quickly as possible. Cytowave can typically 

reduce recovery time from moderate 

to severe tendon and ligament 

injuries by 5 months or more. 

Cytowave treatment produces 

amplified natural signals that are used 

by the body in the injury repair process 

on a cellular level. This process 

dramatically reduces recovery time. 

Sport horse owners looking for alternative 

solutions for injuries turn to 

Cytowave for consistent, natural treatment. 

Cytowave takes the difference 

between the damaged and nor mal 

tissue signals detected from Superconductive 

Quantum Interference Device 

(SQUID) studies and feeds it back 

into the body at a much higher power. 

These signals are designed to greatly 

increase the natural repair process of 

the body. 

Danish Olympic rider Bent Jensen, 

who owns and oper ates Bent Jensen 

Dressage in Wellington, has used 

Cytowave on his Grand Prix Dressage 

Horse. Three months after using Cytowave 

on his horse for a tendon tear 

Jensen can tell his horse is stronger. 

“My veterinarian, Dr. Richard Wheeler 

from Palm Beach Equine Clinic, recommended 

I use Cytowave on my 

horse for a faster recovery, said Jensen. 

“After only 5 weeks of therapy, my 

horse is completely healed and back 

to perform ing. The machine was extremely 

easy to use, and I am very happy 

with the results.” Cytowave Equine 

Therapy has been proven to accelerate 

the healing process and recovery 

time in various sport horse disciplines. 

This advanced therapy has been used 

to heal soft tissue injuries, for soreness 

and inflammation,and hock trauma. 

Mikala Gundersen, owner of 

Horse Gym USA and top Dressage 

rider and trainer for over 25 years, has 

been using Cytowave on two horses 

with minor tendon injuries for two 

months. “At my level, I cannot have 

a horse out of work for a year. I have 

never seen a horse heal so quickly from an injury 

like I have from using Cytowave,”·said Gundersen. 

She has had ultrasounds on her horses before 

and after treatment to show how well it works. “I 

have taken the ultrasounds to five differ ent vets 

and they are all amazed at the results. 

The best part of this type of treatment is 

that I am able to keep the horses in training while 

they are healing. Dr. Wheeler suggested I try this 

treatment and he has a good eye and feel for 

what a horse needs. He is the best veterinarian 

for a sport horses.” 

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CPL 

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is no longer 

a death sentence 

CPL used to be a death sentence for a horse. A new 

treatment has stopped the progress of this painful 

affliction and gives hope that it is a potential cure. 

Emily and Mike Jewell own 

a small farm in southern 

Indiana and they breed 

and raise Friesian and Andalusian 

horses. At any 

given time they care for 10 or more 

horses, a few of which are Friesian 

and Andalusian mares. They stand 

two stallions, an Andalusian and their 

pride and joy Friesian stallion Keegan. 

Keegan is the celebrity in their area 

and has appeared in several magazines 

such as Horse Illustrated and 

Horse and Rider. Keegan and some of 

their other horses have been used in 

several Farnam ads. Keegan has really 

made a name for himself, and Grace 

and Beauty farms, with all of his accomplishments. 

Emily understands that when 

it comes to horses, there is no shortage 

of maladies that they can suffer 

from. For example, Emily noticed 

something was wrong with one of her 

Freisians when they were around 5 or 

6 years old. 

Small nodules had appeared 

on the horse’s rear legs, just behind 

the hoofs. At first Emily thought the 

horse had scratches, but when the 

condition worsened, she researched 

and discovered that this was the early 

stage of Chronic Progressive Lymphedema 

(CPL), a lymphatic disorder 

that many draft horses, including 

Friesians are predisposed to. 

Emily began treating her Friesian 

horse to slow the advancement of 

CPL but results were not positive. 

In spite of her efforts, the symptoms 

spread from the right rear leg to the 

left rear leg, then progressed to the 

two front legs. 

She began to fear the inevitable - 

since there is no known cure, most 

heavy bodied horses with CPL have 

to be euthanized around 15 years old. 

“When I said “inflammation 

reduction,” her 

ears really perked up 

a bit.” 

By chance, Emily was approached 

at a horse show by 

John Dovenmuehle who told 

her about Cytowave. “When 

he said “inflammation reduction” 

I really perked up,” 

Emily said. 

At this point, she was 

ready to try anything to slow 

down the progress of this relentless, 

inflammation based 

disease. Cytowave did not 

have a specific CPL based set 

of therapy signals, but it did 

have a robust pain/inflammation 

program that had 

proven effective with other 

inflammation based conditions, 

including cellulitis. “ 

“At first, I didn’t know what 

to think. We had tried everything 

up to this point but 

really didn’t have anything to 

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CPL 

lose.” Emily stated. 

On April 27th, 2016, Emily began 

to use Cytowave treatments exclusively 

on her horse. After only 4 days of 

treatments, Emily noticed the inflammation 

had decreased. After the first 

week, the inflammation in the rear 

legs and the Cannon bone size had 

decreased as well. The nodules and 

the folds were softer, not as hard to the 

touch and the Cytowave boots were 

easier to wrap around his legs due to 

the decreased swelling. 

The shift in her horse’s demeanor 

underscored that positive 

physical changes were taking place. 

“He was more relaxed and comfortable. 

When I let him out in the pen, 

he was more active, running and 

bucking,” Emily said. 

After eight (8) days, the inflammation 

and Canon bone swelling 

continued to decrease. The folds in 

the rear legs were not as thick and 

were separating. Folds and nodules 

were softer and more pliable. There 

was still some dampness and oily 

feeling in the creases of the back hoof 

area but overall, the lesions were 

drier and reducing in size. And for 

the first time in weeks she was able to 

massage his legs without any discomfort. 

“He really began enjoying getting his 

legs massaged after his treatments,” 

Emily continued. “Overall he just 

seems really happy. I did not realize 

how much the disease had slowly 

robbed him of his spirit over the 

years because it was so gradual. Once 

he started feeling better, I realized I 

was getting my old horse back!” 

In the span of 10 days, measurements 

showed that the swelling had been 

substantially reduced. The Canon 

bone showed the most dramatic reduction 

in size, with the left leg going 

from 12 ½” to 10 ½”. 

On May 11th, Dr. Royal evaluated 

Emily’s horse and he noted that the 

Cytowave treatments had drastically 

reduced the swelling and inflammation. 

He said her horse seemed to 

be in very good health and his BAR 

(Bright, Alert, Responsive) was 

excellent. He was in very good 

health, sound, with little sensitivity in 

the folds of his legs. 

“They were 

skeptical at 

first. Once 

they started 

to see results, 

it wasn’t too 

long before 

we heard 

from the 

Fenway 

Foundation.” 

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After twenty one (21) days of treatments, Emily continued 

to see positive results in slowing the progression 

of the CPL condition. The size of the folds and nodules 

decreased and lesions in the rear legs were drier and 

smaller. Pain and sensitivity in the folds of his legs lessened. 

His overall health improved and it was apparent 

that her horse felt much better. 

“At first he stamped his feet and was a bit agitated until 

he got used to the boots,” Emily said. “Now it’s a walk in 

the park for him and he really enjoys the treatments.” 

Her horse will continue with treatments and hopefully 

completely recover. As for Emily? She was so impressed 

with the results that she is now working for Cytowave 

to help promote their new technology. 

“There is a hope that we’re 

going to be the cure for 

this terrible disease.” 

Richard Parker 

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Dr. BARRY 

EISAMAN 

1 

2 

3 

What do you like 

most about Cytowave? 

I think the results. The chance to rehab 

some of these injuries successfully. 

Where, as in past decades, with many of 

these type of injuries, we were looking at 

a 50/50 chance of getting them back to 

full athletic training. 

What do you use it for? 

We use it for rehab, rehabbing or assisting 

to rehab significant soft tissue tears, and 

most of those are tendon or suspensory 

tears. 

Any advice for those considering 

Cytowave? 

Just to encourage folks to view the technology 

as a miracle shortcut to get back 

to the races faster. To view the technology 

as a miraculously wonderful modality 

to speed up the healing of these lesions 

and a big piece of getting these horses 

back successfully, not necessarily quicker. 

“In my experiences with the technology so far, on a n 

either suspensory structures or tendon structures t 

noticeably increases the speed with which the core le 

all size of the injured structure reduces. Especially th 

it’s miraculous how quickly this process moves it alo 

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ew lesion or fresh tear of 

he technology definitely, 

sion fills in and the overat 

first couple of months, 

ng.” 

Quality of healing and length of 

rehabilitation is always an issue 

with horses and decidng when 

they are ready to come back is 

always a judgement call. Rehabilitation 

periods of course will vary depending 

on the severity of the injury. Taking shortcuts 

on rehabilitation will almost always result in another 

injury, frequently worse than the original. 

Top professional equestrian competitors and 

veterinarians understand that when it comes 

to rehabilitation, you should always err on the 

side of caution. “I think if you try to shortcut the 

process, you’re going to have many horses that 

are going to have a recurrence of injury because 

the injury wasn’t healed well enough to handle 

those kind of stresses.” 

Dr. Eisaman has a well refined sense of the 

rehabilitation process. “I think the basic fundamentals 

would be it varies with the injury you’re 

treating. Some are more serious and require a 

lot more time and others are less serious and 

can get back to the races quicker. So it involves 

some professional quarterbacking to make those 

decisions. But if it’s a serious lesion, it requires 

time, give it the time. And most of those soft 

tissue lesions, after they fill in, a tendon tear or 

significant suspensory ligament tear, they then 

require light exercise be it turn out time or jogging 

under tack, or doing things as the healing 

process is maturing and finishing and getting 

hardened to be able to withstand the stresses 

they will have in race training.” 

Dr. Eisaman routinely has over two hundred 

race horses coming through his property 

each year. His belief in the Cytowave technology 

isn’t based on how quickly he has been able 

to get horses back to the track, it’s on the quality 

of the healing that he is seeing. Dr. Eisaman 

said “So far it’s been excellent. And I think it provides 

an end product that is stronger and better 

healed than time or mother nature would do on 

their own. I think that is the exciting part of it, it’s 

better at the end of the road. It’s quicker for the 

initial healing process but don’t short cut things 

and over train your horse too soon thinking it’s 

ready.” 

Cytowave has produced intriguing results 

and with more veterinarians embracing the 

technology, more studies will be done to show 

exactly the impact it is having on the equine 

world. 

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an interview with 

RICHARD PARKER 

The inventor of Cytowave isn’t resting on his laurels. He’s already hard at 

work on his next high-tech invention. 

Richard Parker, t h e i n ve n t o r o f 

Cytowave, is thrilled with the 

results his tissue derived healing 

technolgy has enjoyed. It 

seemed only logical to him that 

if you want to heal a specific tissue type, 

you’d have to communicate with that tissue 

using the same set of wave forms that the 

tissue generates. 

The key he said is the ability of the 

body to identify and recognize the incoming 

signal as one of its own. By readily accepting 

this “healing” signal, the body is kickstarting 

the healing process. 

“Many people in the equine industry 

tend to think of us as some sort of Voodoo 

in a box. I don’t blame them since they’re 

bombarded every month with products that 

claim to be a panacea,” Richard said. 

Many horse owners, trainers and competitors 

are understandably quite skeptical. 

While the exact mechanisms of what 

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type of changes Cytowave is having on tissue 

is unknown, it’s obvious that it is working. 

“I’ve had numerous queries on what 

we’re doing, but honestly, we don’t fully 

understand it,” Richard said. “We can guess 

the obvious from the success we have, improving 

circulation, taking away inflammation 

and detritus from injuries sites, all the 

usual culprits.” 

“Veterinarians who rely on data, which 

is most of them, can get frustrated by our 

lack of controlled studies,” Richard said. 

When Richard points out that there is no 

documentation on how many of the modalities 

actually work, it generally helps 

them understand that healing, in general, is 

poorly understood. “Scientists can’t completely 

explain healing...and when you understand 

and accept that, it’s easier to open 

your mind.” 

Richard has spent a great deal of his 

life involved in research and it’s going 

to take a great deal of money, hard 

work and investigation to really define 

not only what changes are taking place 

in tissue, but how. 

CytoWave technology takes the 

actual electromagnetic signal given 

off by the body at an injury site, stores 

and then amplifies that signal before 

re-admitting to the subject so as to 

accelerate the healing process. This 

“jump-start” occurs because the signal 

applied to the injury is very similar to 

the same signal the horse produces. 

That signal, therefore, is readily accepted 

and processed in such a manner 

as to accelerate the recovery. “Because 

we use tissue-specific signals, 

we’re able to achieve results unlike any 

other technology out there.”


“Morphologie will 

compliment Cytowave 

and help provide the 

undeniable proof of the 

healing power of 

Cytowave.” 

WHAT IS AN “STS ” SIGNAL? 

A SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) makes it possible 

to discover natural magnetic field waveforms associated with cellular activity. 

As the waveform is theorized to contain the intelligence of the biological 

functions taking place locally, it is also proposed that detection and generation 

of the proper waveform associated with a given healing process would 

be an essential component of an optimal waveform delivery device designed 

to accelerate the healing process by delivering that same waveform, in an 

amplified form. Richard coined the phrase “Squid Therapy Signal” to refer to 

the tissue derived signals he developed using a SQUID machine. 

This is detailed in the paper from Parker and Marko Markov, PhD 

titled “SQUID-Based Electromagnetic Fields – a Plausible Tool for Treatment 

of Tendon Injuries presented at the Karolinska Institut, Department of Molecular 

Medicine and Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2014. 

MORPHOLOGIE LLC 

Morphologie, also founded by Richard Parker, has developed an advanced 

mathematical based imaging APP that will show the current status of an injury 

site within minutes. When an ultrasound is performed on a horse, the 

images are uploaded to a cloud based server, processed, then returned to 

the phone APP in the form of a 3D image. 

Three hundred images are needed (10 seconds of ultrasound) to 

derive the mathmatical data and build the 3D image. Once you have the 

image, you can rotate, crop and zoom to look at individual fiber bundles. 

Richard said, “This will revolutionize diagnostics out in the field.” 

About 

the 

inventor 

3D image created from scan 

Chief Technical Officer Richard Parker has 

over 35 years of business experience and 

has been awarded the central patent on the 

CytoWave process. Richard is a former computer 

microprocessor designer and has also 

sponsored his own successful companies in 

real estate development, and in the energy 

field. Richard has focused his attention on 

the field of biomagnetic therapy for the past 

20 years, where he is a frequently invited 

speaker at international venues and has published 

14 papers in major scientific journals. 

Richard earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering 

from the University of Florida and an M.S. 

in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia 

Institute of Technology. 

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The Long 

Road BACK 

Marcus was in bad shape 

and his owner knew it. 

Heather had traveled 

across numerous provinces 

in Canada and the 

veterinarians and specialists were as puzzled 

as she was. He had numerous issues 

and no one could pin point the cause of 

any of them. Cytowave came across Marcus’ 

case via a conversation with Arlene 

White, she of the Animal Rehab Institute 

in South Florida. The owner of a horse 

had contacted her seeking help because 

she had been unable to find out the cause 

of his lameness, nor had they been able 

to treat it successfully. Phenylbutazone, 

Penicillin, Dex, steroid ointment, Baytril, 

acupuncture, Methacarbamol, Thermotex 

blanket, Previcox, Pentosan - those are 

just some of the medications that were 

prescribed to Marcus. Marcus has been 

through a lot in an attempt to figure out 

why he had come up lame, as well as deal 

with a string of other issues. 

Heather started using Cytowave to 

see if that would have a positive impact 

on Marcus’ health. It didn’t take long for 

Heather to notice a few things shortly 

after beginning a treatment regime with 

Cytowave. 

Heather noted that Marcus no longer 

“danced” around in the cross ties while 

being treated. He stood still, was quiet 

and seemed much more relaxed than he 

had been. 

She also stated that “he no longer 

tries to bite at my arm when girthing up 

the saddle and he doesn’t grind his teeth 

with saddling.” The changes were subtle 

but cumulatively they added up to something 

positive going on with Marcus. 

When the farrier came out to work 

on him, he noticed that Marcus was very 

relaxed and stood nicely when he had to 

reset his hind shoes. In the past, Marcus 

was very sore and he didn’t want anyone 

to lift his hind feet. 

Since the onset of his lymphangitis/ 

lameness, they’d been resting Marcus 

for long periods of time. He was sore 

mostly, but since they began Cytowave 

treatments on July 31st, he began to behave 

much better and his soundness has 

improved. While not 100%, Marcus has 

been moving well since the onset of lymphangitis. 

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Heather still marvels at the difference 

she sees since they started treating 

Marcus with Cytowave. “He’s 90% sound, 

which is the best he’s been since the lymphangitis 

started at the end of January.” 

Cytowave is proving to be an excellent 

tool in treating the major inflammation 

based diseases such as cellulitis and 

lymphangitis in particular. 

For now, Heather is extremely happy 

that she has gotten her horse back, something 

that she didn’t think would happen. 

“I am happy that I have my horse back and 

training better than ever!” 

Marcus continues healing and he’s 

storming back to activity after more than 

8 months of being lame. 

Heather was extremely excited that 

he had begun not only exercising again 

,but he was now jumping - something 

that he has only done a few times prior to 

becoming lame.


TREATMENT LOG 

Even though Heather started seeing results quickly, it’s best 

to keep in mind that horses are notoriously slow to heal. To 

give you an idea of Marcus’ treatments, here are the first 

three weeks of his treatment schedule. 

July 

20th - 30 mins inflammatory 

21st - 30 mins inflammatory 

22nd - 60 mins back 

23rd - 60 mins back 

24th - 60 mins back 

25th - 30 mins inflammatory (in the AM with the 

vets) 60 mins back in the PM 




29th - 30 mins inflammatory 


31st - 60 mins fracture 

August 

1st - 60 min fracture 

2nd - 60 min fracture 

3rd - 60 min fracture 

4th - 60 min fracture 

5th - 60 min fracture 

6th - 60 min back 


Pictured above - 

Marcus jumping for the 

first time in his life; Below, 

Marcus receiving 

his back and leg treatments. 

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Pastures give access to much needed nutrients 

Grass muzzles are a hot item these days. I see them 

at almost every equine event I attend. Truthfully, 

I almost laughed the first time I saw one. Then 

I thought to myself “that is a great idea”, many 

horse owners today really need them. But why? 

For thousands of years wild horses have lived on grass alone 

and typically they ate all they wanted. There was no one to stop 

them, turn them out for only a few hours at a time or worse yet 

MUZZLE them. Today, colic, allergies, metabolic issues, laminitis, 

hoof and other health issues are often associated with eating 

too much grass. What is different about today’s grass or perhaps 

what is different about the horse? Obviously a lot has changed! If 

we truly look at the way it was and, “mimic” what’s natural, perh 

a p s w e c a n h ave h e a l t h i e r h o r s e s a n d avo i d a l ot of p ro b l e m s . 

Today’s species of grasses are totally different from the 

past. Most horses today on pasture only have one or two varieties 

of grass – usually timothy, orchard grass with some degree 

of clover and fescue. In the wild, they had access to vast areas 

of grass and abundant species. Equally important was access to 

other plants and herbs. Today they eat what they have access 

to in the spaces we confine them to. Most species of grass (and 

even grain) today are genetically modified – a controversy and 

discussion all in itself. By being able to “pick and choose” what 

they needed, horses received a balance of nutrients. 

For instance, as I am sure you know, most horses will 

chew on tree bark. Of course it is bad for the trees – totally 

inconsequential in the wilderness, but in the back yard pasture, 

chewed dead trees look awful! Simple sugars called polysaccharides 

and amino acids like methionine and perhaps tannins are 

probably what they a re after by eating the trees. Regardless, if 

methionine is supplemented most horses have better hooves. 

Supplementing simple 

polysaccharide 

sugars (not refined 

complex table sugar 

or syrup) will often 

help the gut (sometimes 

stop cribbing 

and help ulcers, too) 

– the gut being the 

source of almost all 

p ro b l e m s i n a h o rs e . 

One such simple sugar in particular is Arabinogalactan, 

obtained from the Western Larch tree. Another is 

Mannose – from the Aloe plant. The Native American Indians 

and “grandmas” everywhere have used these substances for centuries. 

In other parts of the world they may have used Noni fruit 

or Pomegranate or whatever was native to the area – and if the 

horses that were there had access to them, be assured they ate 

the bark, fruit (or whatever) too! 

This is one of the reasons 

supplements are so important today- horses just can’t get all 

they need from the typical diets wegive them, and the one or 

two species of grass they graze just doesn’t provide all they may 

need. There are most likely many ingredients or micronutrients 

that we have not yet discovered. I believe we will someday classify 

polysaccharides as “ESSENTIAL” polysaccharides, just like 

there are essential amino acids, and essential fatty acids now. 

NOTE: The Natural Horse Vet was the first 

to introduce Grape Seed to the horse 

supplement industry. The year was 

1999! What would now be considered 

many years ago, an article in USA 

Today described a revolution in the 

pharmaceutical industry. 

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Goday high fat is “in” but again we must be careful. The easy thing 

to do is buy cheap fat like REFINED or partially hydrogenated oils 

(corn oil for instance). The problem with any refined oil is that all 

the “goody” is filtered out and sold for other purposes. Hydrogenated 

oils are more stable and less likely to spoils or go rancid, 

which is why they are used in almost every snack food, but they 

actually harden and damage cells within the body ad make tissue 

less pliable. This can actually make a situation like insulin resistance 

or metabolic disease (which are often the clinical problems 

that trigger the need for fats to be supplemented in the first 

place) to be even more of a problem. “Hardened” cells don’t respond 

to insulin and other “metabolic reactions” like more pliable 

cells would. Over time “hydrogenation” causes premature aging 

because more and more insulin must be produced and the body’s 

cells become more and more damaged. 

Insulin helps regulate sugar. The grain we feed our horses (corn, 

especially, and molasses) and the “richer”, single variety grasses 

in our pastures cause more and more insulin to be secreted. 

With time, this causes “insulin resistance” – requiring more and 

more insulin to get the job done. The higher the resting insulin 

overall, the quicker all species age and subsequently die – period! 

High resting insulin is rarely detected because usually just blood 

glucose is checked. Simply relying on blood glucose (sugar) levels 

alone is not enough – sugar or blood glucose can be normal 

but resting insulin levels can be extremely elevated- even high 

enough to kill you or your horse. 

ed. Today we fortify the feeds with various minerals and fortify our 

pastures with fertilizer. 

The problem here is that we may actually be causing an imbalance 

of nutrition. Mineral supplements, though well intentioned, 

may give them too much of what they don’t need. Hoof supplements 

are especially bad for this – massive amounts often, chosen 

by man and based on an RDA (recommended daily allowance 

standard) that is 15 years old or more. Natural minerals and salt 

like colloidal minerals and sea salt (often from desert sources that 

used to be the ocean millions of years ago) contain other micronutrients 

as well, and are balanced by mother nature, not by man. 

The confusing issue here is that if you compare mineral amounts 

to man-made products, natural sources often look like they 

contain very low levels. But what they do contain is so much more 

usable or bio-available that it packs a much greater, yet balanced 

punch! They literally contain every nutrient and mineral that 

was once in the “living oceans”. Often with manmade our horses 

over-consume what they don’t need while trying to get what they 

Many horses (and people) are insulin resistant with high resting 

levels of insulin, but because the body is such a miraculous machine 

it is still keeping the sugar normal. Most fat and overweight 

“easy keepers” are insulin resistant. 

Certainly hypothyroid, Cushings, and chronic recurring laminitis 

or foundered horses fit this category as well. Lush green grass or 

stress (as in people) is often associated with, and generally what 

get blamed for acute occurrences – but the underlying metabolic 

situation is usually at cause. Horses need good fats, not sugars! 

By now it should be clear that except in a free wild range situation 

with thousands of acres, it is impossible to have a perfect pasture 

today – but there is a “next to perfect” answer to the perfect 

pasture question! A perfect pasture is one that has a bucket (free 

choice access) of natural salt and naturally sourced minerals hanging 

in it – AT ALL TIMES. And I stress NATURAL source here and at 

ALL times. Even white salt and most minerals are chemical, often 

other industry’s leftovers, full of heavy metals (lead, cadmium, arsenic, 

aluminum, mercury). And salt blocks are just simply useless 

because horses are not lickers – they can not get all of what they 

need from blocks -period! They just can’t lick fast enough. 

In the wild, horses have access to all types of salt and minerals 

where they can pick and choose and balance themselves as need 

do need. AND what they really need may not even be in the mix 

because man is not aware of it – Natural is better! 

Pasture horses must have access to loose salt and minerals at all 

times. If they don’t, they can colic, founder, abort and die almost 

without warning. It all comes back to the health of the horses’ gut. 

Any sudden change, as we well know, can be disastrous. Obvious 

concerns are getting too much grain or sudden exposure to lush 

green grass – but a weather change without free access to loose 

salt and minerals can be just as deadly to a pasture horse. 

Grass is a living, breathing organism (it just breathes carbon dioxide 

rather than oxygen) and it changes hour to hour. If the grass 

“thinks” it is going to die or has less chance of survival, it conserves 

and prepares – just like we would. 

Conservation of water would be a likely action. Grass does this 

by actually drawing potassium up from the ground, and if the 

soil is heavily fertilized, it can draw a lot, because a major part of 

fertilizer is potassium. Potassium allows the plant to attract more 

water. This is good for farmers who sell hay and crops by the 

pound but bad for the actual nutritional value because the grass, 

crop or whatever, is mostly just water. Devastation can occur if 

horses, cattle or other creatures are exposed to too much potassium 

at one time. 

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“THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT 

WE MAY ACTUALLY BE CAUSING AN 

IMBALANCE OF NUTRITION. MIN- 

ERAL SUPPLEMENTS, THOUGH WELL 

INTENTIONED, MAY GIVE THEM TOO 

MUCH OF WHAT THEY DON’T NEED.” 

You may be familiar with Grass Tetany and Milk Fever, and the sudden death associated with its occurrence. These were once thought to 

be magnesium and calcium deficiencies. We now know it is from high potassium forages and grasses. Similar situations causing abortions 

and gut problems often occur in horses. What happens is that the potassium spikes during cool, we conditions and especially after 

long droughts followed by rainfall and rapid growth. Situations like frost and freezing are especially bad – have you ever had horse colic 

after a frost? Probably so- –the reason is a sudden mineral change in the grass, not just frozen grass! During these times sodium, calcium 

and magnesium decrease, while potassium increases. This spike in potassium is often deadly. A major problem like this occurred in 2001 

in the Midwest where reproductive losses occurred in thousands of horses, cattle, sheep and goats. This was severe in Kentucky as well. 

Often cattle were found dead just a few hours after frost and freezes. Mineral blocks just cannot provide the minerals fast enough for 

such rapid changes in weather. Free choice, loose salt and minerals must be available to pasture horses at all times if such problems are 

to be prevented! 

It is also important to consider that since sodium (the Na part of NaCl, or salt) is so similar to potassium, horses often think they have 

enough sodium (but really have too much potassium) so they stop eating salt. This is especially so in the winter when they need it most. 

Force-feeding salt is a viable solution particularly in pregnant mares. This should be in addition to making it readily available free choice. 

(Always be sure to put any salt product near readily available water). 

One further point is that fescue alone is usually blamed for abortions in mares when it is actually the fungus like organisms on the 

fescue that cause the problems. BUT again it is elevated potassium that generally makes these organisms more deadly! The bottom line 

here is that less fertilizer is better and fescue should be avoided for pregnant mares. It would also seem obvious to me to avoid hay that 

has been grown on heavily fertilized fields – especially for pregnant mares. 

Now the big question is how can I make my field better if I can’t fertilize? The answer is to avoid the typical types of fertilizers – those 

that are salt based. Salt fertilizers are destroying our environment as well as our soils. Year after year of fertilizer use kills beneficial earthworms 

that oxygenate the soil with their tunnels. Lack of oxygen kills the soil just like it would us. 

Fortunately, there are “time tested” ways to fertilize that are often even more economical and certainly more beneficial. Unfortunately 

because of all the “politics” involved, major universities seldom teach their use. One of the healthiest ways to make good pastures and 

again, often the most economical is to heavily lime your fields twice per year. Lime is Calcium Carbonate. Calcium keeps the soil basic 

rather than acid. Basic soil is healthy just as a more basic pH is healthier for people. Calcium in the form of lime is cheap and I promise if 

you have many weeds at all growing in your pasture, you need lime. Don’t expect immediate results however, because it take time for 

the lime to be absorbed and utilized. But it will help tremendously over time. 

“AVOID THE 

TYPICAL TYPES 

OF FERTILIZERS - 

THOSE THAT ARE 

SALT BASED.”

While your pastures are improving, it is important to supplement the diet. Most 

horses I have found, at least in the eastern US, are calcium deficient. Typically, soils 

in the western United States contain more calcium – which is why the buffalo 

once flourished there and not in the east. Tremendous calcium is needed for the 

buffalo’s huge bones. For many years now, ring neck pheasant have not grown in 

the southeaster United States either, simply because there is not enough calcium 

in the soil to support their egg shells. Most horses have plenty of phosphorus in 

their diets, so I don’t worry too much about balancing the calcium to phosphorous 

ratio. An exception would be older horses, which occasionally can use more 

phosphorus. 

The answer to perfect pastures is simple – do not use fertilizer and if you do, use 

liquid, non salt types, plenty of lime for the pasture and keep a bucket full of 

NATURAL salt and minerals readily available to your horses at all times! Consider 

the use of crude unrefined essential fatty acids because horses today just can’t get 

them naturally and because they are so important to overall health. 

One final suggestion: If your horse does not have access to grass, such as in the 

winter, or if the grass if poor, always supplement with Beta Carotene. Green grass 

generally provided plenty of Beta Carotene (vitamin A, by the way, is not enough) 

but hay provides hardly any. Beta Carotene is crucial for reproductive health, 

lactation, immune function and hundreds of other benefits. I believe it too, will be 

considered “essential” in the future. 

“All horses especially those pastured horses must have access to loose (preferably 

naturally sourced) salt and minerals at all times! In my humble opinion, our 

#1 most-provided product RED CAL, is the single most healthy thing you can give 

your horse to prevent problems. Just hang a bucket on a fence post and make 

sure there is always some in it.” 

Dr. Dan Moore [DVM] TheNaturalHorseVet.com

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