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WELLINGTON<br />
Issue 1023 | <strong>Feb</strong>ruary - <strong>March</strong> 2017 $12.00<br />
Limited Edition<br />
<strong>Equestrian</strong><br />
INTERVIEWS<br />
How to minimize<br />
INFLAMMATION<br />
Mclain Ward, Richard<br />
Parker, Mikala Gundersen,<br />
Quentin Judge, Dr. Barry<br />
Eisaman, Amy Bock, Dr. Tim<br />
Ober and more!<br />
The<br />
CYTOWAVE<br />
Issue<br />
Everything you wanted<br />
to know about Cytowave<br />
but were afraid to ask!
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McLain Ward<br />
One of the Worlds top competitors<br />
discusses his use of Cytowave<br />
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Equine Medical Devices<br />
What does it take to develop a cutting<br />
edge equine medical therapy device?<br />
Darcy LaPier<br />
14 Competitive barrel-racer talks about 22<br />
competition, therapy and life.<br />
INFLAMMATION<br />
16 The equine industrie’s best kep secret to 26<br />
rapidly reduce inflammation.<br />
Quentin Judge<br />
A top competitor shares his thoughts<br />
on technology.<br />
Mikala Gundersen<br />
An interview with a top dressage<br />
competitor.<br />
<strong>Feb</strong>ruary - <strong>March</strong> 2017<br />
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CPL is no longer a Death Sentence.<br />
CPL is the bane of many horses. Now there is hope for treating this<br />
once fatal disease.<br />
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32<br />
34<br />
36<br />
Amy Bock<br />
Competitor, trainer, attorney -<br />
and you thought you had a busy<br />
life.<br />
Barry Eisaman, DVM<br />
A man of few words has a lot to<br />
say about Cytowave.<br />
RICHARD PARKER<br />
An interview with the inventor of<br />
Cytowave and his plans for the<br />
future of healthcare.<br />
The Long Road Back<br />
How Heather Owchar brought<br />
her horse back from the brink.<br />
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PETER PLETCHER<br />
discusses his use of Cytowave<br />
and what it has meant professionally<br />
to him.<br />
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MCLAINWARD<br />
“CONTROL INFLAMMATION AND<br />
YOU PREVENT INJURIES.”<br />
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TECHNOLOGY<br />
YOU EITHER EM-<br />
BRACE IT OR YOU<br />
DON’T, AND MCLAIN<br />
WARD HAS<br />
ALWAYS EMBRACED<br />
CUTTING EDGE<br />
THERAPIES. WHICH<br />
IS WHY HE’S A CY-<br />
TOWAVE USER.<br />
McLain Ward is a competitor and an athlete.<br />
He understands the workouts he puts his<br />
horses through and he knows that they get<br />
every bit as sore as humans do. He was looking<br />
for something more.<br />
He bagan using Cytowave and was impressed<br />
by how good his horses felt after being<br />
treated. “To feel the horses, how much<br />
looser and warmed up they were, was important.<br />
We knew Cytowave was doing something.”<br />
The key to preventing injuries was to<br />
deal with inflammation right up front. Before<br />
and after workouts. His horses were treated<br />
for 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after.<br />
“We started before workout treatments to<br />
But what really surprised<br />
us was how<br />
much better they felt<br />
after their post-workout<br />
treatments. “The difference<br />
was striking in how quickly they re<strong>cover</strong>ed.”<br />
After noticing the difference, he was encouraged<br />
to continue the Cytowave treatements.<br />
“We get bombarded with a lot of products and it’s hard<br />
to weed out which one’s work from all the noise,” McLain<br />
added.<br />
McLain noticed an uptick in winning and his earnings.<br />
The 2nd highest earner of the year was the USA’s McLain<br />
Ward, who collected a total of $1.6 million. While Ward<br />
fell a few hundred thousand dollars short of Brash’s earnings,<br />
the American rider competed far less than his British<br />
counterpart. Brash competed at 42, FEI CSI-rated competitions<br />
during the year and Ward attended just 30. Looking<br />
at average earnings per show, Ward tops the list, averaging<br />
$54,063 per competition he entered. In spite of having the<br />
lightest schedule, Ward picked up more wins than any of<br />
the top riders.
UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE // NOV 2016<br />
“Injury prevention is the key<br />
to winning and having a long<br />
career for your horses.”<br />
McLain<br />
Ward, a<br />
professional<br />
show jumper<br />
and two-time Olympic<br />
Gold Medal winner<br />
knows a thing or two about<br />
winning and keeping horses<br />
healthy. He began using Cytowave<br />
after Quentin Judge, another professional<br />
equine athlete, recommended<br />
that he use it for his competition horse<br />
s .<br />
McLain<br />
h a s n ’ t<br />
looked back<br />
since.<br />
When asked<br />
if he thought it helped<br />
to prevent injuries, McLain<br />
commented, “Absolutely. Just<br />
like any human athlete, if you’re more<br />
stretched out more relaxed, more<br />
suppleness, more blood flow, all these<br />
things add to decrease the number of<br />
competition related injuries and I think<br />
this is all a push in that direction.”<br />
McLain, like much of the equine<br />
world, is quite skeptical of new products.<br />
He’s seen his share and he understands<br />
that most of them simply<br />
don’t live up to the promises. He does<br />
believe in Cytowave though.<br />
“I think a lot<br />
of new technology<br />
comes along, and we<br />
try to embrace technology<br />
to try to help our equine athletes<br />
and to be honest, I’m very<br />
skeptical of much of it. I think a lot<br />
of it doesn’t really help the horses. I’ve<br />
found with the Cytowave that it’s a<br />
very useful tool, I’m very, very positive<br />
about it .”<br />
I’m a guy who’s in the trenches,<br />
competing week in and week out, and<br />
you really see first hand if a machine<br />
has an effect in improving the health<br />
and condition of a horse, or if it, for<br />
lack of a better term, fluff. I’ve found<br />
that with the Cytowave machine, the<br />
horses come out more relaxed, more<br />
supple, and just seem to enjoy the experience<br />
and seem to feel better for<br />
it. You know, that’s where we’re aiming,<br />
to compete at the top level, with<br />
the horses as comfortable and healthy<br />
as possible. McLain, like many other<br />
Dressage and Hunter/Jumper competitors<br />
embrace Cytowave as a therapeutic<br />
device rather than simply waiting<br />
for an injury to treat.<br />
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Developing<br />
AN EQUINE MEDICAL DEVICE<br />
Richard Parker developed a theory on what signals the<br />
body produces when it heals itself.<br />
In 2004, Richard Parker found himself surrounded<br />
by the best and brighest minds in<br />
electromagnetic research. He started to look<br />
at the research from a physics perspective<br />
and by going through the biophysics he developed<br />
a theory about healing. “That thinking<br />
resulted in a test and we theorized that a guiding<br />
signal determines how the body repairs itself.”<br />
Richard filed for the patent in 2006 and it<br />
was granted in 2008. The patent office filed the<br />
patent without any reservations and they did<br />
not challenge any of the claims, which is unusual.<br />
“The patent office went so far as to say that<br />
this represents a new science which I was quite<br />
pleased to see. And so therefore, there is only<br />
one patent on this technology.”<br />
The body generates certain electromagnet-<br />
ic signals which are unique to either a healthy<br />
tissue or an injury. Richard’s theory was that if<br />
he took the difference between the healthy and<br />
injured signals, it represented what the body was<br />
producing to heal itself. “It’s a complex mathematical<br />
process to derive this signal and it’s perfectly<br />
logical. Remember the body operates on<br />
the basis of electrochemical reactions and this<br />
always involves ionic transfers through cellular<br />
membranes. This generates a magnetic field by<br />
pricinicples of electromagnetics. “ In laymans<br />
terms, Richard found a way to detect, isolate,<br />
store and then amplify the signal. To obtain<br />
these signals, Richard had to utilize a SQUID machine,<br />
which is capable of detecting electromagnetic<br />
signals down to the cellular level. “Basically<br />
we’re amplifying the signal to accelerate healing.”<br />
OBSTACLES<br />
THE BIGGEST HURDLE IS HUMAN NATURE<br />
When a trainer or owner is asked why they use a certain modality,<br />
one of the most common responses at the race track is “we’ve<br />
been doing it this way for thirty years.” Which cuts right to the<br />
heart of the matter - those who don’t evolve are typically left behind.<br />
“It’s one thing not to embrace change - we get that,’ said Tina<br />
Browne, “but to not even listen is what fascinates me. Here we<br />
have a product that can change how equine injuries are treated.<br />
But many times a trainer won’t take the time to listen because<br />
they believe that there isn’t anything wrong with outdated thinking.”<br />
Chalk this up to human nature. Humans don’t like to change<br />
behaviors, even when it is demonstrated that that change can be<br />
beneficial. “Ultimately, when everyone else is using Cytowave,<br />
they’ll be forced to step up and give it a try.”<br />
Special Feature • Cytowave<br />
Cytowave – A new medical therapy technology<br />
Reliably reduces re<strong>cover</strong>y times from serious tendon and ligament injuries by 5 months<br />
By Richard Parker, Chief Technical Officer, CytoWave<br />
Cytowave is a patented,<br />
non-invasive treatment based<br />
on tissue specific signals.<br />
While other devices in the<br />
equine market use generic<br />
electromagnetic waveforms,<br />
Cytowave offers a tissue<br />
specific analytic method<br />
based on the biology of<br />
the injury. The tissue signal<br />
is derived based upon the<br />
difference in biomagnetic<br />
signals from normal and<br />
injured tissues. This<br />
proprietary SQUID Therapy<br />
Signal (STS) is amplified and<br />
delivered via a mild magnetic<br />
field. This new technology<br />
has been embraced by many<br />
top veterinarians and is being<br />
used as an adjunct to stem<br />
cell therapy or PRP.<br />
“We’ve used Cytowave<br />
most effectively for<br />
tendon injuries, some<br />
suspensory branch<br />
injuries, it’s been very<br />
helpful.”<br />
— Dr. Tim Ober,<br />
United States <strong>Equestrian</strong> Team<br />
http://bit.ly/EQS2015Summer<br />
The Basics of CytoWave Technology<br />
Equine tendon and ligament injuries occur frequently in both competitive and companion<br />
animals. Unfortunately, this type of trauma does not lend itself to fast, non-invasive re<strong>cover</strong>y<br />
techniques. Disorders of these tendons often become chronic and are difficult to manage<br />
successfully. In most cases, re<strong>cover</strong>y is prolonged for many months and even years.<br />
It is theorized that the mechanism for accelerating the closure of ligament and tendon lesions<br />
is found in the nature of the electromagnetic signals impressed on the subject. The specific<br />
and complex activity known as the “healing process” is an expression of the local activity of<br />
electromagnetic fields, as their generation is spontaneous and inevitable due to ionic and<br />
charged particle flow.<br />
CytoWave Therapy technology takes<br />
an actual electromagnetic signal<br />
given off by the body at an injury site,<br />
stores and then amplifies that signal<br />
before re-admitting to the subject so<br />
as to accelerate the healing process.<br />
This “jump-start” occurs because<br />
the signal applied to the injury is very<br />
similar to the same signal the horse<br />
produces. That signal, therefore, is<br />
readily accepted on a cellular level<br />
and processed in such a manner as Opposing coils held by a boot apparatus deliver<br />
the CytoWave STSTM signal<br />
to accelerate the re<strong>cover</strong>y.<br />
Thus, we have a targeted, tissue specific physical therapy which can be used for soft (muscle<br />
and nerve), dense (tendons and ligaments) and hard (bone splinters or hairline fractures) tissue<br />
injuries.<br />
Cytowave derived signals contrasted with the much older PEMF technology.<br />
Simple older PEMF signals<br />
very common in the industry<br />
Actual physiological waveform<br />
which looks nothing like PEMF<br />
Cytowave signals from actual<br />
measurements accelerating repair<br />
These signals have been reported to operate about four times faster than PEMF systems and<br />
obtain consistent results in the 90% range; instead of the 60% range such as is the case with<br />
other popular technologies. As Cytowave uses tissue-specific signals, it is able to achieve<br />
consistent results unlike other technologies which treat every injury the same. In fact, we very<br />
rarely have a failure to close a serious lesion, reduce deep tissue inflammation, relieve sore<br />
back discomfort or accelerate bone fracture repair.<br />
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The acceleration of the repair process has produced<br />
surprising results. “This is why we’ve seen responses in weeks<br />
rather than the typical months. Some indications are repaired<br />
in days instead of weeks and months.”<br />
A NEW MEDICAL THERAPY<br />
TECHNOLOGY RELIABLY<br />
REDUCES RECOVERY TIMES<br />
FROM SERIOUS INJURIES BY<br />
5 MONTHS<br />
These signals have been reported to operate about four<br />
times faster than PEMF systems and obtain consistent results<br />
in the 90% range; instead of the 60% range which is the case<br />
with other popular technologies. Cytowave achieves quicker<br />
and more consistent results because it uses tissue derived and<br />
tissue specific signals. Other technologies treat every injury<br />
and tissue type with the same wave pattern. They have a one<br />
size fits all approach, which doesn’t quite work. “We very rarely<br />
have a failure to close a serious lesion, reduce deep tissue inflammation,<br />
relieve sore back discomfort or accelerate bone<br />
CUTTING EDGE<br />
Cytowave is a patented, non-invasive treatment<br />
based on tissue specific signals. While other devices<br />
in the equine market use generic electromagnetic<br />
waveforms, Cytowave offers a tissue<br />
specific analytic method based on the biology of<br />
the injury. The tissue signal is derived based upon the difference<br />
in biomagnetic signals from normal and injured<br />
tissues. This proprietary SQUID Therapy Signal (STS) is<br />
amplified and delivered via a mild magnetic field. This new<br />
technology has been embraced by many top veterinarians<br />
and is being used as an adjunct to stem cell therapy or PRP.<br />
THE BASICS OF THE<br />
CYTOWAVE TECHNOL-<br />
“Cytowave helps to jump<br />
start healing.”<br />
Equine tendon and<br />
ligament injuries occur<br />
frequently in both competitive<br />
and companion<br />
animals. Unfortunately,<br />
this type of trauma does<br />
not lend itself to fast,<br />
non-invasive re<strong>cover</strong>y<br />
techniques. Disorders<br />
of these tendons often<br />
become chronic and are<br />
difficult to manage successfully.<br />
In most cases,<br />
re<strong>cover</strong>y is prolonged<br />
for many months and<br />
even years.<br />
It is theorized that<br />
the mechanism for accelerating<br />
the closure<br />
of ligament and tendon<br />
lesions is found in the<br />
nature of the electromagnetic<br />
signals impressed<br />
on the subject.<br />
The specific and complex<br />
activity known as<br />
the “healing process”<br />
is an expression of the<br />
local activity of electromagnetic<br />
fields, as their<br />
generation is spontaneous<br />
and inevitable due<br />
to ionic and charged<br />
particle flow.<br />
Cytowave Therapy<br />
technology takes an<br />
actual electromagnetic<br />
signal given off by the<br />
body at an injury site,<br />
stores and then amplifies<br />
that signal before<br />
re-admitting to the subject<br />
so as to accelerate<br />
the healing process.<br />
This “jump-start” occurs because the signal applied<br />
to the injury is very similar to the same signal the horse<br />
produces. That signal, therefore, is readily accepted on a<br />
cellular level and processed in such a manner as to accelerate<br />
the re<strong>cover</strong>y. This explains why stubborn tendon and<br />
ligament injuries, which typically take six to eight months to<br />
heal, can be closed in as little as six weeks using Cytowave<br />
technology.<br />
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HEALING A 24 YEAR<br />
OLD HORSE<br />
TACKLING A SEVERE, 75%<br />
TEAR OF A LIGAMENT<br />
IN AN OLD HORSE IS<br />
A TOUGH ASSIGN-<br />
MENT<br />
Angel knew they were<br />
going to have problems<br />
when Moriah wasn’t<br />
responding to any treatments.<br />
Moriah had stumbled out in the field<br />
and her right front leg resembled a fat sausage. “She<br />
was really hurting, and lets face it, at 24 years old,<br />
they don’t heal too quickly if at all,” Angel said.<br />
After exhausting her options, Angel decided to<br />
try Cytowave and see if it could at least help get<br />
the swelling down. She’d hear how severe tears<br />
that took months to heal were now being closed in<br />
as little as two months with Cytowave. All she was<br />
looking for was getting the swelling reduced and<br />
providing enough mobility to get Moriah back out<br />
in the field.<br />
Angel began Cytowave treatments, starting<br />
with the 30 minute inflammation program, and<br />
working her way up to the hour long tendon/ligament<br />
program. After six weeks, she was really disheartened.<br />
The swelling wasn’t receding and she<br />
began to think that Moriah would never heal.<br />
Angel spoke with the company’s sales director<br />
who encouraged her to keep trying. She also spoke<br />
with the inventor, Richard Parker, who also suggest-<br />
“THIS WAS ONE OF THE<br />
WORST TEARS THAT WE’D<br />
EVER SEEN.”<br />
Richard said, “You’ve got to remember that the state of<br />
health of an animal plays a big role in how quickly they will<br />
heal. Just like with humans.” Angel decided to keep treating<br />
Moriah with Cytowave to the exclusion of any other<br />
modalities.<br />
Finally, at around thirteen weeks, the swelling suddenly<br />
began to subside. “We were so thrilled and Moriah<br />
was feeling so much better.” After a few more treatments,<br />
Moriah began to walk out in the pasture and gradually got<br />
her life back. “This was probabaly one of the most stubborn<br />
and severe injuries that we’d ever had to deal with,”<br />
said Tina Browne, the GM at Cytowave. “Fortunately Angel<br />
stuck with it and had confidence in the technology. “<br />
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HEAL<br />
not mask<br />
Equine professionals are growing tired of<br />
short, temporary gains and recurring<br />
injuries.<br />
Masking an injury is still a common practice, a<br />
pernicious mind-set that clings to an archaic approach<br />
to caring for a horse. Mask the injury<br />
rather than heal it so you can get them back on<br />
the track sooner. The choice is simple - you can<br />
numb an area for a temporary fix, or you can seek out a technology<br />
that has so far proven not to produce reinjuries.<br />
One of the challenges that<br />
Cytowave faced was the<br />
perception that it was<br />
having an analgesic effect<br />
on tissue. “Clearly the<br />
technology wasn’t being understood and<br />
we needed to really walk people through<br />
how it worked,” Richard Parker said.<br />
In fact, it took a Cytowave engineer<br />
many months of back and forth with individuals<br />
at FEI to help them understand<br />
that it was totally natural and that there<br />
was no masking going on nor was it<br />
numbing any tissue. “ One issue that was<br />
compounding the perception problem<br />
was that the company name contains the<br />
word “wave.” The association with “shockwave”<br />
led many to assume it numbed the<br />
tissue. FEI revised their findings and determined<br />
that Cytowave was safe to use.<br />
They also stated that they will be reviewing<br />
all products to determine if any can be<br />
used at future competitions.<br />
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ATop Barrel Racer<br />
embraces Cytowave<br />
1<br />
INFLAMMATION TREATMENTS<br />
Tendons and ligaments get stressed during<br />
workouts.<br />
2<br />
3<br />
BEFORE<br />
Used before to warm up and loosen muscles,<br />
Cytowave can improve workouts.<br />
AFTER<br />
Used after an intense workout, Cytowave can<br />
take away pain, soreness & inflammation.<br />
4<br />
INJURIES<br />
Experience suggests that by removing inflammation<br />
after a workout, Cytowave can help<br />
prevent micro-tears which cause injuries.<br />
A<br />
ward-winning 1 Division rodeo<br />
barrel racer, Darcy LaPier used Cytowave<br />
on her 14-year-old gelding<br />
Dash to help him re<strong>cover</strong> from an<br />
injury. “I’m very particular with what<br />
I use on my horses,” said LaPier. “Cytowave’s<br />
statements are true. It heals in rapid time. I was<br />
so impressed with what Cytowave did for Dash.”<br />
LaPier’s veterinarian, Dr. Tom Hutchins, recommended<br />
Cytowave to help Dash re<strong>cover</strong> from a<br />
bone bruise and deep digital tendon fraying..<br />
Dr. Tom Hutchins of Silverado Equine Performance,<br />
LLC in Weatherford, Texas is certified<br />
as a Diplomate by the American Board of Veterinary<br />
Practitioners (ABVP) specializing<br />
in Equine Practice. His practice provides<br />
care for each horse with all necessary<br />
diagnostic tools available for an equine<br />
athlete. “Dash had undergone PRP and<br />
shockwave therapy but the only thing that<br />
worked was Cytowave.” Dr. Tom Hutchins<br />
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said. “Dash is traveling very well and I’m<br />
very pleased thus far.” Dr. Hutchins understands<br />
how unique the new Cytowave<br />
technology is and how it differs from traditional<br />
modalities that have been used<br />
to treat injured horses. “I have recommended<br />
Cytowave to over a dozen clients<br />
within the last five months and have seen<br />
excellent results in all of them,” said Dr.<br />
Hutchins. “The device is great for healing<br />
injuries that are difficult to get to. It is a<br />
non-invasive, affordable instrument that<br />
provides unique therapy. With guidance<br />
from a veterinarian, an owner can use Cy-
WELLINGTON EQUESTRIAN // FEBRUARY - MARCH 2017<br />
Darcy Lapier is considered<br />
one of the top barrel racing<br />
professionals in the United<br />
States. She was a featured<br />
star on “Rodeo Girls” which<br />
premiered on A&E channel.<br />
the supervision of a veterinarian.<br />
“I HAVE RECOM-<br />
MENDED CYTOWAVE<br />
TO OVER A DOZEN<br />
CLIENTS WITHIN THE<br />
LAST FIVE YEARS<br />
AND HAVE SEEN EX-<br />
CELLENT RESULTS IN<br />
ALL OF THEM.”<br />
“CYTOWAVE WAS THE ONLY<br />
THING THAT WORKED.”<br />
towave themselves in the comfort of their own stable.”<br />
“Cytowave was the only thing that worked. It was<br />
remarkable because he was walking in two weeks.” LaPier<br />
said. “Dash is exercising just like my other horses. I’m not<br />
holding him back, and he has more confidence when we<br />
ride.” Dash received six weeks of Cytowave treatments and<br />
in his first return to competition, Dash finished 8th out of<br />
135 competitors!<br />
Severe tendon and ligament lesions can require twelve<br />
or more months of total re<strong>cover</strong>y time. Cytowave Equine<br />
Therapy dramatically reduces re<strong>cover</strong>y time so a horse is<br />
back to its peak performance as quickly as possible.<br />
Cytowave can typically reduce re<strong>cover</strong>y time for moderate<br />
to severe tendon and ligament injuries by five or more<br />
months and has been used to heal soft tissue injuries,<br />
soreness and inflammation, and hock trauma. Preventative<br />
use of Cytowave can also help reduce the risk of future<br />
injury and help alleviate discomfort for your horse,<br />
especially back pain.<br />
Dr. Hutchins has been a firm believer in the technology<br />
and has referred numerous clients to Cytowave. He<br />
states that all of his clients that have gone on to use Cytowave,<br />
either for injuries or prevention, report excellent<br />
results.<br />
Cytowave is designed to be used in your barn, under<br />
It’s<br />
miraculous<br />
how quickly it<br />
moves the healing<br />
process<br />
along.”<br />
Veterinarian, Racing Trainer<br />
and Horse Owner,<br />
Barry Eisaman, DVM<br />
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INFLAMMATION<br />
The source of all injuries<br />
INFLAMMATION HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE STARTING POINT<br />
OF MANY SERIOUS INJURIES<br />
“It most definitely takes the horse’s<br />
pain away faster than normal.<br />
When the swelling goes away all<br />
the cardinal signs of inflammation—heat,<br />
swelling, loss of<br />
function and pain, all of these<br />
things disappear at an accelerated<br />
rate.”<br />
Cytowave is known for reliably closing<br />
major tendon and ligament tears<br />
in three to five weeks, allowing you<br />
to begin rehabilitation much earlier.<br />
Many top professionals have dis<strong>cover</strong>ed<br />
that, when used as a proactive tool, Cytowave<br />
can help prevent injuries and be the foundation<br />
of a sound, wellness program.<br />
Trainers and top professionals in every<br />
discipline are now embracing Cytowave as a<br />
preventive tool. Due to Cytowave’s ability to<br />
quickly reduce inflammation and improve<br />
blood flow, the chance of developing micro<br />
tears is greatly reduced. Micro tears lead to bigger<br />
tears which lead to long layups. “...I noticed<br />
almost instantly, that the leg was less swollen<br />
and you feel less heat, and overall the horse<br />
is more comfortable with a sensitive injury,”<br />
Quentin Judge said in a video interview.<br />
Susan Montayne, of SBM Training<br />
and Sales, is an advocate of reducing inflammation<br />
by increasing the blood flow to areas<br />
prone to injuries. “I’m a big believer in therapy<br />
that promotes blood flow and Cytowave helps<br />
our horses. They’re athletes and we put a lot of<br />
stress on them and Cytowave allows us to free<br />
them up on a natural basis,” Susan said.<br />
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“We use it on most of our top<br />
competition horses, 6 or 7<br />
horses that regularly compete<br />
at the highest level of the<br />
sport, in between events, we<br />
use it all the time.”<br />
McLain Ward understands the role that inflammation<br />
plays in performance as well as the<br />
potential for catastrophic injury in the future if<br />
it isn’t addressed. “We’ve found that Cytowave is<br />
a great piece in our tool kit. As a preventative, to<br />
keep the horse relaxed, keeping the circulation<br />
level high, keeping the muscles stretched and<br />
loose, and it’s really helped a wonderful amount,<br />
and in my opinion, far better than any other machine<br />
we’ve used.” McLain added, “We use Cytowave<br />
typically as a therapeutic tool.”<br />
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Timothy Ober<br />
When this well respected equine veterinarian talks, people tend to listen<br />
Dr. Timothy Ober has seen a lot of<br />
technologies come and go. Many<br />
companies make grand promises only<br />
to flame out with a muffled whimper<br />
and fade away to become part of the<br />
background noise.<br />
What’s refreshing about Dr. Ober is not<br />
that he wants to get right at treating an injury,<br />
he wants to understand why the injury occurred<br />
in the first place. “When I have a horse that’s incurred<br />
an injury, I want to understand what lead<br />
to that injury in the first place by identifying the<br />
root problem,” Dr. Ober says.<br />
“Once you identify why an injury happens,<br />
only then can you decide upon the best course<br />
of action to promote healing and then we want<br />
to focus on the injury, healing both in short term<br />
and the long term for return to function and a<br />
return to performance.”<br />
Like many top equine professionals, Dr.<br />
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Ober embraces a number of modalities<br />
and Cytowave is one of them. “So<br />
when we’re doing that and focusing<br />
on the tendon or soft tissue aspect of<br />
the problem we’re usually using several<br />
different approaches and the Cytowave<br />
has become one of those several<br />
approaches that we use to try to<br />
optimize healing and stimulate the soft<br />
tissues to move in the right direction<br />
to regain strength and get the horse<br />
back to the ring.”<br />
Because Cytowave is quite different<br />
from all other modalities, it takes<br />
quite awhile to wrap your head around<br />
what it is doing, but once it is used,<br />
it’s undeniable that there is something<br />
going on. “We’ve used Cytowave most<br />
effectively for tendon injuries, some<br />
suspensory branch injuries, it’s been<br />
very helpful.”<br />
Dr. Ober said he sees a wide variety<br />
of issues and gave one particular<br />
example of when Cytowave helped.<br />
“We were struggling to get the edema<br />
to fully resolve and we were struggling<br />
to get normal fiber alignment and I<br />
would say when we started Cytowave,<br />
we pushed the tendon forward in that<br />
direction, on both counts. “<br />
Cytowave has quickly earned a<br />
spot in the collective tool box along<br />
with stem cell, PRP, Shockwave and<br />
other modalities. Cytowave works well<br />
by itself and plays well with others.<br />
With his experience, Dr. Ober understands<br />
how Cytowave can fit into a<br />
routine. “I think that anytime you can
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“We’ve used Cytowave<br />
most effectively for<br />
tendon injuries, some<br />
suspensory branch injuries,<br />
it’s been very helpful.”<br />
You can tell by his listening skills and<br />
measured, carefully chosen words that<br />
Dr. Ober doesn’t take the relationship between<br />
technology and healing lightly.<br />
Dr. Ober utilizes many modalities<br />
when treating horses, noting that one<br />
technology by itself seldom delivers the<br />
intended healing.<br />
Diagnostics are a key component<br />
of healing. If you don’t correctly<br />
identify the origins of an injury, the<br />
chances of successfully healing said injury<br />
are lessened. Once the root cause of an<br />
injury is identified, you can design a treatment<br />
program to address the injury. Dr.<br />
Ober embraces Cytowave to the extent<br />
that he recognizes that it can be another<br />
tool in his healing arsenal.<br />
stimulate a soft tissue injury to normalize and to<br />
improve circulation you can further the effect<br />
of the other modalities. So I think in this case,<br />
we’re using Cytowave in that direction. Horses<br />
are notorious for being slow to heal and to heal<br />
incompletely and part of the reason is that we’ve<br />
failed to identify the primary problem that led to<br />
the overload that lead to the injury in the first<br />
place so we focus very heavily on doing that. For<br />
me, Cytowave is another tool that helps stubborn<br />
tendons move in the right direction for us.”<br />
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does it work?<br />
Healing Waves<br />
As with any new technology, there’s a lot of misinformation<br />
out there. Coupled with the equine world,<br />
where medical habits change at a glacial pace, you<br />
need accurate information.<br />
Details are hard to come by when dealing with new technologies.<br />
Given the fact that Cytowave is a hybrid technology<br />
that combines one old technology and a newer,<br />
patented approach to healing, facts are in short supply<br />
and we’re not talking about alternative facts, we’re talking<br />
real facts.<br />
Cytowave technology represents a novel method of treating injuries<br />
using tissue-based signals. There are many other products on the<br />
market that use generic electromagnetic waveforms, but Cytowave<br />
has taken a very different and perhaps a more logical approach. Rather<br />
than a one-size fits all approach, this approach is based on the biology<br />
of the injury. The signal is derived based upon the difference in biomagnetic<br />
signals from normal and injured tissues. Cytowave’s novel<br />
technology was granted protection from the US patent office. This<br />
VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN<br />
SUCCESS<br />
When Cytowave was beta tested<br />
at Gulfstream Park in South Florida,<br />
it produced very quick results<br />
and the company was off and running.<br />
The demand for the product<br />
created an issue that would not<br />
become apparent for a couple<br />
of years. The R&D budget was<br />
non-existent because the product<br />
worked. Flash forward a couple of<br />
years later and veterinarians are<br />
asking for data. The company is focused<br />
on produting data that will<br />
hopefully detail the actual physical<br />
changes that are happening<br />
technology was presented at various international meetings such as<br />
Scandinavian Congress of Sports Medicine, VI International Workshop<br />
on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, XXXIIIth Annual meeting<br />
of BEMS and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.<br />
Healing occurs via a series of integrated stages, each of which is<br />
essential to the repair processes. Therefore, it is important to evaluate<br />
the contribution of basic cellular activities occurring at a given stage in<br />
tissue repair. This extremely complex phenomenon involves a number<br />
of processes such as vascular responses, cellular activity,<br />
and release of chemical mediators within the injured tissues.<br />
The list should also include regeneration of parenchymal<br />
cells, migration and proliferation of both parenchymal<br />
and connective tissue cells, synthesis of extracellular matrix<br />
proteins, remodeling of connective tissue, collagenization,<br />
and acquisition of tissue strength. One area of specific interest<br />
is the effect of EMF and MF on cell proliferation.<br />
In pathological conditions, cell proliferation is usually suppressed<br />
(in conditions of chronic wounds) or enhanced (in<br />
the case of neoplastic growth). Magnetic field stimulation of<br />
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the skin fibroblast resulting in significant<br />
increase in collagen secretion and protein<br />
concentration has been reported. These<br />
results suggest a favorable alteration in<br />
the proliferative and migratory capacity<br />
of epithelial and connective tissue cells<br />
involved in tissue regeneration and repair.<br />
The Cytowave EMF Therapy containing<br />
the patented Squid Therapy Signals<br />
TM , represents a significantly effective<br />
approach to the healing process—it is an<br />
easier to apply, less expensive and comfortable<br />
therapy when compared with<br />
electric current stimulation. The treatments<br />
can be applied in the presence of<br />
a cast or wound dressing. Basic scientific<br />
studies suggest that nearly all participants<br />
in the healing process (such as fibrinogen,<br />
leukocytes, fibrin, platelets, cytokines,<br />
growth factors, fibroblasts, collagen, elastin,<br />
keratinocytes, osteoblasts, and free<br />
radicals) exhibit alterations in their performance<br />
when so exposed. Magnetic fields<br />
affect vasoconstriction, No Nitric Oxide<br />
and vasodilation, phagocytosis, cell proliferation,<br />
formation of cellular network,<br />
epithelization, and scar formation.<br />
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UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE // NOV 2016<br />
Quentin<br />
Judge<br />
Quentin Judge has been a top competitor in<br />
the equestrian world and has seen a lot of<br />
products come and go.<br />
“HE WAS THE ONE THAT LED US TO CYTOWAVE.”<br />
Quentin Judge is passionate<br />
about his horses and<br />
competition. He understands<br />
the value of<br />
not only healing horses,<br />
but in preventing injuries. We had a<br />
chance to catch up with him and get his<br />
thoughts on Cytowave. Quentin was<br />
introduced to Cytowave by Dr. Tim Ober,<br />
who believed that Double H farm could<br />
benefit from the technology. All sport<br />
horses develop aches and pains just like<br />
any athlete does. “We have horses that<br />
have, as many sport horses do, soft tissue<br />
injuries, little strains, back soreness,<br />
hock soreness, bone edema, things like<br />
that and we found that Cytowave is really<br />
helpful for all those issues,” Quentin<br />
said. Double H Farm originally used Cytowave<br />
for a specific injury but found that,<br />
as they used it on horses, whether they<br />
were injured or not, the horses responded<br />
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 .<br />
“We were originally interested in Cytowave<br />
for one horse that we had, a<br />
horse that had severe tendonitis in his<br />
right front tendon. And Dr. Ober thought<br />
it would really help him. That was when<br />
we first started, just with that one horse.<br />
But as we got going with it, and had differ-<br />
“One of my<br />
favorite things<br />
about the machine is<br />
that you can tailor it to<br />
ent experiences any horse with that you have.”<br />
.other horses and different issues, we really<br />
found that we could use it for not only repairing<br />
injuries and preventive but for maintenance for<br />
all our horses,” Quentin added.<br />
As time passed, they found they<br />
were treating less injuries and<br />
that the focus had become more<br />
preventive and maintenance.<br />
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OTHER MODALITIES<br />
Like many other barns, Double H<br />
Farm used the traditional magnetic<br />
blankets with the large<br />
coils. Once they were introduced<br />
to Cytowave and began to see<br />
the results, they found that they<br />
were using the magnetic blankets<br />
less because of the versatility of<br />
Cytowave. “We’ve found that with<br />
Cytowave we can minimize the<br />
other machines we have, because,<br />
like I said, we can use it on so<br />
many injuries. It’s kind of an all in<br />
one tool.”<br />
“WE’VE KEPT THAT HORSE ON A REGULAR DAILY<br />
MAINTENANCE PROGRAM WITH CYTOWAVE SINCE<br />
THEN AND THE HORSE HAS NEVER MISSED A<br />
SHOW AND HE’S NEVER MISSED A COMPETITION.”<br />
H. H. Copen Van Der Bright was a stallion that came over from Europe. Double<br />
H farm only had him for a couple of days after he left quarantine and he developed<br />
swelling in his right front tendon. There was no tear but there was<br />
tendonitis between the fibers, which is the first step to a tear and injury. That<br />
was the first horse that they used Cytowave on and he’s been on a regular daily<br />
maintenance program with Cytowave since then. He hasn’t missed a show and<br />
he’s never missed a competition. “We’ve been able to maintain the leg, keep<br />
him strong and sound, no medications or pain killers and make sure the horse<br />
is sound and ready to compete and we’ve been able to show him throughout<br />
the year at different venues and that’s really, really helped and that’s been for<br />
us the main selling point. We had a specific injury that we worried about and<br />
Cytowave has allowed us to keep the horse in competition comfortably.”<br />
Cytowave does <strong>cover</strong> a lot of<br />
ground, whereas many modalities<br />
are effective and address one<br />
issue, Cytowave is flexible enough<br />
to address fractures, tears, inflammation<br />
and pain relief.<br />
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Healing Naturally<br />
Marcus came to Cytowave<br />
by way of Arlene White<br />
o f t h e A n i m a l Re h a b<br />
Institute in Loxahatchee,<br />
Florida. A horse owner<br />
had approached her because her horse<br />
had multitple issues and there was no<br />
consensus among the vets treating him<br />
as to what the issue was. No one could<br />
identify why her horse was lame but they<br />
could identify a number of issues. Cellulitus<br />
and a problematic SI were some of<br />
the issues plaguing Marcus. The owner,<br />
Heather, had taken Marcus to a number<br />
of hospitals and specialists in Canada.<br />
She was understandably frustrated at the<br />
thought of losing her beloved Marcus to<br />
conditions they couldn’t even identify.<br />
Arlene provided Cytowave a thick file of<br />
all the treatments and a letter she had<br />
received from Heather. She hoped that<br />
Cytowave could help. Cytowave reached<br />
out to Heather and offered a unit for her<br />
to use. Heather began treatments and the<br />
progress was slow but noticeable. Heather<br />
continued the treatments and sent Cytowave<br />
weekly reports on his progress,<br />
all guardedly optimistic. Her last checkup<br />
with Cytowave consisted of video of<br />
Marcus jumping, something he has never<br />
done before in his life. And this from her<br />
veterinarian:<br />
“There appears to be differences in both<br />
the left and right SI joint spaces from July<br />
to September<br />
– There is mineralization in the left jt on<br />
the Sept. exam which was not present (or<br />
not seen) in July<br />
– The right joint had a large mineralization<br />
(osteophyte) in July, which is not<br />
readily visible in the Sept. exam and the jt<br />
space appears more normal on the Sept.<br />
exam, compared to the July images.”<br />
There are numerous Cytowave success stories across the equine<br />
landscape.<br />
MORIAH<br />
This is one of the worst lesions that<br />
Cytowave had ever seen - 70% of the<br />
horse’s tendon was torn and after six<br />
weeks of treatment, the owner was getting<br />
frustrated with the lack of visable<br />
results. Finally, after eight weeks of<br />
daily one hour treatements, the swelling<br />
and inflammation subsided and the<br />
injury healed well enough to begin<br />
rehabilitation. After 13 weeks, she was<br />
out in the pasture exercising and today<br />
enjoys a normal life as a retired equine<br />
athlete.<br />
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Grady and his 80% Tear<br />
Another anguished call from another upset owner. Desperate for help, they approached Cytowave. Grady had suffered<br />
a horrible tear and things weren’t looking so good for Grady. You can see how swollen the leg is before treatments were<br />
started. We think the email below from the owner sums up her experience with Cytowave.<br />
“Omg- sorry - still processing!! Dr Nancy said the Cytowave DEFINITELY works!!!<br />
She is a 1 woman Dynamo & asked me to get memory sticks & will download all Grady’s ultrasounds onto that & we will<br />
send it to you. Prob take a few days to a week. Trying to nail down PRP appt. My “gut”- instinct was “ validated”!!!! Amazing.<br />
Thank you so much.. I knew my miracle horse Grady was coming home to me. Now he will come home sooner !<br />
We expect to be tack walking April/<strong>March</strong>!!! I do believe in Miracles. I do, I do, I do!!!”<br />
Always & Forever,<br />
Nancy & Grady<br />
THREE CARD MONTE<br />
Monte was adopted by Cytowave when he incurred a very serious bowed tendon<br />
(lesion or cavity within the tendon) which extended fully 60% of the tendon<br />
length. The owner knew his racing days were over and he thought him worthless<br />
and gave him up.<br />
Since his Cytowave treatments, Monte has not only<br />
re<strong>cover</strong>ed, he has found a new home and he is now barrel<br />
racing after two years of mending. The pictures to<br />
the left and right are after being treated with Cytowave.<br />
Not bad for a horse that would have been euthanized<br />
had Cytowave not stepped in to help heal him.<br />
You can read more about Monte at www.cytowave.com<br />
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Mikala Gundersen<br />
TOP DRESSAGE RIDERS GET RESULTS WITH CY-<br />
TOP EARNING DRESSAGE RIDER 2015<br />
Mikala Mintere Gundersen hails from Denmark and when we caught up with her,<br />
she was riding My Lady at the CDI World Global Dressage festival in <strong>Wellington</strong>,<br />
Florida. Mikala and My Lady won the Grand Prix with seventy three percent. At<br />
that time, it was the biggest win for them and they were quite thrilled with the<br />
results.<br />
AVID CYTOWAVE USER<br />
Mikala said, “Cytowave on My Lady for maintenance to keep her legs fit and<br />
healthy and tight and I think it really works well. We’ve used it on other horses in<br />
the stable who had injuries and I’ve seen really good results with the Cytowave<br />
so now I use it on my top competition horses as maintenance. Just part of the<br />
therapy we use to keep the horses fit at this level.”<br />
THOUGHTS ON CYTOWAVE<br />
“I think it’s a great product and I’ve seen really, really great results with the<br />
Cytowave. On one of our horses, I’ve seen an injury that almost healed completely<br />
in two months. It’s very easy to see in the ultrasounds how the fibers are<br />
growing together…much faster than if you did not use it. We know the tendon<br />
injuries take a long, long time to heal and we’ve seen tendons heal very, very<br />
quickly from using the Cytowave and this is why I use it as a daily therapy for my<br />
good horses to keep them strong.”<br />
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MIKALA WAS THE TOP EARNING<br />
COMPETITOR AT THE WEF ADEQUAN<br />
GAMES IN 2015<br />
ASevere tendon and<br />
ligament lesions can require<br />
a horse to have<br />
12 months or more of<br />
total re<strong>cover</strong>y time. Cytowave<br />
Equine Therapy dramatically<br />
reduces re<strong>cover</strong>y time so your horse<br />
is back to their peak performance as<br />
quickly as possible. Cytowave can typically<br />
reduce re<strong>cover</strong>y time from moderate<br />
to severe tendon and ligament<br />
injuries by 5 months or more.<br />
Cytowave treatment produces<br />
amplified natural signals that are used<br />
by the body in the injury repair process<br />
on a cellular level. This process<br />
dramatically reduces re<strong>cover</strong>y time.<br />
Sport horse owners looking for alternative<br />
solutions for injuries turn to<br />
Cytowave for consistent, natural treatment.<br />
Cytowave takes the difference<br />
between the damaged and nor mal<br />
tissue signals detected from Superconductive<br />
Quantum Interference Device<br />
(SQUID) studies and feeds it back<br />
into the body at a much higher power.<br />
These signals are designed to greatly<br />
increase the natural repair process of<br />
the body.<br />
Danish Olympic rider Bent Jensen,<br />
who owns and oper ates Bent Jensen<br />
Dressage in <strong>Wellington</strong>, has used<br />
Cytowave on his Grand Prix Dressage<br />
Horse. Three months after using Cytowave<br />
on his horse for a tendon tear<br />
Jensen can tell his horse is stronger.<br />
“My veterinarian, Dr. Richard Wheeler<br />
from Palm Beach Equine Clinic, recommended<br />
I use Cytowave on my<br />
horse for a faster re<strong>cover</strong>y, said Jensen.<br />
“After only 5 weeks of therapy, my<br />
horse is completely healed and back<br />
to perform ing. The machine was extremely<br />
easy to use, and I am very happy<br />
with the results.” Cytowave Equine<br />
Therapy has been proven to accelerate<br />
the healing process and re<strong>cover</strong>y<br />
time in various sport horse disciplines.<br />
This advanced therapy has been used<br />
to heal soft tissue injuries, for soreness<br />
and inflammation,and hock trauma.<br />
Mikala Gundersen, owner of<br />
Horse Gym USA and top Dressage<br />
rider and trainer for over 25 years, has<br />
been using Cytowave on two horses<br />
with minor tendon injuries for two<br />
months. “At my level, I cannot have<br />
a horse out of work for a year. I have<br />
never seen a horse heal so quickly from an injury<br />
like I have from using Cytowave,”·said Gundersen.<br />
She has had ultrasounds on her horses before<br />
and after treatment to show how well it works. “I<br />
have taken the ultrasounds to five differ ent vets<br />
and they are all amazed at the results.<br />
The best part of this type of treatment is<br />
that I am able to keep the horses in training while<br />
they are healing. Dr. Wheeler suggested I try this<br />
treatment and he has a good eye and feel for<br />
what a horse needs. He is the best veterinarian<br />
for a sport horses.”<br />
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CPL<br />
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is no longer<br />
a death sentence<br />
CPL used to be a death sentence for a horse. A new<br />
treatment has stopped the progress of this painful<br />
affliction and gives hope that it is a potential cure.<br />
Emily and Mike Jewell own<br />
a small farm in southern<br />
Indiana and they breed<br />
and raise Friesian and Andalusian<br />
horses. At any<br />
given time they care for 10 or more<br />
horses, a few of which are Friesian<br />
and Andalusian mares. They stand<br />
two stallions, an Andalusian and their<br />
pride and joy Friesian stallion Keegan.<br />
Keegan is the celebrity in their area<br />
and has appeared in several magazines<br />
such as Horse Illustrated and<br />
Horse and Rider. Keegan and some of<br />
their other horses have been used in<br />
several Farnam ads. Keegan has really<br />
made a name for himself, and Grace<br />
and Beauty farms, with all of his accomplishments.<br />
Emily understands that when<br />
it comes to horses, there is no shortage<br />
of maladies that they can suffer<br />
from. For example, Emily noticed<br />
something was wrong with one of her<br />
Freisians when they were around 5 or<br />
6 years old.<br />
Small nodules had appeared<br />
on the horse’s rear legs, just behind<br />
the hoofs. At first Emily thought the<br />
horse had scratches, but when the<br />
condition worsened, she researched<br />
and dis<strong>cover</strong>ed that this was the early<br />
stage of Chronic Progressive Lymphedema<br />
(CPL), a lymphatic disorder<br />
that many draft horses, including<br />
Friesians are predisposed to.<br />
Emily began treating her Friesian<br />
horse to slow the advancement of<br />
CPL but results were not positive.<br />
In spite of her efforts, the symptoms<br />
spread from the right rear leg to the<br />
left rear leg, then progressed to the<br />
two front legs.<br />
She began to fear the inevitable -<br />
since there is no known cure, most<br />
heavy bodied horses with CPL have<br />
to be euthanized around 15 years old.<br />
“When I said “inflammation<br />
reduction,” her<br />
ears really perked up<br />
a bit.”<br />
By chance, Emily was approached<br />
at a horse show by<br />
John Dovenmuehle who told<br />
her about Cytowave. “When<br />
he said “inflammation reduction”<br />
I really perked up,”<br />
Emily said.<br />
At this point, she was<br />
ready to try anything to slow<br />
down the progress of this relentless,<br />
inflammation based<br />
disease. Cytowave did not<br />
have a specific CPL based set<br />
of therapy signals, but it did<br />
have a robust pain/inflammation<br />
program that had<br />
proven effective with other<br />
inflammation based conditions,<br />
including cellulitis. “<br />
“At first, I didn’t know what<br />
to think. We had tried everything<br />
up to this point but<br />
really didn’t have anything to<br />
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CPL<br />
lose.” Emily stated.<br />
On April 27th, 2016, Emily began<br />
to use Cytowave treatments exclusively<br />
on her horse. After only 4 days of<br />
treatments, Emily noticed the inflammation<br />
had decreased. After the first<br />
week, the inflammation in the rear<br />
legs and the Cannon bone size had<br />
decreased as well. The nodules and<br />
the folds were softer, not as hard to the<br />
touch and the Cytowave boots were<br />
easier to wrap around his legs due to<br />
the decreased swelling.<br />
The shift in her horse’s demeanor<br />
underscored that positive<br />
physical changes were taking place.<br />
“He was more relaxed and comfortable.<br />
When I let him out in the pen,<br />
he was more active, running and<br />
bucking,” Emily said.<br />
After eight (8) days, the inflammation<br />
and Canon bone swelling<br />
continued to decrease. The folds in<br />
the rear legs were not as thick and<br />
were separating. Folds and nodules<br />
were softer and more pliable. There<br />
was still some dampness and oily<br />
feeling in the creases of the back hoof<br />
area but overall, the lesions were<br />
drier and reducing in size. And for<br />
the first time in weeks she was able to<br />
massage his legs without any discomfort.<br />
“He really began enjoying getting his<br />
legs massaged after his treatments,”<br />
Emily continued. “Overall he just<br />
seems really happy. I did not realize<br />
how much the disease had slowly<br />
robbed him of his spirit over the<br />
years because it was so gradual. Once<br />
he started feeling better, I realized I<br />
was getting my old horse back!”<br />
In the span of 10 days, measurements<br />
showed that the swelling had been<br />
substantially reduced. The Canon<br />
bone showed the most dramatic reduction<br />
in size, with the left leg going<br />
from 12 ½” to 10 ½”.<br />
On May 11th, Dr. Royal evaluated<br />
Emily’s horse and he noted that the<br />
Cytowave treatments had drastically<br />
reduced the swelling and inflammation.<br />
He said her horse seemed to<br />
be in very good health and his BAR<br />
(Bright, Alert, Responsive) was<br />
excellent. He was in very good<br />
health, sound, with little sensitivity in<br />
the folds of his legs.<br />
“They were<br />
skeptical at<br />
first. Once<br />
they started<br />
to see results,<br />
it wasn’t too<br />
long before<br />
we heard<br />
from the<br />
Fenway<br />
Foundation.”<br />
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After twenty one (21) days of treatments, Emily continued<br />
to see positive results in slowing the progression<br />
of the CPL condition. The size of the folds and nodules<br />
decreased and lesions in the rear legs were drier and<br />
smaller. Pain and sensitivity in the folds of his legs lessened.<br />
His overall health improved and it was apparent<br />
that her horse felt much better.<br />
“At first he stamped his feet and was a bit agitated until<br />
he got used to the boots,” Emily said. “Now it’s a walk in<br />
the park for him and he really enjoys the treatments.”<br />
Her horse will continue with treatments and hopefully<br />
completely re<strong>cover</strong>. As for Emily? She was so impressed<br />
with the results that she is now working for Cytowave<br />
to help promote their new technology.<br />
“There is a hope that we’re<br />
going to be the cure for<br />
this terrible disease.”<br />
Richard Parker<br />
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Dr. BARRY<br />
EISAMAN<br />
1<br />
2<br />
3<br />
What do you like<br />
most about Cytowave?<br />
I think the results. The chance to rehab<br />
some of these injuries successfully.<br />
Where, as in past decades, with many of<br />
these type of injuries, we were looking at<br />
a 50/50 chance of getting them back to<br />
full athletic training.<br />
What do you use it for?<br />
We use it for rehab, rehabbing or assisting<br />
to rehab significant soft tissue tears, and<br />
most of those are tendon or suspensory<br />
tears.<br />
Any advice for those considering<br />
Cytowave?<br />
Just to encourage folks to view the technology<br />
as a miracle shortcut to get back<br />
to the races faster. To view the technology<br />
as a miraculously wonderful modality<br />
to speed up the healing of these lesions<br />
and a big piece of getting these horses<br />
back successfully, not necessarily quicker.<br />
“In my experiences with the technology so far, on a n<br />
either suspensory structures or tendon structures t<br />
noticeably increases the speed with which the core le<br />
all size of the injured structure reduces. Especially th<br />
it’s miraculous how quickly this process moves it alo<br />
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ew lesion or fresh tear of<br />
he technology definitely,<br />
sion fills in and the overat<br />
first couple of months,<br />
ng.”<br />
Quality of healing and length of<br />
rehabilitation is always an issue<br />
with horses and decidng when<br />
they are ready to come back is<br />
always a judgement call. Rehabilitation<br />
periods of course will vary depending<br />
on the severity of the injury. Taking shortcuts<br />
on rehabilitation will almost always result in another<br />
injury, frequently worse than the original.<br />
Top professional equestrian competitors and<br />
veterinarians understand that when it comes<br />
to rehabilitation, you should always err on the<br />
side of caution. “I think if you try to shortcut the<br />
process, you’re going to have many horses that<br />
are going to have a recurrence of injury because<br />
the injury wasn’t healed well enough to handle<br />
those kind of stresses.”<br />
Dr. Eisaman has a well refined sense of the<br />
rehabilitation process. “I think the basic fundamentals<br />
would be it varies with the injury you’re<br />
treating. Some are more serious and require a<br />
lot more time and others are less serious and<br />
can get back to the races quicker. So it involves<br />
some professional quarterbacking to make those<br />
decisions. But if it’s a serious lesion, it requires<br />
time, give it the time. And most of those soft<br />
tissue lesions, after they fill in, a tendon tear or<br />
significant suspensory ligament tear, they then<br />
require light exercise be it turn out time or jogging<br />
under tack, or doing things as the healing<br />
process is maturing and finishing and getting<br />
hardened to be able to withstand the stresses<br />
they will have in race training.”<br />
Dr. Eisaman routinely has over two hundred<br />
race horses coming through his property<br />
each year. His belief in the Cytowave technology<br />
isn’t based on how quickly he has been able<br />
to get horses back to the track, it’s on the quality<br />
of the healing that he is seeing. Dr. Eisaman<br />
said “So far it’s been excellent. And I think it provides<br />
an end product that is stronger and better<br />
healed than time or mother nature would do on<br />
their own. I think that is the exciting part of it, it’s<br />
better at the end of the road. It’s quicker for the<br />
initial healing process but don’t short cut things<br />
and over train your horse too soon thinking it’s<br />
ready.”<br />
Cytowave has produced intriguing results<br />
and with more veterinarians embracing the<br />
technology, more studies will be done to show<br />
exactly the impact it is having on the equine<br />
world.<br />
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an interview with<br />
RICHARD PARKER<br />
The inventor of Cytowave isn’t resting on his laurels. He’s already hard at<br />
work on his next high-tech invention.<br />
Richard Parker, t h e i n ve n t o r o f<br />
Cytowave, is thrilled with the<br />
results his tissue derived healing<br />
technolgy has enjoyed. It<br />
seemed only logical to him that<br />
if you want to heal a specific tissue type,<br />
you’d have to communicate with that tissue<br />
using the same set of wave forms that the<br />
tissue generates.<br />
The key he said is the ability of the<br />
body to identify and recognize the incoming<br />
signal as one of its own. By readily accepting<br />
this “healing” signal, the body is kickstarting<br />
the healing process.<br />
“Many people in the equine industry<br />
tend to think of us as some sort of Voodoo<br />
in a box. I don’t blame them since they’re<br />
bombarded every month with products that<br />
claim to be a panacea,” Richard said.<br />
Many horse owners, trainers and competitors<br />
are understandably quite skeptical.<br />
While the exact mechanisms of what<br />
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type of changes Cytowave is having on tissue<br />
is unknown, it’s obvious that it is working.<br />
“I’ve had numerous queries on what<br />
we’re doing, but honestly, we don’t fully<br />
understand it,” Richard said. “We can guess<br />
the obvious from the success we have, improving<br />
circulation, taking away inflammation<br />
and detritus from injuries sites, all the<br />
usual culprits.”<br />
“Veterinarians who rely on data, which<br />
is most of them, can get frustrated by our<br />
lack of controlled studies,” Richard said.<br />
When Richard points out that there is no<br />
documentation on how many of the modalities<br />
actually work, it generally helps<br />
them understand that healing, in general, is<br />
poorly understood. “Scientists can’t completely<br />
explain healing...and when you understand<br />
and accept that, it’s easier to open<br />
your mind.”<br />
Richard has spent a great deal of his<br />
life involved in research and it’s going<br />
to take a great deal of money, hard<br />
work and investigation to really define<br />
not only what changes are taking place<br />
in tissue, but how.<br />
CytoWave technology takes the<br />
actual electromagnetic signal given<br />
off by the body at an injury site, stores<br />
and then amplifies that signal before<br />
re-admitting to the subject so as to<br />
accelerate the healing process. This<br />
“jump-start” occurs because the signal<br />
applied to the injury is very similar to<br />
the same signal the horse produces.<br />
That signal, therefore, is readily accepted<br />
and processed in such a manner<br />
as to accelerate the re<strong>cover</strong>y. “Because<br />
we use tissue-specific signals,<br />
we’re able to achieve results unlike any<br />
other technology out there.”
WELLINGTON EQUESTRIAN // FEBRUARY - MARCH 2017<br />
“Morphologie will<br />
compliment Cytowave<br />
and help provide the<br />
undeniable proof of the<br />
healing power of<br />
Cytowave.”<br />
WHAT IS AN “STS ” SIGNAL?<br />
A SQUID (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) makes it possible<br />
to dis<strong>cover</strong> natural magnetic field waveforms associated with cellular activity.<br />
As the waveform is theorized to contain the intelligence of the biological<br />
functions taking place locally, it is also proposed that detection and generation<br />
of the proper waveform associated with a given healing process would<br />
be an essential component of an optimal waveform delivery device designed<br />
to accelerate the healing process by delivering that same waveform, in an<br />
amplified form. Richard coined the phrase “Squid Therapy Signal” to refer to<br />
the tissue derived signals he developed using a SQUID machine.<br />
This is detailed in the paper from Parker and Marko Markov, PhD<br />
titled “SQUID-Based Electromagnetic Fields – a Plausible Tool for Treatment<br />
of Tendon Injuries presented at the Karolinska Institut, Department of Molecular<br />
Medicine and Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2014.<br />
MORPHOLOGIE LLC<br />
Morphologie, also founded by Richard Parker, has developed an advanced<br />
mathematical based imaging APP that will show the current status of an injury<br />
site within minutes. When an ultrasound is performed on a horse, the<br />
images are uploaded to a cloud based server, processed, then returned to<br />
the phone APP in the form of a 3D image.<br />
Three hundred images are needed (10 seconds of ultrasound) to<br />
derive the mathmatical data and build the 3D image. Once you have the<br />
image, you can rotate, crop and zoom to look at individual fiber bundles.<br />
Richard said, “This will revolutionize diagnostics out in the field.”<br />
About<br />
the<br />
inventor<br />
3D image created from scan<br />
Chief Technical Officer Richard Parker has<br />
over 35 years of business experience and<br />
has been awarded the central patent on the<br />
CytoWave process. Richard is a former computer<br />
microprocessor designer and has also<br />
sponsored his own successful companies in<br />
real estate development, and in the energy<br />
field. Richard has focused his attention on<br />
the field of biomagnetic therapy for the past<br />
20 years, where he is a frequently invited<br />
speaker at international venues and has published<br />
14 papers in major scientific journals.<br />
Richard earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering<br />
from the University of Florida and an M.S.<br />
in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia<br />
Institute of Technology.<br />
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The Long<br />
Road BACK<br />
Marcus was in bad shape<br />
and his owner knew it.<br />
Heather had traveled<br />
across numerous provinces<br />
in Canada and the<br />
veterinarians and specialists were as puzzled<br />
as she was. He had numerous issues<br />
and no one could pin point the cause of<br />
any of them. Cytowave came across Marcus’<br />
case via a conversation with Arlene<br />
White, she of the Animal Rehab Institute<br />
in South Florida. The owner of a horse<br />
had contacted her seeking help because<br />
she had been unable to find out the cause<br />
of his lameness, nor had they been able<br />
to treat it successfully. Phenylbutazone,<br />
Penicillin, Dex, steroid ointment, Baytril,<br />
acupuncture, Methacarbamol, Thermotex<br />
blanket, Previcox, Pentosan - those are<br />
just some of the medications that were<br />
prescribed to Marcus. Marcus has been<br />
through a lot in an attempt to figure out<br />
why he had come up lame, as well as deal<br />
with a string of other issues.<br />
Heather started using Cytowave to<br />
see if that would have a positive impact<br />
on Marcus’ health. It didn’t take long for<br />
Heather to notice a few things shortly<br />
after beginning a treatment regime with<br />
Cytowave.<br />
Heather noted that Marcus no longer<br />
“danced” around in the cross ties while<br />
being treated. He stood still, was quiet<br />
and seemed much more relaxed than he<br />
had been.<br />
She also stated that “he no longer<br />
tries to bite at my arm when girthing up<br />
the saddle and he doesn’t grind his teeth<br />
with saddling.” The changes were subtle<br />
but cumulatively they added up to something<br />
positive going on with Marcus.<br />
When the farrier came out to work<br />
on him, he noticed that Marcus was very<br />
relaxed and stood nicely when he had to<br />
reset his hind shoes. In the past, Marcus<br />
was very sore and he didn’t want anyone<br />
to lift his hind feet.<br />
Since the onset of his lymphangitis/<br />
lameness, they’d been resting Marcus<br />
for long periods of time. He was sore<br />
mostly, but since they began Cytowave<br />
treatments on July 31st, he began to behave<br />
much better and his soundness has<br />
improved. While not 100%, Marcus has<br />
been moving well since the onset of lymphangitis.<br />
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Heather still marvels at the difference<br />
she sees since they started treating<br />
Marcus with Cytowave. “He’s 90% sound,<br />
which is the best he’s been since the lymphangitis<br />
started at the end of January.”<br />
Cytowave is proving to be an excellent<br />
tool in treating the major inflammation<br />
based diseases such as cellulitis and<br />
lymphangitis in particular.<br />
For now, Heather is extremely happy<br />
that she has gotten her horse back, something<br />
that she didn’t think would happen.<br />
“I am happy that I have my horse back and<br />
training better than ever!”<br />
Marcus continues healing and he’s<br />
storming back to activity after more than<br />
8 months of being lame.<br />
Heather was extremely excited that<br />
he had begun not only exercising again<br />
,but he was now jumping - something<br />
that he has only done a few times prior to<br />
becoming lame.
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TREATMENT LOG<br />
Even though Heather started seeing results quickly, it’s best<br />
to keep in mind that horses are notoriously slow to heal. To<br />
give you an idea of Marcus’ treatments, here are the first<br />
three weeks of his treatment schedule.<br />
July<br />
20th - 30 mins inflammatory<br />
21st - 30 mins inflammatory<br />
22nd - 60 mins back<br />
23rd - 60 mins back<br />
24th - 60 mins back<br />
25th - 30 mins inflammatory (in the AM with the<br />
vets) 60 mins back in the PM<br />
26th - 60 mins back<br />
27th - 60 mins back<br />
28th - 60 mins back<br />
29th - 30 mins inflammatory<br />
30th - 60 mins back<br />
31st - 60 mins fracture<br />
August<br />
1st - 60 min fracture<br />
2nd - 60 min fracture<br />
3rd - 60 min fracture<br />
4th - 60 min fracture<br />
5th - 60 min fracture<br />
6th - 60 min back<br />
7th - 60 mins back<br />
Pictured above -<br />
Marcus jumping for the<br />
first time in his life; Below,<br />
Marcus receiving<br />
his back and leg treatments.<br />
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WELLINGTON EQUESTRIAN // FEBRUARY - MARCH 2017<br />
Dr. Dan Moore<br />
Pastures give access to much needed nutrients<br />
Grass muzzles are a hot item these days. I see them<br />
at almost every equine event I attend. Truthfully,<br />
I almost laughed the first time I saw one. Then<br />
I thought to myself “that is a great idea”, many<br />
horse owners today really need them. But why?<br />
For thousands of years wild horses have lived on grass alone<br />
and typically they ate all they wanted. There was no one to stop<br />
them, turn them out for only a few hours at a time or worse yet<br />
MUZZLE them. Today, colic, allergies, metabolic issues, laminitis,<br />
hoof and other health issues are often associated with eating<br />
too much grass. What is different about today’s grass or perhaps<br />
what is different about the horse? Obviously a lot has changed! If<br />
we truly look at the way it was and, “mimic” what’s natural, perh<br />
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 .<br />
Today’s species of grasses are totally different from the<br />
past. Most horses today on pasture only have one or two varieties<br />
of grass – usually timothy, orchard grass with some degree<br />
of clover and fescue. In the wild, they had access to vast areas<br />
of grass and abundant species. Equally important was access to<br />
other plants and herbs. Today they eat what they have access<br />
to in the spaces we confine them to. Most species of grass (and<br />
even grain) today are genetically modified – a controversy and<br />
discussion all in itself. By being able to “pick and choose” what<br />
they needed, horses received a balance of nutrients.<br />
For instance, as I am sure you know, most horses will<br />
chew on tree bark. Of course it is bad for the trees – totally<br />
inconsequential in the wilderness, but in the back yard pasture,<br />
chewed dead trees look awful! Simple sugars called polysaccharides<br />
and amino acids like methionine and perhaps tannins are<br />
probably what they a re after by eating the trees. Regardless, if<br />
methionine is supplemented most horses have better hooves.<br />
Supplementing simple<br />
polysaccharide<br />
sugars (not refined<br />
complex table sugar<br />
or syrup) will often<br />
help the gut (sometimes<br />
stop cribbing<br />
and help ulcers, too)<br />
– the gut being the<br />
source of almost all<br />
p ro b l e m s i n a h o rs e .<br />
One such simple sugar in particular is Arabinogalactan,<br />
obtained from the Western Larch tree. Another is<br />
Mannose – from the Aloe plant. The Native American Indians<br />
and “grandmas” everywhere have used these substances for centuries.<br />
In other parts of the world they may have used Noni fruit<br />
or Pomegranate or whatever was native to the area – and if the<br />
horses that were there had access to them, be assured they ate<br />
the bark, fruit (or whatever) too!<br />
This is one of the reasons<br />
supplements are so important today- horses just can’t get all<br />
they need from the typical diets wegive them, and the one or<br />
two species of grass they graze just doesn’t provide all they may<br />
need. There are most likely many ingredients or micronutrients<br />
that we have not yet dis<strong>cover</strong>ed. I believe we will someday classify<br />
polysaccharides as “ESSENTIAL” polysaccharides, just like<br />
there are essential amino acids, and essential fatty acids now.<br />
NOTE: The Natural Horse Vet was the first<br />
to introduce Grape Seed to the horse<br />
supplement industry. The year was<br />
1999! What would now be considered<br />
many years ago, an article in USA<br />
Today described a revolution in the<br />
pharmaceutical industry.<br />
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WELLINGTON EQUESTRIAN // FEBRUARY-MARCH<br />
Goday high fat is “in” but again we must be careful. The easy thing<br />
to do is buy cheap fat like REFINED or partially hydrogenated oils<br />
(corn oil for instance). The problem with any refined oil is that all<br />
the “goody” is filtered out and sold for other purposes. Hydrogenated<br />
oils are more stable and less likely to spoils or go rancid,<br />
which is why they are used in almost every snack food, but they<br />
actually harden and damage cells within the body ad make tissue<br />
less pliable. This can actually make a situation like insulin resistance<br />
or metabolic disease (which are often the clinical problems<br />
that trigger the need for fats to be supplemented in the first<br />
place) to be even more of a problem. “Hardened” cells don’t respond<br />
to insulin and other “metabolic reactions” like more pliable<br />
cells would. Over time “hydrogenation” causes premature aging<br />
because more and more insulin must be produced and the body’s<br />
cells become more and more damaged.<br />
Insulin helps regulate sugar. The grain we feed our horses (corn,<br />
especially, and molasses) and the “richer”, single variety grasses<br />
in our pastures cause more and more insulin to be secreted.<br />
With time, this causes “insulin resistance” – requiring more and<br />
more insulin to get the job done. The higher the resting insulin<br />
overall, the quicker all species age and subsequently die – period!<br />
High resting insulin is rarely detected because usually just blood<br />
glucose is checked. Simply relying on blood glucose (sugar) levels<br />
alone is not enough – sugar or blood glucose can be normal<br />
but resting insulin levels can be extremely elevated- even high<br />
enough to kill you or your horse.<br />
ed. Today we fortify the feeds with various minerals and fortify our<br />
pastures with fertilizer.<br />
The problem here is that we may actually be causing an imbalance<br />
of nutrition. Mineral supplements, though well intentioned,<br />
may give them too much of what they don’t need. Hoof supplements<br />
are especially bad for this – massive amounts often, chosen<br />
by man and based on an RDA (recommended daily allowance<br />
standard) that is 15 years old or more. Natural minerals and salt<br />
like colloidal minerals and sea salt (often from desert sources that<br />
used to be the ocean millions of years ago) contain other micronutrients<br />
as well, and are balanced by mother nature, not by man.<br />
The confusing issue here is that if you compare mineral amounts<br />
to man-made products, natural sources often look like they<br />
contain very low levels. But what they do contain is so much more<br />
usable or bio-available that it packs a much greater, yet balanced<br />
punch! They literally contain every nutrient and mineral that<br />
was once in the “living oceans”. Often with manmade our horses<br />
over-consume what they don’t need while trying to get what they<br />
Many horses (and people) are insulin resistant with high resting<br />
levels of insulin, but because the body is such a miraculous machine<br />
it is still keeping the sugar normal. Most fat and overweight<br />
“easy keepers” are insulin resistant.<br />
Certainly hypothyroid, Cushings, and chronic recurring laminitis<br />
or foundered horses fit this category as well. Lush green grass or<br />
stress (as in people) is often associated with, and generally what<br />
get blamed for acute occurrences – but the underlying metabolic<br />
situation is usually at cause. Horses need good fats, not sugars!<br />
By now it should be clear that except in a free wild range situation<br />
with thousands of acres, it is impossible to have a perfect pasture<br />
today – but there is a “next to perfect” answer to the perfect<br />
pasture question! A perfect pasture is one that has a bucket (free<br />
choice access) of natural salt and naturally sourced minerals hanging<br />
in it – AT ALL TIMES. And I stress NATURAL source here and at<br />
ALL times. Even white salt and most minerals are chemical, often<br />
other industry’s leftovers, full of heavy metals (lead, cadmium, arsenic,<br />
aluminum, mercury). And salt blocks are just simply useless<br />
because horses are not lickers – they can not get all of what they<br />
need from blocks -period! They just can’t lick fast enough.<br />
In the wild, horses have access to all types of salt and minerals<br />
where they can pick and choose and balance themselves as need<br />
do need. AND what they really need may not even be in the mix<br />
because man is not aware of it – Natural is better!<br />
Pasture horses must have access to loose salt and minerals at all<br />
times. If they don’t, they can colic, founder, abort and die almost<br />
without warning. It all comes back to the health of the horses’ gut.<br />
Any sudden change, as we well know, can be disastrous. Obvious<br />
concerns are getting too much grain or sudden exposure to lush<br />
green grass – but a weather change without free access to loose<br />
salt and minerals can be just as deadly to a pasture horse.<br />
Grass is a living, breathing organism (it just breathes carbon dioxide<br />
rather than oxygen) and it changes hour to hour. If the grass<br />
“thinks” it is going to die or has less chance of survival, it conserves<br />
and prepares – just like we would.<br />
Conservation of water would be a likely action. Grass does this<br />
by actually drawing potassium up from the ground, and if the<br />
soil is heavily fertilized, it can draw a lot, because a major part of<br />
fertilizer is potassium. Potassium allows the plant to attract more<br />
water. This is good for farmers who sell hay and crops by the<br />
pound but bad for the actual nutritional value because the grass,<br />
crop or whatever, is mostly just water. Devastation can occur if<br />
horses, cattle or other creatures are exposed to too much potassium<br />
at one time.<br />
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“THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT<br />
WE MAY ACTUALLY BE CAUSING AN<br />
IMBALANCE OF NUTRITION. MIN-<br />
ERAL SUPPLEMENTS, THOUGH WELL<br />
INTENTIONED, MAY GIVE THEM TOO<br />
MUCH OF WHAT THEY DON’T NEED.”<br />
You may be familiar with Grass Tetany and Milk Fever, and the sudden death associated with its occurrence. These were once thought to<br />
be magnesium and calcium deficiencies. We now know it is from high potassium forages and grasses. Similar situations causing abortions<br />
and gut problems often occur in horses. What happens is that the potassium spikes during cool, we conditions and especially after<br />
long droughts followed by rainfall and rapid growth. Situations like frost and freezing are especially bad – have you ever had horse colic<br />
after a frost? Probably so- –the reason is a sudden mineral change in the grass, not just frozen grass! During these times sodium, calcium<br />
and magnesium decrease, while potassium increases. This spike in potassium is often deadly. A major problem like this occurred in 2001<br />
in the Midwest where reproductive losses occurred in thousands of horses, cattle, sheep and goats. This was severe in Kentucky as well.<br />
Often cattle were found dead just a few hours after frost and freezes. Mineral blocks just cannot provide the minerals fast enough for<br />
such rapid changes in weather. Free choice, loose salt and minerals must be available to pasture horses at all times if such problems are<br />
to be prevented!<br />
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<br />
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.<br />
Force-feeding salt is a viable solution particularly in pregnant mares. This should be in addition to making it readily available free choice.<br />
(Always be sure to put any salt product near readily available water).<br />
One further point is that fescue alone is usually blamed for abortions in mares when it is actually the fungus like organisms on the<br />
fescue that cause the problems. BUT again it is elevated potassium that generally makes these organisms more deadly! The bottom line<br />
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<br />
has been grown on heavily fertilized fields – especially for pregnant mares.<br />
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<br />
that are salt based. Salt fertilizers are destroying our environment as well as our soils. Year after year of fertilizer use kills beneficial earthworms<br />
that oxygenate the soil with their tunnels. Lack of oxygen kills the soil just like it would us.<br />
Fortunately, there are “time tested” ways to fertilize that are often even more economical and certainly more beneficial. Unfortunately<br />
because of all the “politics” involved, major universities seldom teach their use. One of the healthiest ways to make good pastures and<br />
again, often the most economical is to heavily lime your fields twice per year. Lime is Calcium Carbonate. Calcium keeps the soil basic<br />
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<br />
you have many weeds at all growing in your pasture, you need lime. Don’t expect immediate results however, because it take time for<br />
the lime to be absorbed and utilized. But it will help tremendously over time.<br />
“AVOID THE<br />
TYPICAL TYPES<br />
OF FERTILIZERS -<br />
THOSE THAT ARE<br />
SALT BASED.”
While your pastures are improving, it is important to supplement the diet. Most<br />
horses I have found, at least in the eastern US, are calcium deficient. Typically, soils<br />
in the western United States contain more calcium – which is why the buffalo<br />
once flourished there and not in the east. Tremendous calcium is needed for the<br />
buffalo’s huge bones. For many years now, ring neck pheasant have not grown in<br />
the southeaster United States either, simply because there is not enough calcium<br />
in the soil to support their egg shells. Most horses have plenty of phosphorus in<br />
their diets, so I don’t worry too much about balancing the calcium to phosphorous<br />
ratio. An exception would be older horses, which occasionally can use more<br />
phosphorus.<br />
The answer to perfect pastures is simple – do not use fertilizer and if you do, use<br />
liquid, non salt types, plenty of lime for the pasture and keep a bucket full of<br />
NATURAL salt and minerals readily available to your horses at all times! Consider<br />
the use of crude unrefined essential fatty acids because horses today just can’t get<br />
them naturally and because they are so important to overall health.<br />
One final suggestion: If your horse does not have access to grass, such as in the<br />
winter, or if the grass if poor, always supplement with Beta Carotene. Green grass<br />
generally provided plenty of Beta Carotene (vitamin A, by the way, is not enough)<br />
but hay provides hardly any. Beta Carotene is crucial for reproductive health,<br />
lactation, immune function and hundreds of other benefits. I believe it too, will be<br />
considered “essential” in the future.<br />
“All horses especially those pastured horses must have access to loose (preferably<br />
naturally sourced) salt and minerals at all times! In my humble opinion, our<br />
#1 most-provided product RED CAL, is the single most healthy thing you can give<br />
your horse to prevent problems. Just hang a bucket on a fence post and make<br />
sure there is always some in it.”<br />
Dr. Dan Moore [DVM] TheNaturalHorseVet.com