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WELLINGTON EQUESTRIAN // FEBRUARY-MARCH MCLAINWARD “CONTROL INFLAMMATION AND YOU PREVENT INJURIES.” 6 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 re<strong>cover</strong>ed.” 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. 7
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