Horse Massage

Overview

The PEMAG Mitts are a therapeutic, multi-directional, massage, and grooming tool. They are designed to proficiently enhance a horse’s performance by relieving tension so they may move more freely and comfortably.

Massage and daily grooming with the PEMAG mitts helps to keep or restore joints and muscles to full working capacity. Small muscle injuries can build up over a few months before they become apparent. You can gain significant health and performance benefits from regular massage therapy for your horse, especially after a period of box rest or restricted work.

Performance Enhancement & Rehabilitation

Massage and daily grooming with the PEMAG Mitts helps to keep or restore joints and muscles to full working capacity. Small muscle injuries can build up over a few months before they become apparent. The horse may have a change in their attitude, show signs of decreased performance or lameness by which time they may have caused more serious injury.
You can gain significant health and performance benefits from regular massage therapy for your horse, especially after a period of box rest or restricted work.
Massage therapy helps prevent muscle atrophy and prompt attention to ‘minor’ muscle injuries will not only enhances a horse’s performance but also may prevent future problems.

For a well-conditioned horse, massage therapy should be performed before and after a competition to prevent injuries and loss of mobility. After physical exertion, massaging your horse will minimise poll and whither tension and general muscle stiffness whilst speeding up repair to tissue damage (an inevitable result of physical stress and fatigue).

• The design harnesses the knowledge of decades of physiotherapy to create a highly functional and time saving pair of massage mitts with numerous therapeutic applications. They reduce the impact of hours of massage on the groomer’s hands. After using the mitts on your horse for just a couple of minutes you will notice changes to the quality of the tissue in the area that you are massaging, as the connective tissue begins to soften and relax.

• The nodules on the mitts provide a brief mechanical stretch affecting the skin, soft tissue, sub-dermal structures and deeper fascia. This increases localised metabolic and cellular activity in the extra cellular matrix that has been disrupted from the tight fascia and other musculoskeletal dysfunctions. Consequently this remodelling leads to increased functional movement patterns, increased tissue oxygenation and an increase in the horse’s own healing responses.

• You can massage with the mitts using various techniques. You can also adjust the duration and direction to initiate the self-healing and self-regulating physiological responses that change tissue tone.

Practical Applications