Archive for the ‘Equine Health’ Category

Light Therapy for Blood Pressure

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Do you know about a site that specifically suggests how to use light therapy for blood pressure? Thank you. Alan

Hello Alan -

Treating GB1Yours is a complicated question.  Regulating blood pressure in the body is much more complex than helping a specific wound or trauma condition to heal.  But that doesn’t mean that BioScan can’t help.  In fact, buy using the principals of acupuncture to balance the energetic meridians of the body with the BioPack lights, we can assist the body to balance blood pressure, pulse, respiration and other core processes.

The fabulous power of using the BioScan system really shines when using it as Photopuncture - acupuncture with light.  First, scan the entire body with the BioFind to locate energy imbalances.  Strong points of imbalance are almost always located on the energetic meridians.   Then, use the BioPack diodes to balance these blockages.  The results are often quick and dramatic as the body’s ability to regulate and heal itself improves!

Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any more specific questions.  Different meridians will have more of an effect on blood pressure than others (spleen, heart, triple heater).  If you are interested in training that will expand your use of BioScan as Photopuncture, please let me know!

Blessings,

Kay

Kay Aubrey-Chimene, RMT
Let Us Help You Bring Your Animals To Vibrant Health!
Grand Adventures Ranch
Holistic Equine Wellness & Recovery Center
www.GrandAdventuresRanch.com
520.455.0202 or 800.797.8274

16 year old horse with Ring Bone

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Q - I have a 16 year old horse who has ring bone. what can I do to heal him? thank you, Carole

Hi Carole -

I am sorry to hear that your horse has Ring Bone.  I personally have had excellent success using the BioScan products along with proper mineralization and anti-inflammatory products to address both Ring Bone and Side Bone problems.  There are 2 ways in which BioScan products can help.

Tendon Savers around the ankleFor the general horse owner, the BioScan ankle saver or tendon saver (probably the ankle saver - these are specific to the right or left ankles) is the place to start.  Depending upon where on the leg the ring bone is located (high or low).  Use the ankle saver for 20 minutes at a time, at least once and preferably twice a day.

If you have a BioScan therapist in your area, or purchase a full BioScan system, you can use the BioScan system to locate and balance energy blockages throughout the body which may be related to why the ring bone originally occurred.  This will also speed the breakdown of the calcium deposits and healing of the area.

Another tip - give 1 - 2 tsp per day of Ester-C powder to assist the body with assimilating the calcium deposits and cover the bony growths with Dynamite’s Wound Balm daily to help soften and dissolve the ring bone.

Please feel free to email either BioScan or myself with any additional questions!

Blessings,

Kay

Kay Aubrey-Chimene, RMT
Let Us Help You Bring Your Animals To Vibrant Health!
Grand Adventures Ranch
Holistic Equine Wellness & Recovery Center
www.GrandAdventuresRanch.com
520.455.0202 or 800.797.8274

Photopuncture with BioScan saves a life by bringing on gut sounds in severely damaged mare.

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

This weekend, one of our boarders “Santana” a 25 year old Andalusian mare tried to kill herself. She literally slit her throat on a fence and in attempting to get free she impaled her throat on a t-post and ripped the carotid, jugular, trachea and vagal nerve on the left side of her throat. How she lived through it - I have no idea. She should have bled out or choked on her own blood.

After immediately calling the vet - on Sunday - Father’s Day no less - we pumped her full of banamine and after about 30 minutes she decided to head for the barn.  She had also gashed up her medial, ventral (inside, upper) left leg as well as given herself scrapes and cuts over much of her legs and stifles.   Bear in mind that at this point, her jugular vein was hanging out of her neck and we could hear more air going in and out of the side of her neck than of her mouth/nostrils.  This is one tough old girl.

After a stop at the clinic for more staples and suture - Dr. McMillan made it to the ranch about an hour later and got started on repair what damage he could.  After 3 - 4 hours of surgery the trachea was stitched back together, the vein and artery tied off (Thank Goodness she has one of each on each side) and with addition of some steroids, 9 liters of IV fluids and antibiotics she was ready to go in a stall.  His biggest fear was that the nerve damage might lead to a lack of peristalsis and she would colic (if she didn’t die first from blood loss or a clot to the brain).

The area that she damaged on the front leg also corresponded to Lung 6 - and she had badly scraped up the lower leg including most of the Large Intestine points.  So energy to these sister meridians was greatly compromised.

BioScan Photopuncture on ST 36

BioScan Photopuncture on ST 36

After 2 days of 24/7 close watch care Santana had yet to pee or poop.  She drank a little Sunday evening and Monday morning but wouldn’t eat and had no gut sounds whatsoever.  We were giving her regular probiotics, Amazon Herbs and liquid oxygen and doing acupressure to stimulate digestion - but nothing.  So this morning, after the first dose of Banamine, (and her first pee - yeah!) we got out the Biolights and began opening the Large Intestine meridian, stimulating ST36 (probiotic point for peristalsis) and the kidney meridian.  Within minutes we had gut sounds! After a short while Santana began to drink - steadily off and on till the vet arrived about 3:30.

After his amazement that she was still standing and that the swelling had reduced well - Dr. McMillan gave Santana some additional pain meds (better ones than I can use) and we decided to give her an enema.   He confirmed that she had about 50% gut sounds and since we had lost one vagal nerve, that was a good as he would expect this soon after her trauma.

Once the water had time to work on her, we cleaned her colon out by hand (with the help of a long glove and lots and lots of lubricant) and then replenished the gut flora by putting some Dyna-Pro probiotic back into the colon.  With her being intially so dehydrated she just couldn’t move the dried up poop blocking the colon.  Once back in her stall and out of the drug induced haze Santana began slowly eating!

My hope is that the additional water that she received through the enema - along with the fact that after the lights she had gut sounds and began drinking is an indication that by tomorrow she will be pooping and peeing on her own.  But we will keep using the lights on the acupuncture points to help her through the healing process.

The next step will be to use the lights along with light water massage to reduce the edema in her neck and leg.  Then we will add in blue green algae and more lights to help her regenerate her nerve function.  Meanwhile - I will start working on understanding the message in this for me.  These horses are my greatest teachers and this damage is to her throat chakra.  What am I not expressing?

Keep you posted -

Kay Aubrey-Chimene, RMT
BioNutritional Consultant
Grand Adventure Ranch
Equine Wellness Center
www.grandadventuresranch.com

What a difference the lights make!

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Misty is a sweet Peruvian Paso mare that arrived in late October to our ranch with severe acute DSLD - Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Disease.  Many readers will recognize her from earlier blog entries on the BioScan and Grand Adventures Ranch blogs.  Due to surgery on his ankle, our vet did not see or evaluate Misty until she had been with us for 6 weeks - and that delay may have saved her life.  Dr. McMillan had received our reports and the veterinary diagnosis from the previous vets in Phoenix and was keeping abreast of our therapy protocols.  When he did finally see her, he was blown away by her progress and stated baldly that, if he had seen her when she arrived, from the photos and reports he had been given, he would have euthanized her immediately.

Misty with light accessoriesThank goodness for BioScan.  With almost daily treatment with the lights on her legs, neck, back, poll, hocks, etc - Misty has made amazing progress.  She now stands straight legged most of the time, with very little palmer flexion at the knee.  Her hind legs are now properly aligned under her hindquarters instead of tucked up under her.  Originally, she was so weak in the hindquarters that the slightest tail pull could pull her over.  Today, she is pulling back strongly and can handle side pulls as well.  She rarely lays down and is now able to handle short round pen exercise at the walk and jog.  In fact, she scared her owner this weekend by dragging her to the pen and proceeding to run, buck and rear in fun!

While not out of the woods completely, this beautiful mare has made amazing progress.  The vet has warned her owner that she will never be rideable - but we don’t want to count it out!  Our guideline now is whether or not the nuchal ligament from poll to withers can retighten.  It is very weak and flaccid.  But after her light therapy, Misty is happy to let us stretch and exercise her neck and as she continues to strengthen elsewhere, her neck is sure to follow.

So don’t let a “death knell” diagnosis prevent you from trying.  With light therapy, proper nutrition and detoxification, anything is possible.

Kay Aubrey-Chimene, RMT
“Your Healthy Animals are our First Priority”
Grand Adventures Ranch
Holistic Equine Cancer Recovery Center
www.GrandAdventuresRanch.com
520.455.0202 or 800.797.8274

When everything is a hot point

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

What can you do when it seems like every point on the body that you touch with the BioFind wand produces a loud high-pitched tone?  If you have already turned your sensitivity setting down to 1 and turned down the gate (all the way counter-clockwise) and you are still getting too many tones - you may want to try an acupuncture meridian approach to using your BioPack.

For instance, we recently had a Peruvian Paso mare arrive with multiple veterinary diagnosis:  bowed tendons, stifle damage, lymph-eodema, and DSLD (degenerative suspensory ligament disease).  No matter what the real diagnosis, she is in a great deal of pain.  Her front legs are swollen and hot and she exhibits overall body stiffness.  Simply walking is difficult for her.  Our first attempt to use the BioFind produced over 50 “primary” point on just her neck and left shoulder.  She was obviously too reactive to get a clear idea of what points would be the most beneficial to treat with the lights.

So rather spend an inordinate amount of time using the “Hold” button method for determining the absolute most reactive points on her body, we chose to assist her using a meridian approach.  In acupuncture, all of the major meridians have association points along the Bladder meridian.  The Bladder Meridian is also important for clearing toxicity from the body.  So it is often beneficial to approach problems like this mare’s by beginning there. (more…)

Breeze recovers from a broken back

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

In December of 2005 I met Breeze. She was an 8 year old Morgan mare who was part of a string of horses used for taking tourists on trail rides here in the Coronado National Forest. She had been diagnosed with severe impaction almost 2 months before and was having to be flushed manually every day with water and given laxatives in order for her to pass manure. Her owner were about to put her down when we met.

What 3 vets had failed to notice was that Breeze’s tail could be lifted up and laid along her spine and her anus was completely flaccid. Her sacrum was twisted and one hip was locked at least 2 inches above and in front of the other. Subsequent vet inspection (by a different vet) showed that Breeze had somehow broken her sacral spine in two to three places and stretched or torn the sacral ligaments. She couldn’t poop because she had damaged the nerves that controlled peristalsis. (more…)

Light Cap chiropractic-type adjustment

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I got called out to BioScan a group of horses at a local boarding facility. One of the horses was an elderly warmblood mare who had obviously had a hard life. After many years as a jumper and producing multiple babies her spine was torqued and her rear pasterns were almost touching the ground. Her owner simply wanted to offer her a “spa day” along with the other horses. (more…)

Full Recovery from severe bowed tendons

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

My first introduction to BioScan products was in 1996 when I purchased an Arabian gelding named Sport. Sport was 8 years old and while I had a vet check I did not spring for x-rays or ultra-sounds. At this time I was riding with a group of beginning endurance riders led by one very experienced rider. We were riding 20 to 40 miles each week. Sport was having difficulties with stocking up and showed mild tendonitis but seemed to work out of it as he became more fit.

In the fall we attempted our first 25 mile endurance race. Coming in to the first vet check Sport ( who had been very strong up and over a large hill) began to limp. He had lost a rear shoe and was knotted up in the right hindquarter. We pulled him from the race and proceeded to massage out the knots and get him reshod. But by the next day it was clear that he had bowed both front tendons. My vet was out of town for three days so another vet looked at him and pronounced him “dog food” bound. I was devastated. (more…)

Ringbone and the Hoofboot

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Ringbone is a lameness disease of the pastern and coffin joints. Considered a degenerative disorder with no cure, the question often asked is, “What can be done to relieve the symptoms?”

We believe the HoofBoot? is a good course of treatment, especially for “low ringbone.” The HoofBoot uses pulsed light energy often refered to as PILT Therapy or LED Therapy, directing 630 nm light waves at the ting points and coronary band. In addition, the HoofBoot directs 880 nm light waves at the frog. Pulsing these light waves has been shown to increase circulation, reduce pain and swelling. (more…)