Archive for the ‘Bowed Tendons’ Category

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…)

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…)