Supportive Therapies: PEMF, Red Light, Thermal Imaging & Ozone

PEMF, Red Light, Thermal Imaging and Ozone WITH BIG RIVER EQUINE

Big River Equine has been exploring alternative and complementary therapies since 2015 with a mission to help our clients detect and alleviate subtle and chronic discomforts in their equine partners that may be contributing to hoof problems.
We have the following modalities in our holistic hoof care arsenal to provide our equine clientele immediate comfort and parasympathetic relaxation responses.

What we offer:

• Photonic Health Equine Pain-Free Pad System (Red Light Therapy)

• BEMER Horse Set - Sessions, Sales and Rentals (www.bigriverequine.bemergroup.com)

• Ozonated Hoof Topicals, Ozone Protocol Training and Ozone Generator Rentals

We are excited to share our therapeutic services with existing clients during regularly scheduled appointments.

We feel strongly about keeping these incredible services cost effective and easily accessible.

Innovations for Soundness with BEMER Horse Set

Big River Equine has been innovating for years to discover ways to help our clients’ horses prevent and overcome lameness issues as well as to improve their quality of life. In 2015, we added Thermal Imaging, or Thermography, to our suite of hoof care services. In 2020, we added Equine Microcirculation/Vascular Therapy provided by the BEMER Horse-Set to complement what we find interesting in our Thermography scans. The BEMER Horse-Set has been proven to have a positive impact on your horse’s body. It strengthens your horse’s health in terms of prevention and promotes regeneration after illness. It improves suppleness during training or when preparing for competitions. It can also provide valuable support during the healing process, including recovery from muscle tension or tendon/ligament/muscle injury.

We strongly believe in prevention and empowering clients with tools they can utilize themselves in order to deliver dramatic results. For more than 20 years, the benefits of BEMER have impacted millions of people around the world. It is easy-to-use and non-invasive. 

The BEMER Horse-Set has been proven to have a positive impact on your horse’s body. It strengthens your horse’s health in terms of prevention and promotes regeneration after illness. It improves suppleness during training or when preparing for competitions. It can also provide valuable support during the healing process, including recovery from muscle tension or tendon/ligament/muscle injury. Click on the Image for more information.

Ask about a BEMER session at your next appointment or rent one for your upcoming travel or showing event!

BEMER RESEARCH ON EQUINE BACK PAIN

BEMER Horse Set

With thermography we can subjectively identify dysregulated blood flow patterns and by utilizing BEMER, improve microcirculation by supporting the nervous system! BEMER is a unique and powerful tool to boost blood circulation and supporting the parasympathetic nervous system.

BEMER microcirculation therapy does 3 simple things extremely well:

1. Better Supply of Oxygen to Cells by 30%

2. Better Supply of Nutrients to Cells

3. Better Disposal of Metabolic Waste and Detoxification 

Since 1998 the FDA-registered medical device, BEMER, has specialized in electromagnetic energy regulation technology.  BEMER gently assists the heart in delivering blood to the arterioles, the smallest vessels in the body. Its primary goal is to use a pulsed electromagnetic field—abbreviated as PEMF—to deliver a patented therapeutic signal that mimics that of the Earth’s magnetic field. The BEMER signal helps improve the impaired pumping movements of very small vessels and promote needs-based distribution of blood.

USING THERMOGRAPHY, RED LIGHT, OZONE AND BEMER FOR BLOOD FLOW

Ozonated fluids are a cost effective and non-invasive means of disinfecting the hoof post farrier work and prior to adding topicals. Ozone provides a concentrated boost of oxygen that potentiates all other treatment protocols and therapeutic modalities. We strongly believe ozone therapy should be available to everyone so we also offer no cost ozone protocol training so you can confidently rent our ozone generator and have more treatment options available to you and your large and small animals at home! You can learn more about ozone at O3vets.com, check out their YouTube channel too!

With thermography, stress points throughout the body show up visibly warmer. Like traffic congestion on the road seen from a helicopter’s perspective, the body’s blocked “roadways” (aka., blood vessels) are seen clumped together on the thermogram.  The “hot spots” represent poor cell functioning and increased inflammation.

Chronic discomfort can often be better understood through the use of thermography since inflammation is caused by poor blood circulation of the affected region and/or excess muscle tension.  Poor oxygenation + excess inflammation in the affected region prevents adequate healing. Thermography helps us determine the most effective personalized therapy for managing chronic discomfort and inflammation, even in cases where conventional treatments have failed to cause significant improvement. Thermography is noninvasive and very effective, especially in earlier stages of lameness detection. If we see a problematic area in a scan, we can provide immediate follow-up and support using BEMER microcirculation therapy in those specific locations where abnormal blood circulation and poor cellular function are found.

Each Photonic Health light has a wavelength of 660nm. This is the strength of the light to penetrate skin and reach the deeper tissue layers. When applied, it illuminates the damaged tissues, stimulating cells. The cells in an animal's body, as well as stem cells, have functioning mitochondria. Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell as it is responsible for the production of energy, or ATP (adenosine triphosphate). Inside the mitochondria, there is an enzyme called cytochrome c oxidase. This is a chromophore (meaning light absorbing molecule). When cytochrome c oxidase is exposed to light, it releases nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a chemical that has a general effect of vasodilation (opening of the blood vessels). By increasing blood flow to any given area of injury or imbalance, the body can heal itself. This can also benefit the absorption and circulation of nutrients, supplements and medications throughout the body.

Another chemical released by the cell when illuminated with Photonic Health red light is ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species). These are chemicals released by a cell to signal the body that the cell is under oxidative stress and needs help from the immune system, as well as providing a chemical buffer around healthy cells to protect them from damage.

By supporting basic physiological processes of normal cell cycling, and their circulation throughout the body, Photonic Health red light can have an effect on a number of specific conditions. It can help maintain normal body processes and cellular turnover so your animal stays healthy and vibrant with regular use. It can help maintain the health and appearance of the skin & fur by increasing the turnover of cells on areas that have been damaged, such as sun damage or scarring. It can help calm nerves and decrease pain by increasing blood flow to the nerves so they can heal. The carotid artery and femoral artery are access points to the blood to illuminate the blood cells and prevent platelet aggregation and buildup of plaque.

Click HERE for a list of clinical studies.