Preventing Injury in Equine Athletes using Super Pulsed Laser Therapy: Arlene White, PT

Arlene White, PT, describes her experience using Multi Radiance Veterinary Laser Therapy on equine athletes to prevent injuries and heal wounds. Learn more about our technology & get Super Pulsed Laser Therapy in your practice: http://www.multiradiance.com/veterinary/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=awhite Video transcript: Hi, this is Mark Strong with Multi Radiance Medical, I'm the Veterinary Director and it's a pleasure to be with Arlene White of Animal Rehab Institute. Arlene brings a wealth of experience to physiotherapy in particular, working on canines as well but your love of horses has really taken over at this point. She's been using our lasers now for about six months but in a wide variety of different cases and has a certification program here for physiotherapy. So if you will, tell us a little bit about yourself, your practice, and especially your experience with lasers and I'm just gonna let you take it away from there. Arlene: I met Mark six months ago. I was introduced to the Multi Radiance product and I've been using many lasers before, I had multiple lasers, some from the UK many years ago, a company called Symed made some lasers and I had some of their products and then I had some other products from some US distributors. And I've used laser in the past but I've never really been so convinced by anything that they've done for me. I didn't think that I could get any benefit out of what they did compared to what I did on my own. And then Mark introduced me to this little magic. It's changed my opinion of how laser works and I've seen some really incredible results with Multi Radiance Lasers. Mark: Specifically, some conditions, what really puts you over the top? Arlene: So treating for sure wounds, using the antibacterial light, the blue light on the unit. Summer sores, we've seen incredible results in healing those and particularly ones that are in areas that are very difficult to treat so we can use that additional probe that can get us into those areas. I have many horses in Florida that end up with summer sores in their mouth and in the cheek tissue here and there's a really nice part of the probe that can actually assess that and get in there and we can actually treat with that unit, so I've seen a lot of really good results with that first. On top of that, just to do the general Unwinding Protocol, it saves me tons of time in doing myofascial release and many manual therapies to try to get the horse to relax, I can get a lot of it done with just using the probe and doing that scan technique with the Unwinding Protocol down the bladder meridian of the horse, and I see incredible relaxation on the horses and I can then get in and do what I need to do quite quickly to really make the range of motion better in the horse and do the exercises that need to be done. Mark: You've seen the evolution of physiotherapy, and from a competitor's standpoint, can you imagine being competitive anymore without using physical therapy? Arlene: No. In the human aspect, we've seen physical therapy for many years and many of you have had injuries and things that have been treated conservatively through therapy and not had to have surgery and then others who've had surgery and then backed it up with physio in the end in rehab. So you must think about that in terms of what you're doing with your animals. These guys are athletes, just like our human athletes, and they need to be treated as such. So if we're going to give them the best benefit to get to the top, and really we're looking more at preventive injuries is what I'm really interested in, trying not to have the tendon ligament injuries, trying not to have the problems occur, and how can we do that, and the way to prevent that is to keep the horse moving in a proper way and not letting them get stuck or get in trouble or have areas of injuries that are causing them to change their gait patterns and use themselves differently which then is going to lead to injury.