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| A
Bit About The Digestive System |
 Your
horses digestive system works to chemically its food. Carbohydrates,
proteins (amino acids), fibre and fatty acids are all separated, sorted,
used and stored as your horses body dictates, ensuring that vital
components needed for energy, growth, cell reproduction and overall
physical maintenance are received and utilised. |
| The
digestive system operates an interactive relationship with the cardiovascular
system, endocrine
system and nervous system, all of which can be
positively influenced through the benefits of equine massage therapy. |
| The nervous system provides the involuntary reflex muscular
contractions within the digestive system to enable the breakdown of food. |
| Even
before your horses food is chewed, the very smell and sight of food
initiates the digestive process. |
| Upon
seeing and smelling food, your horses brain activates the parasympathetic
division of the autonomic system sending
orders to the glands of the endocrine system to produce digestive juices. |
| The endocrine system is responsible for activating the
digestive glands that produce and secrete digestive juices vital for
breaking down the food. Thus, a healthy endocrine system provides the digestive system
with positive influences for obtaining optimal levels of nutrition from
the digestion of food. |
| The cardiovascular system provides muscles of the digestive
system with their essential supply of blood and nutrients, helping to
provide an effective storage of fatty acids and glucose. |
| Equine
Massage Therapy and The Digestive System |
| Although
equine massage therapy primarily focuses its workings upon the muscles,
there are subsequential positive effects received by your horses digestive
system with equine massage techniques and routines specifically designed to
create and enhance these
effects. |
| The intellectual application of
equine massage therapy can enhance the horses’ digestive
process to create and maintain a more effective metabolism of essential
nutrients and antioxidants that work to neutralise a variety of trapped
toxins. |
| Certain applications
of equine massage therapy (veterinary permission) directed to the abdomen
will stimulate the muscles of the stomach, intestines and bowel,
increasing the ‘peristalsis’ action that encourages the digestive
process. Thus, digestion is enhanced and toxins eliminated more
thoroughly. |
| Enhanced amounts of
nutrients and oxygen can be delivered to the digestive organs, muscles and
glands that work and maintain the digestive cycle. |
| Horses with a healthy and effective digestive system will
receive advanced nutritional gains, leaving them less vulnerable to
certain ailments and negative conditions. |
| The enhanced flow and quality of blood will subsequently
enhance the quality and flow of hormones and chemicals needed for
digestion. |
| Massage
stimulates ‘peristalsis’ and can reduce cramping or spasm in the
digestive tract. |
| The digestive system
houses an integrated team of hard working muscles that require their own
individual and collective good health so that they may perform their
contractile actions for the effective breakdown of food as well as the
good working order of the entire digestive system. |
| The intellectual
application of equine massage therapy can work with the horses abdominal
actions and thus directly influence the excretion
(via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metabolism,
inorganic phosphorous, all in all speed up the elimination of toxins. |
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