Theta healing, core healing, and other similar holistic methods of healing used on horses? It is a fairly new practice here; equine practitioners are getting certified in the above areas and using their knowledge to transfer the techniques for use on horses. I’m just curious as to who, if anyone, has heard of these before or have any experience with these methods? And would you give it a chance or try it with your own horse? Just wondering about the opinions out there on this…
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Published on 08/01/2010
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I have heard of those methods. In one of my magazines they had an article on it. I wouldn’t pay anyone to get them those methods done but learning how to do them for your own use would be nice. I think the good things about holistic methods is they really can’t hurt anything but only make things better. I have never actually seen them done though!
I would most likely try it, depending on the situation. It seems interesting, to say the least, and I would consider trying it even if purely out of curiosity.
There are a variety of practices which are claimed to be methods for healing and things like “theta healing” are among them.
So-called holistic and alternative therapies are typically methods which have not been and are not supported by veterinary and human medical scientific research. Practitioners attempt to push away this fact by attempting to cast doubt on the entirety of human science.
Some of these practices may be or seem in and of themselves harmless. However, to the extent that they delay people from seeing doctors or horses from being treated by vets, they pose a danger to the health and lives of ourselves, our loved ones and the animals that are in our care.
Others of these practices may be actively dangerous, requiring ingestion or application of untested plants or herbal substances, with consequences that may not appear for days, weeks, months, years or which may be quick but hard to trace.
Personally, I know that I am only willing to trust the life and health of my horse to the most rigorously tested practices and substances available. And when considering those, I am not only trusting my vet, but I am questioning my vet to ensure that he or she is using the most supported and up to date knowledge science can deliver.
My horse does not deserve to be made an experimental subject for testing unscientific guesses about how the world or equine physiology works. I have an obligation and commitment to him. to ensure he has the best care modern science can provide.
So that’s how I care for my horse. I can only hope others will do the same.