Webinar – Dr Gillian Tabor – PEMF (Hofmag / Magnawave)

PEMF Therapy: Hype, Hope or Helpful?
In this Animalweb webinar, Dr Gillian Tabor, Chartered Physiotherapist, takes a deep dive into the growing use of Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) therapy for horses. With devices like Hoffmag and MagnaWave becoming increasingly visible in yards, demos, and on social media, horse owners and therapists are asking: does it really work?

Dr Tabor explores the science behind PEMF, separating anecdotal claims from evidence. She explains the differences between low- and high-intensity devices, their potential benefits, penetration depth, and cellular effects, as well as safety concerns and current gaps in research. Real-world examples, research reviews, and critical discussion make this an invaluable session for anyone considering investing in or using PEMF therapy.

Key topics include:

• How PEMF devices work and how they differ from static magnets
• The claims vs. the current scientific evidence
• Research studies in horses and humans – what do we actually know?
• Potential benefits for circulation, pain and muscle tone
• Risks, contraindications and the importance of professional training
• Ethical and FEI competition considerations

Dr Tabor emphasises a balanced, evidence-based approach: encouraging curiosity and open-mindedness while highlighting the need for more robust studies before strong claims can be made.

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Hello and welcome to this webinar. I’m Gillian Tabor. I’m a physiotherapist and I’ve been tasked with this topic by the guys at Animal Web. Thank you very much. ⁓ A brilliant area to get into. ⁓ I covered it briefly in one of my previous webinars on therapeutic gadgets, but ⁓ let’s pull it out and have a closer look at it. So what’s the topic? The topic is pulsed electromagnetic fields ⁓ and these

specifically applied ⁓ in sort of a therapeutic purpose to our horses. And in specifically, we’re going to look at some of the newer kids on the block. So the Hoffmag, the MagnaWave, the high intensity PEMF, you might have heard it called PEMF or PEMI. It’s all referring to the same approach using a device that imparts a current to your horse. And we’ll go into the detail of how it does that.

and we’ll also talk about what its intentions are, why it might be useful or not from a therapeutic point of view, ⁓ and then also talk about some of the concerns that I have about it and really sort of open a discussion because you know might have seen these advertised on social media, the certainly the Hoffmag is marketed, I don’t know whether I’ve sort of a bias-escued view but it’s marketed to me quite a lot, there are

professionals in these various equestrian disciplines that are using it. And there are also opportunities for therapists to buy a unit and to travel around and treat horses with it. So if you are a therapist, if you’re a horse owner, you know, if you’re thinking of adding it to your horse’s management or even to your sort of tools in your toolkit, then hopefully, you know, this will be useful.

I have to say, you know, I’m not biased in any way. I’m not associated with either these companies, but I have been in discussions with them and I’ll go into further detail with that. I mean, actually, I wanted to find out more about it. I’ve seen both of them used in demos and ⁓ yeah, you know, I have a personal interest in them as much as I’m sure you people do as well if you’re watching this. So let’s crack on then. So ⁓ what are we looking at?

So we’re not looking at static magnets. So static magnets are the sort of flexible strips or little round buttons ⁓ that sort of sit on ⁓ materials or sometimes they’re, you know, they’re sort of stuck onto horses or people or they’re in bracelets or wraps, that kind of thing. So it’s not static magnets. And we have

no evidence that static magnets actually do what they say that they do, although, you know, people will claim that they feel better if they’re wearing them or their dog might be moving better or their horse with arthritis seems better with them. Unfortunately, we haven’t got that evidenced in the research at the moment. So pulse electromagnetic fields are different because they require something that ⁓ admits a pulse, so they have to be plugged in. They’ve got a measurable frequency in hertz.

The electric current needs to be switched on and switched off to induce this pulsing effect. So you can measure the pulses per second. They are, they tend to be sort of quite low frequency ⁓ compared with when we’re thinking about the static electromagnetic field and some people call it the smog around us, know, that’s given off by our, you know, our microwaves, our TVs, our mobile phones.

You know, those are in the sort of gigahertz range. But we’re looking at devices that have a much lower frequency. And if you’ve seen them and you’ve seen that you can see a muscle contraction with them, if you can count the contractions, then you know that that is a low frequency. So.

They vary considerably, which means that you can manipulate some of the parameters to them. So the main thing that we’re going to be thinking about in this session when we’re thinking about the the Hoffmag style versus our ⁓ lower intensity is the power output of them, the frequencies. So specific devices might say, you know, 20 hertz for this, they might say 10 hertz for that or six or eight hertz. You know, there’s lots of different

ways that you can apply it and then how it’s actually applied the delivery methods. So with some of our low intensity devices, you know, we have blankets, we have wraps, we have pads and the devices like the Hoffmag and the MagnaWave, they actually have a coil which is the method of getting the current out into the tissues. I will talk about

research later, but with all these devices and it’s very, very similar to laser, to ultrasound, even to shockwave, that actually there’s no agreement as to which the dosages or the parameters ⁓ actually have the better clinical effect if they have any. So, you know, we’re not quite sure ⁓ at the moment because there aren’t any.

studies comparing A versus B. So that’s an area that needs to be investigated. When we’re thinking about the magnetic fields, we have to think that the low powered devices are in the range of sort of 0.5 to 80, sorry, to 50 micro Tesla, which is 10 to 1000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. But when you get up into the much higher levels with these newer devices,

then you are thinking that it’s many, many times greater than the strength of the natural Earth’s magnetic field. And it’s also much higher than the intensity coming from our power lines, our microwaves, our TVs, things like that. But it is only delivered in a very, very brief dose, know, literally nanoseconds. So the actual quantity is still a lot lower.

Okay so I just wanted to put out these two pictures you know I go to Wikipedia so I don’t have any issues with consent for using pictures I’m not stealing them off websites for the fundamentals so if this is familiar to you on the left we’ve got this image of the right hand rule so I was taught this in GCSE physics so when you have got your current which is discernible in this image of the blue

a line with the eye in it, current going up and out of your thumb, then the magnetic field is at right angles to it, which is the B. So this is, you know, if you picture the coil, the purple, ⁓ I wonder what they call it. It’s not an electrode, but let’s stick to coil for the moment. Coming out of the machine, it sends this electric current along the

line of the ⁓ device and then out of it at right angles is your magnetic field. So on the right I’ve got a bit of a random picture here but if you imagine the sort of ball the knot of the ball in the middle is the ⁓ globe across the equator where you’ve got this blurring of the blue and the yellow lines the electromagnetic field or the magnetic field comes out at right angles to the equator.

So if that equator was the loop in the coil that you see coming out of the machine, you can see that the electromagnetic field will extend above and below that equator. So that’s how that magnetic field gets delivered into your tissues. And the interesting thing with electromagnetic fields is it’s not shielded by ⁓ tissues or structures ⁓ that ⁓ magnetic fields or sound waves.

sorry, electric fields or sound waves are shielded by. So it can go through clothing, it can go through hair, it can go through skin. And I did read somewhere that ⁓ I think it was a MagnaWave that said that it can go and penetrate as deep as 16 inches. Now, of course, that is going to be very beneficial when you’re thinking about the depth of the tissue in the horse. So laser.

we know only actually penetrates five millimetres, the actual sort of little photons, but you have a cascade effect that goes deeper to it. So ⁓ laser needs sort of soft wet tissue to work. When we’re thinking about radio frequency and we’re thinking about in D, but or wind back, then that has a much deeper effect. So like that, these Hofmag magna waves have a suggestion that they can be treating

as sort of far deep as the facet joints in the lumbar spine, for instance, or perhaps, you know, they could go through the bone into the sacroiliac region. So in theory, you know, there are good benefits for the actual penetration depth because they’re not shielded by materials. But, you know, is that a safety factor for us to consider? ⁓ for the person that’s actually delivering the dose, I do wonder, ⁓

you know, what the sort of effects of that is. Now I have got a, I pulled out a study on safety of the actual field, ⁓ but you know, that’s not done years and years and years of delivery with these high intensity PEMF devices. So, you know, we need to know more about that, I think, but that, you know, there’s no evidence for that. That’s just, you know, my concern thinking about what happens.

⁓ electromagnetic fields and some people are super sensitive to them so some people can’t live or walk under power lines, some people find that their mobile phones give them headaches for instance but other people, know, and also when we look at the research there’s no evidence to the claims that, you know, they cause cancer or they, you know, have any other significant effects so, you know, there’s lots of debunking the myths around that but just, you know, just a sort of open discussion really about the

the lack of knowledge we have. OK, so how does it work? Well, from a cellular physiology point of view, ⁓ it is very complex. I’ve tried to find a good way of describing it. But basically, the magnetic field has an effect on the cell membrane, the idea being that it can normalise cellular activity.

So you have a change in circulation to the area and you have flow of the good stuff in and out of the cells. So some of the lay descriptions are that they’ll flush out toxins from the cells, which we sort of have to think, that’s a bit of a lazy discussion. But the reason for that is this is very, very complex. So if you want to read a review about it, I can provide a reference to… ⁓

suit the actual sort of physiological mechanisms. But just to say that this research or this paper review paper was talking about low intensity field devices and going on to seeing what those kinds of devices look like. You know, these you might be sort of familiar with on the top left. We’ve got the Beamer top right. We’ve got the Biomag and in the middle we’ve got the Activo Med, Meg, Med, Activo Med Rug.

So these are sort of giving out somewhere in the region of sort of 80 to 100 Gauss, quite low powered. If you hold a static magnet near the coils, you’ll feel the static magnet vibrating, which is really quite cool because then you’re thinking, well, if that’s what’s happening to the cells, then, you know, any energy imparted into the tissue is going to increase the sort of cellular mechanism. But when we look at these devices,

very, very minimal research. Top right, the Westville Biomag, which is a very common unit that physios have. There isn’t any research that is provided with it. Certainly no research in horses. And the suggestions for the therapeutic dosages come within the instruction manual. So it’ll say for muscle, put it on a base frequency of 50 Hertz and then have that cycling at 17 and a half Hertz.

or for pain, might have a base frequency of 200 that is stayed constant. It’s applied via the applicator so you can get leg wraps, you can get those big pads, you can get a bed for your dog to lie in. And the delivery of that, the timer’s sort of run from about 15 to 20 minutes each time. And the idea being that, you you treat it sort of multiple times. The Activo Med Rug there at the bottom also has vibration massage units in it.

⁓ That’s my horse when he had surgery because he, my daughter’s pony kicked him and fractured his splint bone. He had to have surgery on his left hind there. So there’s a leg applicator wrap on his leg and he’s wearing the rug. ⁓ And he had it whilst he was on box rest because it was made available to me. ⁓ And certainly there’s no sort of safety concerns with ⁓ actually putting it on. From a behavioral point of view, he wasn’t worried about it at all.

And then top left there, he is trying the Beamer and the Beamer does have some research. There’s a paper on it that I’ve covered in ⁓ a research review session and in the Therapeutic Gadgets webinar. And it showed that it had some beneficial effects physically and so also from ⁓ a mechanical nociceptive threshold point of view as well. The challenge that we have with that research for me personally and I’ve, you know,

keep saying it, I’m sorry, ⁓ the the measurers were not blinded to it and there wasn’t a control group so you know I think we do need further research into that. There is another study that came out in 2013 by BNN that looked at a rug on 22 polo ponies and they did it for 10 days at a row and looked at mechanical nociceptor thresholds with their pressure algometer, looked at back movements and flexion testing but

there wasn’t any sort of consistent outcomes with it. Now it might have been that these horses were painful or too painful, not painful, we don’t know. But as yet we haven’t got a huge amount of convincing evidence. There’s lots of anecdotes. People say their horses are comfortable when they’re wearing them and they feel good. But, you know, they are very expensive devices. So what are we here to talk about today? We’re talking about the high powered intensity devices.

This is ⁓ one being used on my daughter’s pony as an example. This is a pony that kicked my horse. Lovely pony. Not her fault. ⁓ But here she is with a set of coils, one on each side, laid over her lumbar region. So let’s talk about these high powered units. They’re very, very different. When we were talking about the lower powered one, we were talking about sort of up to 80 gauss.

And some of these units can go up to 25,000 Gauss. So the question is, is more powerful better? Well, you know, again, we haven’t got a low powered versus high powered research study that’s being conducted. So we don’t know the answer to that. But the difference with these units that you will see in the videos and in the marketing is that because it’s putting in this higher powered magnetic field,

You then get the sort of secondary effect on the nerves, which causes nerve depolarization and therefore you get a muscle contraction. So that is a significant difference. So you’ll see a pulsing effect. You’ll see the pulsing effect ⁓ theoretically more where there is tension. So it could be that the ⁓ rate of nerve depolarization, the threshold for that is actually changed when you have

a higher muscle tone where you have tension, where you have pain or maybe you have inflammation and certainly where the nerves run more superficially then that magnetic field is going to affect them ⁓ sort of in a sort priority fashion. So you’ll get muscle contraction. So these are the units that you’re seeing. So on the top left is the magna wave. So there’s a small unit and Hoffmag on the left and then the pulse.

Pro on the bottom right. So the common thing with these devices is they have to be powered. They have to have this sort of big box that creates the electric charge that goes down the coils and then that creates that magnetic field either side of the coil.

The coils can be of different sizes. So the top left there, you’ve got the butterfly one, which is the little loops, but you saw these sort of big groups on my pony earlier on. And then when you’ve got the Hoffmag one, they have them different sizes, but ⁓ you can see that the coil, the circle is on the top of that lead. And that is sort of what is emitting that magnetic field.

So I did a little bit of research on the Hoffmag on the website. can, in the videos that you look at, you get muscle contraction and they say that this identifies areas of tension. It activates those muscles and talks about mental and physical relaxation. So I wondered, you know, who does Hoffmag and looked in Europe and you can see that there are a lot of devices being used out there.

I was looking at sort of general cost in the UK. found sort of an average was about £45 for a session, including the case history. And then hopefully that includes your full assessment. So your static and dynamic assessment, palpation and range of motion, and then the treatment. But for £45, that is sort of relatively cheap when you’re thinking about, you know, certainly my costs when I go out to see clients.

⁓ and qualified vet physios from a business point of view, ⁓ that isn’t very expensive. But there are a lot of people using them and we see a lot of professionals have them in their yard. So if you go to the website or go on their social media, you will see that there are some big names that have them in their yards. They are using them. I’m not quite sure whether they have somebody that is trained to use it or whether they are using them.

but you know that certainly helps get the word out. So I’ve got a lot of ⁓ these are taken from their websites but they say that when a cell is exposed to disturbances in its surrounding environment such as inflammation caused by overexertion stress or injury it can greatly reduce the cells energy provision so they talk about this device actually helping

generate activity in the cell. So ATP is our sort of energy unit. And they say that using their PEMF increases ATP in the cells. Well, we certainly know from the research, it will change the cell membrane potential. So theoretically, if we can get nutrients into the cell, get oxygen into the cell, if we’re thinking about aerobic.

aerobic metabolism or certainly substrates that are needed for aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, then potentially, you know, can we increase ATP production? The idea being that we want to sort of normalise or increase cellular activity. So it sounds great from the marketing on the website.

The other point that I picked out is that certainly with the Hoffmag, they’re talking about a different wave technology. And this reminds me of some of the marketing for a device called the H-Wave. So some of you might be familiar with that, but that is a neuromuscular electrical stimulator. So that passes an electrical current through the tissue and they talk about the H-Wave having a biphasic exponential decaying wave. So

Like the Hoth mag here on the bottom left of the those two charts, it starts at its intensity ⁓ and then sort of reduces down to nothing. The H-Wave say that it is much more ⁓ tolerated. It’s more comfortable. Personally, when I’ve used H-Wave versus a standard biphasic wave of a TENS machine or a neuromuscular electrical stimulator, I’ve not seen any difference in the horse’s tolerance.

But, you know, again, the research needs to show that. So Hofmag is saying that it is frequency of six hertz, so six pulse trains per second. So you might see that the sort of flicker with that of the muscle contraction and then relaxation. And then they say that the depth can go up to 20 centimeters. So as I said, the MagnaWave said 16 inches.

that’s American. So, you know, that’s similar talking about the depth of penetration, which actually is absolutely brilliant if ⁓ it does get that deep in equine tissue. ⁓ want, you know, we need therapies, know, pain, inflammation doesn’t just happen in the surface. So if we can get anything deeper, then that is really good. The advantage over Hoffmag

and MagnaWave over our other devices such as the WimBak or the Indiba radio frequency is because the current can pass through or the field can pass through the hair and the skin without needing a contact medium, i.e. gel or water, you don’t have to wet the horse. So there is benefit to that, however.

What we don’t know is the difference between radio frequency targeting the tissues and magnetic field targeting the tissues. I’m sure there are some lab-based, there is lab-based data on that, but if anybody’s listening and they’ve got, they can point me to that or they know specific about that, then that would be absolutely amazing. But I don’t think we’ve got that direct comparison.

So how is this magnetic field produced? So in the older units, you had tungsten rods and a charge was built up and then discharged. then you had, if you visualise a little sort of lightning bolt across what they call the spark gap, then that would create your voltage that would travel up your line to your coil and then deliver that electromagnetic field.

In the modern devices, they can be smaller because they use a digital ⁓ system to deliver that voltage up the line, as it were. And then one of the effects on them. Well, we have physiologic effects and visible effects. So in horses, we don’t have any research on the physiological effects. We do not have the measurement at a cellular level.

I will talk about some research on the sort of functional outcome of treating with the Hoffmag, ⁓ but from a physiologic point of view, we don’t have that information. What you do see is this muscle contraction, as we’ve seen from the Hoffmag, then it is at six hertz with the Magnowave one that I showed you as you increase the intensity, the frequency does go down, but again, it’s a very low frequency, so you can see that muscle contraction. Now,

Does that muscle contraction cause fatigue? Well, I think you’d have to go some to ⁓ actually ⁓ create the output of fatigue. So it’s not going to have the effect that exercise or high intensity exercise would have. It cannot contract the whole muscle. It cannot sort of ⁓ sequentially start with contracting type one fibers. It’s more likely to start with contracting type two or type two X fibers because those are the most superficial ones.

But does it contract them to the point of failure as you would do if you were training for hypertrophy? I don’t think it does. So I think it’s fair to say that it doesn’t cause fatigue. My concern with muscle contraction is sort of indiscriminate use over areas that might be painful, that there might be inflammation or even if there’s muscle tearing, there’s muscle damage, ⁓ even low grade and there’s bleeding.

Typically, we would suggest resting until there was recovery for that. So, you if you go in there with your high intensity ⁓ PMF device, could you create more damage? Well, I think that is a risk. So hopefully people that are using it are trained to do their full assessments so that they acknowledge what’s going on before they start using it. So let’s have a look at the research.

So ⁓ in this study, we’ve got ⁓ a measurement of the elasticity with the use of, they call it high induction magnetic stimulation, HIMS. And they say that the risk of having tension or stiffness is that you can have excessive rigidity, which can cause ⁓ degenerative joint disease. So what this research group did,

they actually delivered high intensity PEMF magnetic stimulation and they measured the viscoelastic properties of muscle. And they said that with 10 minutes of treatment ⁓ at 1.2, no, that’s 12,000, no, 1200 gauss, 1.2 gauss would be very, very low. The muscle became softer and that was of benefit. So they changed the muscle tone. So they said that was really useful.

⁓ The tool that they use is quite a cool one. Unfortunately, it’s not something that we can translate easily into equine use, but they showed that there was ⁓ softness of the muscle after using this ⁓ using high intensity penth. Now, the Hoffmag have recently released on their website some research on horses, which is really good to know.

It was a dissertation project and I’ve spoken to the author of it and from a critique point of view of the paper there are some really strong robust sort of methodological principles for this paper. They used 22 horses, they had nine in a control group, 13 in a treatment group and what was good to know is that the measurer was blinded to the treatment groups.

The horses were treated or took part in the control area or control group for 30 minutes daily for five days. The blinded assessor measured muscle palpation, limb passive range of motion. They used a pressure algometer to measure mechanical nociceptive threshold and they looked at spinal range of motion and they said that all parameters significantly improved. And with their data, was statistical significant change.

And also when you looked at the effect sizes, there was some real suggestion that the change, the magnitude of change did have clinically significant effect. There is ⁓ obviously some critique of the muscle palpation and the range of motion measures because they are subjective. But the benefit of this study is that the horses were in two groups and the assessor was blinded. So they didn’t know. So hopefully.

applied the same level of subjective analysis, trying to be as objective as possible with both groups. So this is really good. I really hope that this paper actually gets published. It would be fabulous if it was because this is the first sort of study into Hoffmag. And I said I was going to be talking about safety testing and this is quite a cool one. They actually…

delivered high intensity ⁓ magnetic stimulation to the hearts of pigs and they found there was no pathological change in the ECG. So they said that they didn’t think that there was a significant risk to health in terms of short-term effect of this technique on cardiac activity, which is reassuring. Obviously pigs are used quite a lot in safety testing and in research for

equivalence to humans because I believe that they are fairly similar. Certainly their spines are practiced and operated on by orthopaedic surgeons but it was quite reassuring to actually show that there is a paper on the safety and obviously when you’re delivering that high intensity electromagnetic field we don’t want it to influence our hearts so this is a good paper.

So the discussions from the human papers are that there is a quick effect on the extracellular matrix, but no effect on the contractile apparatus, which is what is suggested. So though it causes a contraction, we’re not actually sort of changing the physical properties of the tissues. So the idea being that ⁓ if it’s applied ⁓

correctly and locally, then you’re going to have a good quick effect, which might be why subjectively we’re getting these anecdotal stories of people saying that when they have had their horses treated and then they subsequently ride them, they feel different. Just a word that if you are ⁓ a therapist, then are you allowed to use it if you’re working in under FEI rules? There is in their rules.

this rule to say that you’re not allowed to use PMF if their electromagnetic field is over 1000 Gauss. Some of the higher powered MagnaWave devices are, so they wouldn’t be allowed to be used even though you can use them on a lower setting, you could switch them to something that would deliver ⁓ a higher output than is allowed.

The Hoffmag reports to be up to 650 gauss, so that is below the 1000 gauss. So, yes, it could be used in FEI permitted treatment.

So coming to the end, then what are my conclusions? Well, for the low powered devices and rugs that I showed you earlier, there is evidence in humans. ⁓ You you can look at sort of first principles. There’s a fair bit on ⁓ bone healing or delayed bone union to suggest that low powered PEMF delivered for long durations can help with osteoblast activity. The equine research, well, we’ve got a couple of papers.

Well, actually, there’s I think there’s three on BEMA. There’s one about recovery after general anaesthesia. But from a musculoskeletal point of view, unfortunately, that paper, as I said, and I will keep saying, doesn’t have a blinded assessor or a placebo control group. But there are studies that are happening. So maybe there are more out there that will be published soon. There’s no side effects being reported, therefore, from a risk point of view, you could use it.

The rugs are very expensive, you know, they’re running to sort of three, four thousand pounds. The bio mags are a lot lower. You can hire them for short term use. I have one in my toolkit. I use it. ⁓ I find that it ⁓ subjectively increases circulation. Certainly I can feel the warmth under using it, which is really good prior to manual therapy. ⁓ So, yeah, and for pain relief as well.

but we need more research for the use on horses. And then what about PMF? Well, we’ve got that dissertation project, which is fantastic, but it’s not enough. ⁓ You can see the effect on muscles. So physically it is having something, it is doing something. ⁓ It apparently because of the mode of delivery, that waveform, it’s less painful.

Obviously, if you don’t have to wet the whole horse, you don’t have to put gel on, then it’s better than NMES and also our radio frequency devices such as Indiba and ⁓ Windback. If that is a limitation that you find is personally restrictive ⁓ in the winter, obviously you have to use warm water and wetting horses is not always ideal. But I have got colleagues that use the radio frequency to very, very good effect.

⁓ So, you know, there’s research on that as well. But yeah, for Hough Mag Magnaway, for these high intensity PEMF units, we need more research. But just to finish, my major concern is how it is being used. So if you are a qualified therapist, you know your scope of practice, you know about the physiological

pathways of pathology, know, when to use it, when not to use it, then that’s absolutely fabulous. But, you know, is it being used always like that? These devices are marketed and sold to therapists of different qualifications, you perhaps not so intense as a bachelor’s or a master’s degree. They are also sold to

owners. Now, I believe that they undertake training within the group. So if you use a MagnaWave, then there’s a MagnaWave Academy. I’m sure there’s the same for Hoffmag, but to what depth that is. Obviously, I am well known, along with Dr. David Marlin, as being sceptical for these devices. I, know, cards on the table. I’m going to have a trial with a Hoffmag. I’m going to see how I get on.

⁓ I would love to conduct some research with it as well as the same with the MagnaWave ⁓ and let’s get some published data out there because if it is beneficial, then absolutely fantastic. There’s lots of reports of subjective sort of anecdotes of how great it is. So let’s see whether we can support it because, you know, I’m all in favor of finding something that is going to be beneficial for our horses. But, you know, if you’re going to employ somebody to come and use it on your horse, just check their qualifications.

check their background knowledge on cellular physiology, damage, pain. ⁓ Make sure that ⁓ if your horse is looking uncomfortable with it being used, they are aware of that. They’re very good at reading your horse’s body language. yeah, be as objective as possible if you are using it. Let’s see whether we can ⁓ actually have some evidence, confidence that what we are doing is the right thing.

So that just leaves me to say thank you very much for listening. If you’ve got any questions, any thoughts, anything that you want to discuss, then please do that either in the Facebook group or you can email the Animal Wave team and that gets passed to me. ⁓ And yeah, when I’ve had a go with it, will feedback, let you know what I think ⁓ and I’ll let you know if we’ve got some upcoming.

research on it and certainly if we get that to the point of publication I will be sharing that so thank you very much and ⁓ yeah just stay sceptical but if we’ve got a new kid on the block that actually does what it says it does then ⁓ I am all in favour.