Injuries cause delays in riding competition and can shorten both the rider's and horse's career.
It takes many hours to treat the injury-hours that could be spent training and improving skills. It resulted from proven therapy for the human spinal cord injury market. When a person sustains a spinal cord injury or stroke, the body is not very efficient at circulation and wound healing. It takes the help of sophisticated technology to replace these functions that were once taken for granted. Not surprisingly, there are many parallels between human and horse limbs.