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SturmRanch@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Fascinating reading!  My kids work with a physical therapist who, in 
> addition to more typical physical therapy, does cranial facial work.  
> She is a student of a doctor whose name I can't remember how to 
> spell:  something like John Uplanger(?)
>  
Upledger

> Does this article suggest that this heart rate response is common to 
> all mammals?  Does that mean that if I found the appropriate spot to 
> massage on the face of my horse (who is a TWH and pulses down 
> comaparively slowly) that I could help him to pulse down more quickly?
>  
> I'm not sure what spot on a horse's face would correspond to the spot 
> this article suggests.  I'm not sure he would love an application of 
> ice water, and I can almost guarantee he would resist submerging his 
> face in ice water,  but he might buy into a massage.
>  
>  
> Nancy Sturm


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of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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