Horse chiropracters vs. accupressure?

[Cheryl Conklin <cherylco@mosaix.com>]

> Greetings,
> 
> I'm interested people's thoughts on accupressure.  Just had my horse
> worked up by someone using this (after he did a somersault this
> weekend - without me on him).  I've had Lucca worked up by
> chiropracters twice before and found them to be really effective (i.e.
> that lameness really turned out to be a slipped disk) but I hadn't run
> in to the accupressure before.
> 
> To be truthful, I'd been told that the person was a chiropracter, so I
> was a little disappointed when the person told me they worked muscles
> rather than looking at the bones at all; one of my biggest concerns
> was that Lucca could have thrown something out in the tumble.  The
> other thing that struck me as different is that the person told me
> that Lucca would actually be more sore the day after they did the
> accupressure; when the chiropracters worked him up, I saw instant
> improvement.
> 
> What are your thoughts?
> 
> Cheryl Conklin
> 
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