I provide Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy. PEMF therapy works at the cellular level to produce optimum cellular energy and health which is necessary for proper or accelerated healing of every anatomical part of the body. If we help the cells, we can help everything! A pulsating magnetic field or PEMF is said to produce one main result: stimulating cell metabolism and increasing oxygenation. This action is thought to cause a chain of processes in the body that leads to improvement of health without side effects. Some of the effects of PEMF are: increased circulation, enhanced muscle function, decreased inflammation and pain, increased tensile strength in ligaments, increased healing of skin wounds, enhanced capillary formation, accelerated nerve regeneration and bone healing, less tissue death, stress reduction, and bone healing. In equines, PEMF therapy can be used for: back pain, abscesses and bruised foot soles, muscle soreness/fatigue/atrophy, stifle osteoarthritis and synovitis, fetlocks and pastern joint osteoarthritis and synovitis, white line disease, carpal pain and bursitis, flexor and extensor tendonitis, suspensory ligament and ligament branch desmitis, sesamoiditis, coffin joint synovitis, navicular syndrome and navicular bone bursitis, poll osteoarthritis and nuchal ligament calcification, EPM, Anhidrosis, Cushings disease, laminitis, and founder.

To see how horses have responded to the therapy, please visit the Shady Grove Magna Wave Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/shadygrovemagnawave/

Riding to Recovery
Horses and healing for sick children
Riding to Recovery is a program now open under the direction of Lucia DiBenedetto at Stonelea Farm in Aldie, Virginia, providing emotional and spiritual healing using the horse. This program is dedicated to serving children with illnesses versus disabilities as one would find at a traditional therapeutic riding center. Children faced with acute illnesses, where medical treatments and endless hospital visits are an integral part of their life, need a mental as well as physical reprieve from their pain.

Riding to Recovery provides children with a much-needed pleasurable outlet and gives them an identity outside of being ill. Horseback riding, along with the close relationships children build through working with horses, is a life-affirming journey toward wellness.