DOMS STaR

The day after unfamiliar or intense work, muscles answer back: stiff, sore and short of their usual spring. It is a normal response to new load — micro-stress in the fibres and metabolic leftovers — and it recovers faster with help.

Consider this program when:

• the horse is stiff and flat the day after hard work
• new work — first hill day, first cross-country school — has left its mark
• soreness sits in a specific worked group
• competition days follow each other closely

Local work on the sore group plus whole-body drainage in one treatment. Severe stiffness, dark urine or distress is tying-up until proven otherwise — that is a vet call, immediately.