Welcome to my site! My name is Tralauney Thomas, I am a Certified Equine Therapist providing care to Alberta's horses. I began my education as a Certified Equine Chiropractic Therapist by graduating from Helen J Woods Equine Therapy School in 2007. Prior to that I worked in EMS as a Registered Emergency Medical Technician for 6 years. I have 5 years of work experience as a Veterinary Assistant. I have also received my Certified Equine Massage Therapy Training.

I have done my best to surround myself with horses all my life and probably much like yourself was born with the "horse addiction". My career interests have always been medically oriented and I feel that I have finally found an outlet that is both therapeutic to my patients and myself.

I absolutely Love this work! I genuinely care about the health and well being of every horse I meet and there is nothing more rewarding to me than knowing that I have helped to ease an animals pain. I am dedicated in building the bond between you and your horse by improving it's willingness, happiness and health. I look forward to working with you both.

My Eduction and Training Includes:

• Anatomy of the Horse
• Correct movement in all gaits
• Conformation: correct and incorrect-causing lameness and stress
• Lameness: overall view of general types encountered, lame and unnatural movement
• Homeopathy for horses
• Horse shoeing overview: examining correct shoeing practices and those that will cause lameness
• Chiropractic care - maneuvering of the vertebrae and positioning of structure
• Saddle fitting and proper padding for english and western
• Massage and acupressure, stress points, and proper use of the hands
• Study of personal case histories
• Practical experience - uses of Chiropractic and Massage (hands-on training)
• Review of student case histories and charts for a six month period after course
• Business management, advertising, servicing customers successfully
• Massage theory, principles of massage, massage manipulations, and their applications and effects on various systems
• The manipulations of massage, their proper names, and how each movement is unique.
• The phases of injury, and how massage relates to injury
• Hydrotherapy uses and applications
• Contraindications of massage
• Palpation procedures
• Muscle tissue assessment
• Lower limb swelling reduction
• Conformation assessment and how it relates to massage
• Massage Assessment
• Stretching and muscle extensibility
• Advanced massage techniques