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Wellness Wednesday - The Sanctuary Equine Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Center Focuses on Ocala, While PBIEC Serves Competitors with Equine Conditioning Center
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
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The Sanctuary’s 30-acre, state of the art facility in Ocala, Florida
Horses from South Florida will continue to have access to the Sanctuary’s Ocala campus, a multi-million dollar facility designed to provide the absolute epitome of conditioning and rehabilitation for equine athletes. Not surprisingly, the Sanctuary has an unparalleled success record for returning horses back to work. In addition, the Ocala facility coined the term ‘prehab,’ to describe their preventative conditioning treatments designed to reduce the risk of injury for high performance horses.
As a premiere full-service therapeutic facility now located solely in Ocala, the Sanctuary has also branched out to offer mobility to their clients. Their state-of-the-art mobile unit will continue to travel to various shows across the country this summer to ensure that the equine athletes competing there have the absolute best in terms of rehabilitation and conditioning services. The cutting-edge, advanced technologies, based on therapies used by professional athletes, will be accessible to competition horses wherever the Sanctuary mobile unit is onsite.
In addition to offering the most cutting edge and effective treatments, The Sanctuary is unique in that its technicians have years of experience and specialize in specific treatments, These certified technicians are experts in using the state of the art equipment, and work in tandem with supervising veterinarians to provide customized, individual programs for each horse.
“Our goal, first and foremost, is to send every horse home in the best condition possible as well as physically and mentally sound,” explains Brenda McDuffee, the Sanctuary’s General Manager. “The Sanctuary is well named because it is a haven for horses with all kinds of issues, from lacerations, chronic pain, joint, tendon, or muscle injuries, fractures, or basically any other ailment. No matter the problem, The Sanctuary will have a treatment to benefit the animal and a certified technician on hand to administer that treatment”.
With their rare combination of equipment, experience, knowledge, and training, The Sanctuary provides the most comprehensive and effective care for equine athletes. Savvy equestrians from a multitude of disciplines have quickly recognized the Sanctuary as the finest, most comprehensive facility of its kind in the world. The Sanctuary offers the ultimate care for the rehabilitation and conditioning of our Equine partners. With recent technology, the Sanctuary has developed supplemental training courses for their technicians to match the advances in the industry and bring those advances to the horse.
The Sanctuary Equine Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Center’s campus is located in Ocala, Florida. The 30-acre, state-of-the-art facility is a multi-million dollar rehabilitation and conditioning facility that features the most advanced conditioning and equipment available in the world today. The Cold Saltwater Leg Spa is the ideal treatment for legs. The 35-degree turbulated saltwater eliminates pain, reduces swelling and inflammation, removes heat, increases circulation, relieves sore feet, and speeds healing. The Sanctuary also offers an Equine Hyperbaric Chamber, which is a box stall type for freedom of movement while therapy is administered, an Aqua Pacer Water Treadmill - the safest, most effective water treadmill available, a 110 foot long, 14 foot deep inline equine swimming pool with therapeutic water, a 5/8 mile race track, two Eurocisers with therapeutic tracking surface – one covered and one outdoors, Solariums, and a temperature-controlled veterinary inspection area with semi-surgical lighting, and rubberized surfaces in most areas.
For more information on the Sanctuary Equine Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Center visit www.sanctuaryequinerehab.com
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