Comprehensive Equine Health Assessment for Professional Riding Coaches
This course provides professional riding coaches with a holistic approach to equine health. Participants will acquire essential skills, including correctly palpating the horse’s muscles to assess for abnormalities and discomfort and also how to correctly take and know the ranges of vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration and more as these are clear indicators when something isn’t right.
These skills are instrumental when evaluating the health and comfort of horses and can be used: before, during, and after coaching sessions, ensuring the highest standards of care for their clients' horses.
It’s essential that you have these skills especially if a horse isn’t performing during your lesson, then you can assess it and depending on the health assessment outcomes, horses can be referred to other professionals for ongoing care. This ensures a holistic and team approach to maximise health and wellbeing.
(2 CPD Points)
“I’ve had horses in my lessons that I know haven’t been right and now I can confidently assess them. I feel this gives me valuable skills as a professional and everyone connected to horses should know how to palpate and take vital signs. I have done all of the courses for riding coaches and more and can’t thank EMA enough for the great resources they provide.”
Dedicated learner of EMA
Licensed Coach, Canada