Step by Step Veterinary Physiotherapy: For Sport, For Work, For Life.

11/06/2026

Steroid injections: This topic comes up almost every week with my clients. The very best results happen when the vets, physio and human client work together on a plan to support the horse.

Clinically, I would summarise as follows:

Occasional corticosteroid joint injections can be highly beneficial and may help protect joints by reducing inflammation. However, repeated long-term use carries a risk of cartilage, sub chondral bone and joint tissue deterioration. They may mask progression of disease and should ideally be combined with rehabilitation and correction of underlying biomechanical problems (farriery, saddlery, rider and horse asymmetry) rather than relied upon as a sole treatment.

Sharon makes some very good points in her post on this subject.

10/06/2026

Hestaband UK /Step by Step is very proud to represent this brand in the UK

❓ Who starts a business in the middle of a pandemic❓
I did.
🎯 I kept hearing the same thing over and over again:
“Where do you get your tape?”

in 2020, I was using the kinesiology tapes I had developed over years of trial, testing, and multiple prototypes for my own practice. They were never supposed to be sold.. they were simply made for me and the clients I treated every day.

Then therapists started asking if they could get it too. More clinics began reaching out. Athletes were recommending it to each other. What started as something built quietly for my own practice was suddenly spreading far beyond it.

At the time, Hestaband™ didn’t exist. There was no brand. No company. No big plan. No investors. No great product launch.

Now Hestaband™ has become one of the most recognized kinesiology tape brands in the equine rehab world — with one of the LARGEST kinesiology tape collections in the world.

🖤 Over 20 tape selections.
🖤 Multiple wide roll options.
🖤 Satin. 🖤 Cotton. 🖤 And one very special Hestaband™ Lymph.

What started as something built for my own practice has grown into something far bigger than I ever imagined.

Team Hestaband™ continues to grow, and I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported this extraordinary journey along the way.

View the complete collection at hestaband.com

06/06/2026

“Let’s not call them arseholes”
UPDATED to include a reading of the original letter in the comments.
Thought provoking podcasts do have a listen.

In this podcast I hear 2 athletes (one from dressage and 1 from eventing), really struggling with goal orientated elite sport and their sure knowledge of the needs of horses. Bravo.

03/06/2026

Me! My focus this year has been on renewing manual therapy skills including taping and I am super excited for my first trip to Canada and a chance to study with Christa Veinotte.
The aim is to gain my certification and then train here in the UK at an advanced level.

Who's getting excited?!?
Me. I am.
I can't wait to see everyone next month for this course!

02/06/2026

Phew a busy 3 days, running a workshop on Sunday for physios in training and then back to some lovely horses on Mon and Tuesday

31/05/2026

Boxes packed workshop planned and we are off to the first Vet Physio networking day at the University of Nottingham. A great opportunity to showcase a new international collaboration between Canada and the UK.
Hestaband stands for excellence in the education and practice of kinesiology taping for horses and we are delighted to be on board!
Hestaband tape now available for local UK delivery.

31/05/2026

Bringing Hestaband products and expertise to the UK from Canada, a unique collaboration.

25/05/2026

Hot weather horsey life hack…

25/05/2026

Hot weather inexpensive hack.
A) Purchase online a plant mist set - choose a long length of mist hose, mine was 15m
B) My set came with a connector for the demister pipe direct to a tap but I needed a hose connector. Purchase hoze-lock part number 2289
C) Sit down with a cold drink and work out how far apart you need your mist nozzles. The kit includes all you need bar scissors to cut and fit your mist nozzles.
D) Connect up turn on and move with your drink to the mist and pat your horse.
Ps horse could go in the shelter and eat the hay with head out but I think he prefers this.
PPS Obviously can’t do this in a hose pipe ban and might be worth watching the water cost too, but for short periods. Genius.

24/05/2026

A super small stud breeding these rare gaited horses