Sport Horse Chiropractic

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Sport Horse Chiropractic Helping horses feel and perform their best — one adjustment at a time. Trusted by riders, trainers, and owners across the country. Based in Phoenix, AZ.

We specialize in equine chiropractic care that improves mobility, comfort, and athletic performance.

09/11/2026

You cannot palpate or directly release a horse’s psoas major from the topline.

The psoas major is a deep hypaxial muscle located ventral to the lumbar vertebrae and their transverse processes.

From the horse’s back, there is skin, fascia and substantial epaxial musculature between your hands and the lumbar transverse processes. In most horses, you can’t even clearly palpate the lumbar transverse processes through all of that muscle.

And the psoas major lies below them.

So when someone presses down through a horse’s topline and says they’re palpating and “releasing the psoas,” they aren’t directly accessing the psoas major.

Could a technique applied to the topline indirectly affect muscle tone, movement, posture or the nervous system? Yes. But indirectly affecting the psoas is not the same as palpating and manually releasing the psoas itself.

If you disagree, tell me exactly how your fingers are getting through the epaxial musculature, past the lumbar transverse processes and onto the psoas major.

Anatomy doesn’t change because we give a technique a name.

09/11/2026

Does your horse have good neck mobility on both sides? 🐴

Here’s a simple way I check.

I use this shoulder pressure point to encourage neck rotation and watch how easily the horse can bring her muzzle around toward each shoulder.

This mare has great movement in both directions—which is exactly what I want to see.

🎁 Want my FREE Neck Rotation Stretch that you can use with your own horse? Comment NECK and I’ll send it to you.

Save this video and compare your horse’s movement from side to side.

09/10/2026

🔊 Turn your sound ON for this one.

This mare was showing significant soreness through her low back.

I use the pelvic flexion reflex to encourage flexion through the pelvis and low back—and she gives us some BIG audible releases in the process. 😳

This is one of the techniques I teach in my Stretching Exercises for Horses eBook.

🎁 Want a pressure-point stretch you can use with your own horse’s back? Comment BACK and I’ll send you the tutorial FREE.

Save this one and listen closely. 🔊🐴

09/09/2026

She can get her muzzle to her shoulder—but look closely at how she gets there. 👀

In this video, I use a pressure point at the shoulder to encourage neck rotation. Her first attempt isn’t the movement I’m looking for.

After a couple of tries, watch how her movement changes and how she reaches the shoulder.

Sometimes getting to the destination isn’t the whole story. How the horse gets there matters.

🎁 Comment NECK and I’ll send you my FREE Neck Rotation Stretch.

09/08/2026

Why am I holding this beautiful palomino mare’s tongue? 👀

She was showing a significant pain response around her poll and hyoid before I worked on her.

This technique always gets people talking. I’m holding the tongue—not pulling it—while working with the hyoid and surrounding tissues.

Then I go back and check the exact same areas again.

Watch her response before and after and tell me what you notice.

🎁 Comment NECK and I’ll send you my FREE Neck Rotation Stretch.

09/06/2026

Want to improve your horse’s hind-end flexibility and mobility?

This is the Hind-End Flexion Stretch I use to work through the hip and stifle while stretching the muscles and soft tissues throughout the hind end.

It’s also something you can learn to do with your own horse at home, at the barn, or at a show.

🎁 Comment HIND or STIFLE and I’ll send you the complete stretch tutorial FREE.

Save this so you can try it with your horse.

09/05/2026

Part 3 Being expensive and being overpriced are NOT the same thing.

I recently had a potential out-of-state client contact me about working on her horses. Once she heard my rates and the minimum number of horses I need to make the trip, the conversation turned into why she couldn’t afford it—and why another chiropractor used to charge much less.

I understand budgets. Everyone has one. But your truck payment, trailer, farrier, dentist, mortgage, and other expenses don’t determine what another professional should charge for their service.

And if someone immediately starts discounting their work because you tell them they’re too expensive, I’d actually consider that a red flag.

Know what your work is worth. Charge accordingly. Your customer gets to decide if that value makes sense for them.

09/05/2026

Part 2 Being expensive and being overpriced are NOT the same thing.

I recently had a potential out-of-state client contact me about working on her horses. Once she heard my rates and the minimum number of horses I need to make the trip, the conversation turned into why she couldn’t afford it—and why another chiropractor used to charge much less.

I understand budgets. Everyone has one. But your truck payment, trailer, farrier, dentist, mortgage, and other expenses don’t determine what another professional should charge for their service.

And if someone immediately starts discounting their work because you tell them they’re too expensive, I’d actually consider that a red flag.

Know what your work is worth. Charge accordingly. Your customer gets to decide if that value makes sense for them.

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09/05/2026

Being expensive and being overpriced are NOT the same thing.

I recently had a potential out-of-state client contact me about working on her horses. Once she heard my rates and the minimum number of horses I need to make the trip, the conversation turned into why she couldn’t afford it—and why another chiropractor used to charge much less.

I understand budgets. Everyone has one. But your truck payment, trailer, farrier, dentist, mortgage, and other expenses don’t determine what another professional should charge for their service.

And if someone immediately starts discounting their work because you tell them they’re too expensive, I’d actually consider that a red flag.

Know what your work is worth. Charge accordingly. Your customer gets to decide if that value makes sense for them.

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3260 Hayden Road
Scottsdale, AZ
85251

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