Equine Rehabilitation Programs

Rehabilitation programs at Core Equine begin with a thorough biomechanical consultation. During that session, I combine a hands-on physical examination, objective gait assessment, and chiropractic evaluation to build a complete picture of how your horse is moving and where the problem originates. Depending on what we find, diagnostic nerve blocks or imaging may be included on the day to help localise any lameness.

From that consultation, a tailored rehabilitation or conditioning program is designed around your horse's specific findings, workload, and goals.

Delivered through the EQ Active platform

Your program is delivered through the EQ Active app, which provides clear video demonstrations, written instructions, and prescribed sets and reps for every exercise. There is a tracking feature so you can log how your horse is progressing, and a direct feedback channel to ask questions or flag anything between visits.

The aim is a program you can actually follow at home, with enough detail to perform exercises correctly and enough support to adjust when things come up.

What we prescribe

Programs draw on a wide range of exercises and interventions tailored to where your horse is in their recovery or conditioning. These include pole exercises, ground activation work, pad exercises, echo band exercises, groundwork exercises, and gymnastic workouts.

Everything is adjusted over time based on follow-up consultations and progress monitoring. For horses where tracking movement change is a priority, gait analysis through the SLEAP app can be integrated to give an objective record of how things are improving.

Who this is for

Rehabilitation programs suit horses recovering from soft tissue injury, returning to work after extended time off, or showing changes in movement and performance under saddle. They are also used as part of ongoing soundness management for performance horses.

Not sure where to start? [Book an Appointment] will help you find the right first step.

Once you paste this into the Wix editor on that page, the video can stay right where it is — it'll complement the copy nicely, essentially as a visual demo of what the EQ Active platform looks like in practice. That page will go from invisible to Google to genuinely indexable.

Two small questions before you paste it: do you want to mention EQ Active by name (I've kept it in), and is there a specific page you'd want the "Book an Appointment" link to point to — the decision tree page at /book-an-appointment?

You said: Any comments on layout/imagery

Any comments on layout/imagery

Claude responded: Yes, a few strong opinions here.

Thought process

Thought process

Yes, a few strong opinions here.

The video — right now it's a full-screen black void with a play button, which is what caused Google to ignore the page entirely. It shouldn't be leading the page. Move it down to its own section further in the page, below the intro text and the EQ Active explanation. Give it a heading above it, something like "See EQ Active in action" so it has context. A contained video player in a section (not full bleed) looks more intentional and less like a broken page.

Hero section — the opening section should have your H1 and intro paragraph alongside an action image of you working with a horse. Not a stock photo, ideally something showing a physical exam or gait assessment since that's exactly what this page is about. The connection between "this starts with a consultation" and seeing you actually doing that work is strong. Blush or cream background, same as your other service pages.

EQ Active section — this deserves its own visual treatment because it's your actual differentiator. A screenshot of the app itself (either from EQ Active's own materials or a phone mockup showing the interface) would do a lot of work here. If you put that on a navy background with white text it gives the section visual weight and signals "this is something different." Most equine vets don't have a platform like this — it should look like a feature, not a footnote.

The exercise list — this is where the video could actually live, or you could use small icons alongside each exercise type. Nothing elaborate, just enough to break up the text visually.

One image to prioritise if you're getting new photos: a horse doing pole exercises or something showing the rehab work in practice. That one image would carry the whole page.

Does EQ Active have any branded assets or app screenshots you could use?

 

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