Current Pathways Animal Therapy

25/03/2026

Why yes I do treat unicorns 🦄

05/11/2025

12/12/2024

🤷‍♀️ WHAT IS THE ELECTRO-ACUSCOPE AND MYOPULSE THERAPY SYSTEM?
The ATS Animal Calibrated Electro-Acuscope and Myopulse Therapy System is comprised of two FDA-approved microcurrent modalities that treat neuromuscular and musculoskeletal conditions; provide pain management and when applied correctly can affect a minimum of 50% accelerated recovery rates from most injuries.
🕵️HOW DOES IT WORK?
The system assists the body in healing itself by improving the circulation of blood and oxygen in the involved area and normalizing the electrical current in the nerves and muscles of damaged tissue resulting in a homeostatic state.
These non-invasive, focused, medical instruments have biofeedback capability; meaning they create a two-way communication with the body giving them the unique ability to target the specific cells and tissue fibers that are in need of treatment at that time. Through this two-way communication they are able to monitor the cellular function in a treatment area and continually adjust their output to deliver the amount of current needed to restore healthy function to deficient cells. Other electrical, laser, and magnetic instruments work through "output" only and can bombard the tissue, often times causing damage instead of enabling a healthy healing process.
🦸‍♀️WHAT DOES IT DO?
Treatments with the Electro-Acuscope and Myopulse Therapy System have been proven to:
Reduce inflammation
Increase circulation
Improve soft tissue function
Increase ATP production
Accelerate healing from open wounds, soft tissue and boney injuries
Improve range of motion
Provide pain management
Reduce scar tissue
Regenerate nerve function
🐴WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS SYSTEM?
Trained therapists are able to create individually tailored treatment programs that can benefit horses of all ages and competitive levels. Specific therapy goals can be targeted to achieve benefits for:
Young or lightly worked horses
Performance horses of all levels
Recently injured horses
Geriatric (elderly) horses
Horses with previous injuries or chronic conditions

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28/08/2023

This is to all my clients!

Sometimes… I’d say every day

26/05/2023

Where it all started

Discover the rehabilitative and preventive powers of equine physiotherapy on NFR horse Trent Tivio.

24/03/2023

New flyer 😊

06/12/2022

Let’s talk about obtaining a proper diagnosis

First thing is first. No Acuscope therapist, chiropractor, body worker etc has the authority to diagnose unless they are also a DVM. Only your veterinarian has the authority to diagnose, as monitored by the veterinary board. Can your acuscope therapist, chiropractor, body worker etc. suggest that something is not quite right with your horse and that you should consider having your vet out? Yes.

A unique aspect of the Acuscope is it does give the therapist biofeedback which tells us how well a certain area of the body is functioning. And for horses that have been our patients for a while, you start to know their norms, which makes it easy to identify when something is abnormal. While the Acuscope is able to give readings indicative of healthy or unhealthy, sometimes without a diagnosis it can be hard for your therapist to decipher which area is the primary problem and which area is unhealthy due to compensation, specifically when there are multiple areas that are low (unhealthy). This is why diagnostic work with your veterinarian is vital! It is not your Acuscope therapists’ job to diagnose, it is their job to heal.

Diagnostic work is very important because when a condition or injury is properly diagnosed I can be concentrated on the primary issue at hand and make an appropriate program for that horse. Acuscope therapists and veterinarians work best as a team, your primary veterinarian diagnoses and gives a prognosis then your Acuscope therapist can do their job of healing the injury (rehab) or slowing the progression of a chronic condition all while addressing compensatory areas and staying within the guidelines from your veterinarian.

I know diagnostic work can get expensive, trust me, I’m a horse owner too, and when they break out that ultrasound or x-ray machine dollar signs go through my brain. BUT without a proper diagnosis more times than not you will sit around spinning your wheels and possibly spend the same amount of money trying to go around properly diagnosing the problem.

So in short, Acuscope therapy is not to be used in place of veterinary work. Use them together!

24/10/2022

Very well written information on muscle contractions and why the Electro-Myopulse is superior to increasing blood circulation & optimizing performance 🤩

Let’s talk about muscle contractions and why the Electro-Myopulse is superior to increasing blood circulation & optimizing performance 🤩

To start, tetanic contraction (strong muscle contraction) causes muscle fatigue and with repeated use of strong stimulators that produce tetanic contraction the nerves can become damaged to the point that eventually the patient will not be able to feel the stimulation. For example, milli-amperage current will produce generally strong muscle contractions, which gives the appearance of a positive, relaxed state initially, but eventually will lead to muscle fiber exhaustion and with repeated use will lead to the detrimental results described above.

On the contrary, the ATS Electro-Myopulse utilizes micro-amperage and is programmed to continually monitor the tissue during treatment to only send the exact amount of corrective signal to the muscle. Tetanic contraction is impossible with the microcurrent slope waveform of the Myopulse, which means the tissue cannot be damaged because the Myopulse is utilizing microcurrent and also adjusting the output through the monitoring mechanism. The Myopulse leads to normalization of the muscle tissue by inducing a balanced electro-magnetic field. Circulation is improved by returning the muscles back to a relaxed state so that the muscle fibers are no longer constricted.

There are instances where clients have witnessed spasms during treatment in areas that are overly tense and the spasm visibly decreases over the course of the treatment. This response falls under the subjective response, which is detailed in the article “The Effect of the Myopulse On Improving Local Blood Circulation,” which states, “Spasms visibly release during treatment; tight muscles become loose and knots smooth out...A sense of lightness, looseness, and ease of movement is frequently reported. Resulting increasing range of motion when constriction is released is generally quite conspicuous.” This is a significant aspect of how the Myopulse compliments the Electro-Acuscope to provide a well rounded treatment.

References: “The Effect of the Myopulse on Improving Local Blood Circulation” per the FDA Marketing Approval