What's New?
In April 2011, Lorre started a 3 year training program with the Vluggen Institute in
San Marcos, TX for Equine Osteopathy. If all goes well, Lorre will be certified as an
Equine Diplomat of Osteopathy (EDO®, which is an International Registered Mark,
regulated and formulated by the International Association of Equine Osteopaths® and the International Register of Equine Osteopaths®). The EDO® mark was created so that the
equine osteopath can be recognized by veterinarians and the horse community as being capable, educated and regulated by and to the highest standards available in the field to date.
Osteopathy is a philosophy and system of alternative healing that focuses on the reciprocal relationship between structure and function and the body’s ability to self-heal. The role of the osteopath is to facilitate that self-healing process by treating the body as a whole. In 1874, osteopathy was first introduced in the United States by Andrew Taylor Still, physician and surgeon who had become dissatisfied with conventional medicine of the time. Equine Osteopathy has been adapted from human osteopathy to meet the structural and physical needs of the horse. Dominique Giniaux, French Veterinarian is widely accepted as being one of the first people to apply osteopathy to horses. Advancing the concepts are such osteopaths as Pascal Evrard and Janek Vluggen. In conjunction with veterinary medicine, equine osteopathy, with its holistic approach, treats the horse as a whole, realizing that you cannot influence one part without influencing the whole and that it may mean the symptoms are found far from where the problem lies.