Ralph: The Western Pleasure Horse with EPM, Hock, and Teeth Issues

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Join us for Holistic Horseworks Live, where founder April Love uses her intuitive abilities to scan horses and reveal what’s really going on.
You’ll see her identify misalignments, pain points, and the root causes behind behavioral and health issues—things that often get missed by traditional approaches.

Ralph is a 9-year-old quarter horse ranch pleasure gelding who came to Joni with a history of yearly hock injections, intermittent front end lameness, and a personality that had recently shifted — grouchy, bitey, spooky, and dunking his hay in his water bucket. April’s distance reading flagged viral and bacterial issues and asked if Ralph had ever been tested for EPM. Joni took him to an EPM specialist who confirmed the diagnosis.

April also identified first rib misalignment driving the hocks too close together, cranial compression affecting his TMJ and dental patterns, and explains why his hooks and waves keep coming back on the same side every six months. Joni is enrolled in Level 1: Equine Musculoskeletal Unwinding, shares what the distance reading experience was like, and what it means to finally have answers that actually connect the dots.

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April can read your horse’s body from a few photos and intuit exactly how to help them with their unique health issues. But, this works best when you’re enrolled in the Level 1: Equine Musculoskeletal Unwinding online course or hands-on clinic, so you know what to do with the information.