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oxygen," Miss Ward explains. “That short circuits the muscle, and causes the spasms to go away.”
Later she went to graduate school in Stockbridge, Mass., to study myotherapy with Bonnie Pruden, the woman whose book had enabled Miss Ward to cure her father’s back.
Miss Ward’s studies were primarily on people. She first discovered her skills would work on animals when her dog was hit by a car.
“I started Working on her, and she looked up at me, jumped up and then ran off as though nothing had happened.” Miss Ward explains. “So, then I started working on animals and I started doing better than people.”
Animals seem to respond faster to the treatment, Miss Ward believes, because they don’t have any of the doubts and psychological hangups of people about such methods.
“Horses know if someone is coming up to them with soft gentle hands that it’s going to make them feel good,” she explains. “It feels so good for someone to touch them that way — they’ve got to appreciate it.”
Miss Ward moved to Virginia last year to be able to work on animals, particularly horses. Today she lives in Aldie and works on horses of all types and ages in the Middleburg-Warrenton area.
By using pressure and exercise, myotherapy improves a horse’s neuro-muscular system which improves his ability and willingness to perform. The treatment gets rid of spasms and tightness in muscles which gives better circulation, flexibility and range of motion in the joints and limbs and also improves suppleness and impulsion in the muscles.
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