I have noticed a difference in my horse using it before riding, but just started aftwards a bit as well and he likes different areas then. Guess now I’m doing it twice per ride. Superman arms by summer!
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my mare (who in general just tolerates being groomed) is either ambivalent or irritated by this before the ride. but after the ride she can’t get enough! interesting.
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Have you tried using hardly any pressure? Starting there? I find with my guy - PSSM2 that if I start really light that I can build to more. But I do still keep it pretty darn light. Not sinking into tissue by any means. Hopefully someday.
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The skin is the largest organ and it need to be freely movable everywhere which helps range of motion of the joints and muscles below as well as the lymphatics circulation. So the short 3-5 inch cross fiber to loosen the skin is first and foremost. Some areas “Weegy board light” strokes.
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Any Canadians here find a way to get the Posture Prep here in Canada? At a reasonable price? Ie no more than $30?
Edited to include cost
No. I got mine through Amazon.com and it was more than $30 
and a PITA to actually get it - took forever.
I like it, the horses like it, I have given positive reviews to a few people, but unless it becomes available at a much cheaper price, I can’t think anyone is going to order and that’s a shame because I think it’s a useful tool.
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I would definitely purchase a bunch as gifts if we could get them to Canada for a reasonable price.
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From babyhood, my red mare has always disliked grooming, so much so that she would bite the air if she saw me approach with the brush. I tried different brushes, different pressures - hated it all. When I saddle her, I do the fastest possible, least invasive dust off that will work.
I brought out the PP thinking it’d get more of the same pissy-faced reaction. Nope. Loves it.
Horses are weird.
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You ain’t kidding. My youngster loves being groomed, but he’s generally impartial to the Posture Prep. I’ve watched many a video and done some reading to make sure I’m using it correctly, and I pay attention to his body and body language, but I generally get no reaction. Once in awhile I’ll get a little something, but I get more reaction (positive) out of a regular curry session.
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What an excellent visual. Now that’s light. 
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My mare is exactly the same. I can’t believe after all of these years I finally found a grooming tool she likes.
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Weegy board light short strokes 30-60 seconds. Especially across spine and longissimus if they show tension, twitching or other disfavor, move forward if you do not get a release in the 30 to 60 seconds as it may be related to muscles attached further forward toward the shoulders or withers.
Often just releasing the adhesions between the skin and the superficial fascia of the muscles below can be huge. The skin is the largest organs and is their clothes We all need to be comfortable in the skin we are in.
Like moving the skin across the back of your hand. When your are petting them across their coat it should feel like moving water across a glass top table.
The body is a fluid system you can find it, feel it and fix the beneath the skin. You can lunge a horse and see the restrictions and release them
This older video of a chestnut horse you can see the fluidness of the skin across the bony area of the shoulder blade See at 10:30 seconds.
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If the cat curry by Kong Zoom Groom had the centre tines trimmed, would it be similar to the Posture Prep? I can get the Kong Zoom Groom but not the PP. I have a grooma type black rubber curry. What if I cut the tips off the centre tines? Would that be close enough?
I emailed the company but didn’t get a reply (I’m assuming that means they don’t ship to Canada).
I have the dog and the cat Kong groomers up north. They are small and if I remember right they were very small. So I would say no. and all the tines are the same.
I got my Zoom Groom Cat curry and my Zoom Groom Dog curry out and compared them to the Posture Prep cross fiber Human and Horse tools.
The spikes on the Zoom Groom Cat curry are much wimpier than the spikes on either of the Posture Preps I have. The spikes on the Zoom Groom Dog curry are a bit stiffer though not quite as stiff as the PPs. Neither the Cat curry or Dog curry has spikes as stiff as the Human Posture Prep (which is milder than the Horse PP or Dog PP.)
If there is a way that you can get a clean, flat surface on the center tines of the Dog Zoom Groom curry it might be worth a try. It won’t be exactly the same but if you cannot get the PP I would go for it as I doubt it would hurt the horse at all. (I have used the Zoom Groom Dog curry on the horses, the ones with slightly less sensitive skin than the ones who need the softness of the Zoom Groom Cat curry.)
I bought both of my Zoom Groom curries from Chewy.com.
You can try this website in USA to see cost of shipping to Canada
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Looks pretty reasonable, thanks! Except for some reason it won’t accept my shipping address.
Hell with it.
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Let me know how it goes. Fingers crossed in the next month or two the interested retailer in Canada will start to carry them.
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Nope, same as before. It will not ship to Canada.
The only way Canadians can get them is to take a royal gouging and screwing from Amazon.com, have Amazon.com’s shipper lose it a time or two, re-ship with a ridiculous shipping date that then gets changed five times. Eventually the thing shows up about 2-3 months after ordering. At least by that time you’ve mostly forgotten that you spent just shy of $50 on a &#^% curry comb. Lots of other companies, big and small, are able to ship to Canada without this kind of BS
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