I got a wonderful call today from one of our customers who has been using the VibraVM for over a year. Her initial story can be found in the General Interest section. Margaret was very excited to share with us the fact she just won a competition where she never thought her horse would ever even walk through. She also shared her protocols that has worked for her "heavey" horse. She is in the "maintenance" phase and found that Augie has responded well to a ONCE A WEEK TREATMENT.

We share her joy and will add pictures from the competition as soon as they arrive.

This has been a bad month for my family. Shirley had to be put down. She had a condition where she continually lost albumin. She was a real fighter and we will miss her dearly.

I spent the day listening to a really interesting horse trainer. Larry Whitesell trains gaited horses all over the country. Larry purchased a VibraVM in August of last year. His horse's respiration rate was 54 per minute. His love for this horse pushed him to consider putting her down. After a two months of treatment, the respiration rate dropped to 22 per minute. Even after a long clinic, the respiration rate has dropped to the high teens.

The horse's behavior improved and is now one of his best rider training horses.

I was takling with a long time user the other day and she gave me her current protocol. The horse had been doing great but it had settled into a routine. She was treating her horse about every two days. If she went longer than three days, the heaves symptoms slowly returned. We tried an intensive protocol for a week to see if a change in routine would help.

Surprise, the cough came back for a few days, mild drainage also came back. After a few days--the coughing stopped and the nose dried out.

If you have been treating your horse for a long time--simple suggestion--change your routine and help your horse!!

Call us at VibraLung so we can help you choose a short protocol change.

This past week was a real milestone for VibraLung and the VibraVM. I was invited (actually I invited myself) to demonstrate the VibraVM to the Medicine Division. The reputation of the clinic is unmatched in the US for quality of service. Driving through the complex to the clinic really gave you a feeling of security if you brought a horse to Hagyard for any problem.

The complex sits on 98 acres across for the Kentucky Horse Park. The area is simply magnificent!!

I was able to spend more than two hours with 20+ vetrinarians and technicians describing all of the features of the VibraVM and then conducting a wet lab demonstration. The questions from the staff were incisive and the wet lab went very well. The horse they brought for the demo was perfect and the results were all that I could have asked for.

Talk about southern hospitality. The BEST!!

The VibraLung team in now back in the office. We drove to the San Diego conference from Parker, CO. The weather through the mountiains was real bad so we took the southern route through Tucson, AZ. The scenery and the weather were perfect for the trip down. I got to fly back so I missed the bad weather on the return trip.

The AAEP (American Association of Equine Practioners) is a really fun group. This is a bunch of vets who are totally dedicated to the health of horses. The vets and vendors had plenty of time to visit and understand what everyone was selling.

We introduced the VibraVM at AAEP three years ago. We were not very well received because at that time we only had a few in the field and we did not have any "SCIENCE" to back up any of our claims. This year was very different. We had just fininished a dairy calf study at Colorado State University Vet school with good results and we are in the middle of a "heavey" horse study at Perdue University Vet School. We had great handouts for our race horse protocol and our standard equine protocol that answered most of the normal questions.

The conversations are a lot more fun when you have the SCIENCE to back up your sales pitch! Another difference from three years ago was all of the horses, dogs and cats that have been treated by the VibraVM.

The best thing about the AAEP this year was the new faces that stopped by the booth for a full demo.

Another week and more great stories. A call from a horse trainer and he tells one of the best results we could have ever asked for. He bought a VibraVM the first week in August. His prize horse was 12 years old and it had not be able to perform for more than a year. After a month of treatments, the owner began a slow return to training. After several weeks of training he felt the horse was back at a level where he could take the horse back on the road.

That call brought me chills. The horse had been on the road for three weeks and in his words "was back". We will have before and after videos of the horse posted on the web site in the next few weeks. I love this job.

Another call from Canada was another great report on a the treatment of three different horses who were on the road back to to health.

It is really frustrating some days that we cannot get the story of the VibraVM to every vet in the country. The VibraVM can't fix everything but what it can do is help an animal with respiratory issues. I love this machine.

VibraLung has been selling VibraVM units all over the world. We realizied that we had not even approached the vets in the city of Parker, CO. We made a short trip through the city visiting clinics close to the office. The reception from all of the offices visited really excited us.

We only took a few minutes at each office to hand out our brochure and an introductory letter. What really got our attention was the quality of the questions and the near immediate understanding of the operational concept of the VibraVM. At one office we even got a suggested use for the device. (subject for another day)

Friday was a great day!!

For the past 12 days we have been helping harvest corn and beans in Iowa. The weather was near perfect but the combines were a little less than perfect.

While I was in Iowa, we were able to treat and give demos to several horse owners. The one thing that I took away from the demos was the ease in acclimating all of the horses. If you follow the simple instructions, the horse will easily take to the VibraVM.

We stopped and visited with two clients that have been treating their horses with the VibraVM. It was great to see the real hands on successes of the device. It was also gratifying to hear the excitement in the clients voice and they tell their stories. Take a look at ICE in our PHOTO section and you will see a horse the owner was seriously thinking of putting down. It made the whole trip worth while.

There was one cat that had nasal drainage and we tried to treat it in our lap. We were lucky Candid Camera was not there or we would have made their top billing. A cat needs to be TIGHTLY wrapped in a towel or blanket---for your safety!! The cat was not really happy about the treatment and we were not prepared. Don't try a cat treatment without proper preparation.

We received calls from several clients that really got our attention. The calls were stories about the improvements in the respiratory rates, improvements in the appetites, and changes in their overall personalities. It's calls like that really keep you going.

Wheezers and Coughers!!

We have treated a large number of "heavy" horses and I have been seeing a very interesting trend. Historically, we get orders from horse owners when their vets have tried everything else and their horse is not responding to any of the normally proscribed medicines. The breathing rate usually exceeds 40 breaths per minute. We have reports of 60+ breaths per minute.

Our standard protocol for a heavy horse is for the first week is to treat twice a day on the LOW setting with at least two minutes of massage. The second week we ask the owner to treat twice a day on the HIGH setting plus massage. By the end of the second week the breathing rate is usually half of the starting rate. It is at the end of the second week we start tweaking the protocol to match the symptoms. If the horse is wheezing or continues to cough, we add more MASSAGE time to the treatment. Usually by the end of the second week we advise the owner to only treat once a day on HIGH. Adding MASSAGE to the treatment really helps with both wheezing and coughing. The clients are asked to continue to track the respiration rate. We have to remind the clents that REMODELING the lung will just take time.

As the horse gets better and better, it will tell you if frequency of the treatments still match the protocol. What we have again found on MAINTENANCE, you have to treat at least every three days to maintain a healthy horse.