just a dressage queen with major anxiety

I have always found the science itself to be meh. I had one eh experience with one, never really felt a difference or if I did, it was short term, and the second messed me up bad.

To be an equine chiropractor there is one of two routes - veterinarian first, then chiropractic school for horses, or human chiropractic doctorate, then back to chiro school specifically for horses.

Both scenarios are not ideal to me.

Human chiro to horse chiro, I don't trust they know enough about horses, their systems, and can fuck up because they don't fully understand it.

Vet to horse chiro, thats not their main field. I would trust a vet more as they're at least more familiar in the equine systems, but like most vets, it's rare to specialize so sometimes they don't know everything. (no shade, that's how it works)

I have seen chiropractors royally fuck up horses. I also find it very unlikely a 150-200 pound person can exert the pressure to align the bones and joints of a 1000lb plus animal. I also don't believe a horse can be "out" somewhere. If the horse is "out" in it's spine or it's ribs, I'm betting it broke it and you need rads.

Good biomechanic focused training, massage and better horsemanship practices can do the exact same thing these chiros claim as benefits.

As an equine massage therapist myself (200 hour in person certification, 6 years in business) I very rarely recommend chiropractic for any horse, and if someone asks I always tell them I won't use it. There are two local chiros in my area, and if someone desperately wants to use one, I always tell them to use vet to chiro path, it's a bit safer in my mind. Not super safe but safer.

There was one horse I knew growing up, who had a human to equine chiro work on him, and after, the horse was incredibly messed up. Basically unrideable after that.

Splat!!