If you love horses watch this!! The outlaw horse in pain 

I'm not a horse person, but I have human medical training. Right at the beginning of the video (after the tie up), you can see the horse walking gingerly and lopsidedly on its hind feet, picking one up and favoring one side. I couldn't tell if it was a tender hoof or a spinal problem at that point, but it definitely looked off. Later in the video, when part of the neck and hip pain is relieved, you can see how good natured the animal is and not highstrung at all, letting the chiropractor tap and adjust the rest of his pain with little fuss. I'm impressed.

WOW 🥺 sad for this beautiful horse. It's seems like he is showing appreciation for The help he is getting from this wonderful man. God bless him.

Im Impressed, God Bless people who are good with animals

Just the most touching demonstration I have ever seen. It is most wrenching to think how much this more horse has had to deal with the fear and knowledge that "here comes the pain."

Amazing attention to details of the horse’s pain

Thank you ED for all you do. And sharing 💓 this video.

I watched this video in fascination. I am not at all experienced with horse behaviour, and the knowledgable reader may well laugh at my thoughts; but I think if this were just a mean or malicious horse, then he'd be fighting hard against this man. But with all the pain this animal is experiencing, he's really being very sweet. He comes right back to the trainer/chiropractor after each incident. If I were having such pain and someone was deliberately hurting those sore spots, I'd be cranky and maybe even bite back ;-) . But this horse doesn't do any of that, just attempts to get away from the pain. And yes, he has understandibly learned poor manners through all of that. I'm so pleased that this dear horse finally found someone who was able to correctly diagnose the real problem. It touched my heart to see the care this man had for this horse, and the horses' response. And kudos to the owner for not giving up on this lovely animal!

You, Sir are a wonderful, kind man. I'm sure the horses that you work with on a regular basis see you and think "that guy is magic" and "I'm gonna feel much better now that my savior is here". It takes a true animal lover to listen to the horses the way you do. God Bless you for your work. I think there should be more people like you in the world. Cheers!

Every horse owner should see this. Bless you for doing what you do

What an amazing change! More folks need to recognize that pain in most cases is the issue.

A horse doesn’t care how much you know until he knows how much you care. Good job Sir!!

God bless you! It's rarely the horse, rather what people have caused. I could tell from the beginning that he did not want to be this way. He kept coming right back to you, even licking and chewing. He did the same thing as you were adjusting him. What a beautiful animal! I had this same kind of thing years ago when I adopted a lovely horse that everyone told me I was crazy for owning. Got hold of a lady who did chiropractic adjusting and laser acupuncture. She told me exactly what was out. Within minutes she was a different horse. This was a lucky horse; many aren't.

Thank you sir for this very informative video. I have had horses for many years and I have seen almost everything. I am so glad you could help this poor horse. I know there are horse chiropractors like you . There are not enough of people like you to go around to treat the many horses who need pain relief. Keep up the great work and thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. God Bless

As a teen, I had a big quarter horse that was good natured. I could go out into the field and get on his back without a bridle or saddle. He didn't care at all. But he would pitch a fit over a bridle, rubbing it against his leg, when all suited up, he wouldn't cooperate riding. He'd buck you all over the field. At the time I thought he was spoiled and that I had made more of a pet out of him than a riding horse, which to some extent I had. But, looking back, it may have been something about the bridle that was hurting him. Great video. This guy really knows his horses.

This video brought tears of joy to my eyes.. So happy to see you helping him.. 💞💖💞

The horse wants to stare at the camera and be the show ...beautiful baby

Beautiful horse.

This man is definitely good with horses. I would never have imagined Chiropractic Care for horses. Brilliant!

When you are in pain, nothing is right, nothing. When you are an animal and cannot tell someone that you hurt and where you hurt, it must feel like an impossible situation. Mr. Crothers, because of his expertise and his great ability to observe, is a lifesaver to horses.

Amazing. Such a beautiful horse with such painful problems. I wish horse owners would take the time to listen to what the horse is trying to tell them. It's nice to see you take such gentle care of this one. Please, keep updates coming on this horse.

I wish more people would look at pain for equine behavioral issues. I can’t imagine how miserable this sweet horse has felt. It floored me when he showed immediate pain relief by licking his lips after the first adjustment at the poll. Big thumbs up for this video. BUT I wondered how a horse that won’t take a saddle has muscle development in his rear end and canter muscles over his croup. Then I’m pretty sure I heard him say they lunge him for a ‘couple of hours’!!! Running in small circles for more than a few minutes can cause anatomical problems in the most sound horses (or any person/animal). Especially one that doesn’t have self carriage. I hope I misunderstood him. He seems like he is a great gift to horses. But if they really are lunging him for ‘a couple hours’, he’s lucky to be as sound as he is.

A Chiropractor for horses... very cool ! 👍🏼 🐎❤️

You are preaching to the choir with me. Well done and bless you got what you do and educating others!

Yes he seems a lot more relaxed ☺️

Too cool. I was very fortunate in getting to work with an equine adjuster/chiropractor and it blew my mind I knew my horse was out of whack but had no idea how to fix it. She came down (the adjuster) and within minutes, we saw results. Love this video

WOW! What an amazing turn around. This beauty is clearly thankful to you Ed Crothers. Thank you for what you do. And thank you for sharing this video to help educate others. It makes sense once one sees it. WOW!

First time I have seen chiropractic on a horse. Brilliant!

He is a beautiful animal... I am happy that he found the release from the pain that he needed. More people need to understand that horses cannot tell you that they hurt. its up to the owners to find out why they are doing certain behaviors. my very first thing that I do when I get a horse in, or buy a horse is to go over the basics on the ground and check for any pain signs... if you do not pay attention to this, there is no sense in trying to train the horse, as you can do more damage and cause bad "learned" behaviors that can be difficult to fix.

that horse reminds me of some of my massage clients.

I love how you don't try to intimidate him with tools Seen this woman doing it without a harness and leash and that really made sense to me We have to learn their language because they'll never start talking in ours

A horse chiropractor?!! Don't think I've ever seen one before.. This is pretty cool..

Poor horse has been in pain for a while. You can see it's eager to please, just in a lot of neck and hip pain. Such a shame. It's whole alignment must be completely out.

Horses can definitely act out because of pain, mine was labelled "dangerous" and unridable; I even had farrier, trainers, etc. telling me to put him down. A major problem was he had unusually high withers and a "steepled" back rather than a flattish or round one. He fought the saddle as soon as you tried to put it on. I found an old McLellan-type saddle for him that worked wonders; it didn't touch the center of the horse's back but rests on either side of the backbone, ( it must fit the individual horse). Always worth trying to figure out if the horse is comfortable.

312 dislikes because what?! Because the dislike button is there? He wasn't abusing this horse, he probably saved him from being destroyed

Sad I didn't find this sooner. First western trainer I've seen ever address this issue, this way - kudos! Tired of watching 'problem' horses run ragged in the round pen. (Monty Hall, et all...) I was lucky enough to witness this type of 'pain vs behavior' treatment in the UK in the mid 1980s. Came back to US a few years later and had to really search it out as no one had heard of this approach. Unfortunately, it's still few and far between among anything other than almost Olympic calibre training facilities, and still mostly in Europe and by European trainers/riders. Pain should be taken into consideration whenever horses act out.

You got to train me to fix horse pain,WOW!!!!

Love this! Thank you

People think they have to be the boss of their horse, but what you have to do is learn to listen to your horse, they tell you what's going on and they can keep you out of trouble too.

the ulcer probably will go away once all the pain's gone, if he got the ulcer from worrying about the pain, very sad story with a happy ending👌

This is a kind gentle man you can tell he respects the horse we need more people like him I tip the hat to you sir with all do respect

Where have you been hiding? Equine need people like you. The horse is horse. We are human. You are good! You saw it!!

Your a have great experience, knowledge, and patience. Keep passing it on.

Is there a follow-up video on this horse? I would love to see the final results.

Lickin his lips like the good ol boy that he is. He looks very smart he does listen just in pain! Wow when he dropped his head after that first adjustment was amazing!!! His trot! Wow!

Very good Mr. Crothers! GOD;S creatures are so beautiful! Thank you, was beautiful to look at!

I've had neck, shoulder, back pain and I've gone to a chiropractor. They always helped me. I call it snap crackle pop. lol

Really good job. Very impressive. I have always been skeptical of chiropractors but I think I'm changing my mind.

It wasn't discussed in the video, but I noticed that this horse carried its tail up and out, stiffly. After treatments, the tail was carried normally, hanging straight down softly. I have observed this many times in a horse in spinal pain. If the tail isn't right, seems the spine isn't right. Once everything is softly in alignment, the tail hangs properly. So if you think your horse has pain, check the tail.

Great Video. To all those nay-sayers....I've had a bad back on/off for the last 20 years, and I felt just like the horse! When the physical therapist would push his thumb in the right place (the sore spot) I'd feel like he had just stabbed me with a knife and my whole body would just about jump off the table. In the video, he's using a piece of wood to find the sore spots, probably because a horses hide is much thicker than human skin, so he needs more pressure to find them. I give this guy tons of credit. Chiropractic adjustment can be very uncomfortable, the relief comes later. But you can't tell a horse that, the horse has to learn to trust that he'll live through this, and the relief will come later. Great job guy!!!

I know you said that this is a horse that does not listen, yet by the 7th minute into the video, I was convinced he was a horse that listened too much; given the amount of attention the horse was paying to whoever was recording this video.

thanks for sharing this is great! Nice to see someone who takes extra time to look and listen, in doing so found out there's more than meets the eye initially I was so pleased to see you had made such a difference in the wonderful animals life in just a short video's time. God Bless you for taking the time to help these wonderful creatures, (Horse) is my favorite animal.

Glad your able to help that horse.

Trying to understand but the sound is hard to understand with the echo in that barn. This man is like a horse chiropractor ? Amazing.

I am so in love with this video.... I took a well trained young horse to a "Certified Sponsored Trainer" for 30 to 60 days saddle only time while I was recovering from a major surgery.... I went and checked in on my horse as often as possible, but even before the 1st 30 days were up, my son and I could not even find my horse in the stable.... We began to panic until after about the fourth walk through the barn a strange horse lunged his head into the breezeway and tried to bite me.... I was horrified... and upon further investigation... and to my horror found it was my once beautiful young horse.... of which we had had since he was a young 4 month old colt.... after taking him home immediately, allowing him to relax and gain much needed weight with his herd. We began working with him again. This time, under our direct supervision as I was still healing. A healing that after 5 years is still ongoing.... I recently met a chiropractor / horse trainer and asked him to work with him after he made several trips out to adjust this horse and many others.... I heard and took the lashings about how spoiled he was, this that and the other.... I knew he was not spoiled, nor disrespectful but had two issues... Pain and trust.... my horse now 9 yrs old... has beautiful manners.. after a short time I was asked to come get my horse. I sure wish this gentleman could work with mine, he seems to have a full understanding of pain, trust, and manners...... So happy to have seen this....

This is not a training video this is a chiropractic release video. The moves he is making are to identify where the pain is, he has to locate based on the type of movements that trigger. He says clearly enough that the owner sent this horse to MANY trainers and none could fix his issues because it was thought behavioral. He says the owner will tire this horse out for 2 hours to get it to comply finally to saddle etc. That is a clueless owner! This guy has literally just saved this horses life. This horse has been put through the ringer with neck pain, back pain and hip out of joint. Also it has an ulcer and needs different feed and medication. Anyone who actually watched and listened to this entire video could not in any way deduce this was abusive or quackery, unless you are mentally unstable and have too much of an ego to learn something. Thank GOD for compassionate people who are willing to listen and watch the body language of the animal instead of beating it into submission. All the training in the world wouldn’t have fixed what was wrong with this beautiful horse. Well done and yes the audio would be better if it was on a mike on the person and not on the camera. Bless your continued healing of animals.

Is there a follow up video? If not could you give an update?

I've been learning about this for over 35 years. Seen it work on racehorses, endurance horses, cows, sheep and the kids ponies. It's amazing how many idiots laughed at the chiropractic treatments and healing techniques back then that have been practiced in other parts of the world for over 4,000 years. And for the same reasons Herbal Medicine is all but outlawed in America. It's all about learning to recognize the body language.

this man is an equine chiropractor not an effing trainer and he helped this animal and any real horse lover/caregiver can tell he knows exactly what he's doing . so mr crothers thanks for trying to educate people who really care about their horses .

To all the people who think this man is a lousy trainer and that the horse is scared... please read this before complaining: Did you even watch the video and listen to his commentary? He's a chiropractor, not a trainer. Do you expect your doctor to treat you the same as your boss or friend? He's simply showing how to spot pain in a horse rather than chalking it up as bad behavior, finding out where the horse hurts, then addressing the out of place joints by popping them back into alignment. You can sometimes hear the popping if you listen carefully. By the third pop, you can see the horse start to realize it's helping. They still edge away since the popping is still new and intense, but eventually they tolerate it. Then at the end, you can see their smoother gait and more relaxed posture. If you care about horses, then you should be overjoyed to see a medical professional educate everyone that "problem" horses may just be in pain, and showing how fixing those issues can be quick and simple... then resulting in the horse feeling better. :)

I think he was spot on about the horse being in pain that caused him to react the way he did. What he did not address was what are the possible causes: 1)a result of being resistant to training...slips or falls 2) a result of underlying lameness issues that caused him to compensate how he moved and got him sore 3)ill fitting saddle causing altered movements 4) confirmation that does not favor what he is being asked to do 5) conditioning- muscles support and stabilize joints and when he was being lunged excessively the muscles were fatigued to the point he could not stabilize properly which transfers force to a joint causing an insult then the pain cycle starts 6) rider that does not sit or balance well causing horse to alter his movements which causes the pain.

sounds like he might have a bean too. We had a horse boarder who made that same sound when he had a bean.

Is there a follow-up video on this horse's progress? It's amazing how much better he was in just one session.

SO glad this is available now ! One chilly misty day my 'favorite' horse & I went for a ride, but he was not 'right' and he began rearing. We were on slippery pavement (coming off the nice grassy field) and he would not stay down so, to avoid him going over and getting both of us hurt, I slid off....(easy to do bareback) but he kept rearing and was then striking. A few days of trying to figure out what was wrong, and hoping he was 'himself' again, I put the halter on and went to lead him out, but as soon as the bottom of the halter touched his bottom jaw, he winced and jerked a bit....WHOA! O..O = I pulled down his bottom lip and discovered a huge abcess, very close to where the bit rests! It took a few days of phone calls to find a vet who was willing to remove the infected tooth! Most said that it couldn't be done without breaking his jaw!!! (this was 50 years ago when there was little technology) We spent many more fun and exciting years on the trails in these mountains. i like a good challenge, but that was way too much excitement for this horsewoman!!! We all need to be aware of these possibilities !

you could probably learn a lot by watching Klaus Hempfling. A master horse man

Lots of this man's tencnique is okay, ha is taking time, he is trying to ensure the horse does not get hurt by going backwards, the only thin he is doing is clicking the horse away when it is too close to the rope, too close with head into the wall, and it is too soon for the saddle, horse is still terrified of "everything" terrified shows by it pooping constantly, it stomach is frightened. needs more time.... he has possibly hurt himself by going backwards, both at the poll and his back-bone - has someone put the rope "over his wither and inbetween his front legs for the pulling at halter problem? What a nice frightened horse hope they take more time and show him no more pain...I once purchase a throughbred off Tack, could not go near his poss for a year! till he learned to trust. does not happen FAST. questions should these adjustments not go on both sides?

Be kind to that horse!

Difficult to understand what ur saying.

Thank you so very much for making videos like this so people can understand horses are good animals who want to be good. He kept licking his lips from the beginning as if he was saying, "I want to be good but it hurts!" One thing: In parts of your video, the sound was echoing quite a bit, making it difficult to understand what you were saying. I know that's a bit hard to overcome in an echo-y space like a round pen inside a barn. I sure was wanting to hear what you had to say. I've never seen a horse being adjusted before. That was awesome! I hope Michelle and her horse have many good years together.

I like the way you understand and look for the underlying problems and the fact a horse has a greater issue . And not the fact they don't want to cooperate . Very educational . Thank you so much for sharing .

Very interesting... Just wish you had better acoustics in the barn. And, I'd like to see a close-up of the piece of wood that you are using.

Loved watching this, but audio quality is awful.

Such a difference in the horses nervousness. Lovely to see improvement. Pain is life changing.

He's leaning on the rope because you have a web halter on. When ever he jumps back or moves away you take away the pressure...so he's learning that the pressure goes away when he moves away or jumps back. They are motivated by pressure but learn from the correctly timed release of that pressure. You probably already know this, but you're not practicing it. Poor horse.

Tenn Walker :) pretty Hock action

How awesome that this man can make horses feel better. God bless you sir!

I’m sure I’m gonna get feedback from this but I’m going to say anyway. First of all I’ve had to have two spinal cord Surgeries due to the fact that I’m a firefighter/paramedic and destroyed my neck and my lumbar area. Who do you think diagnosed both of them? A chiropractor. When I went to regular doctors they kept saying there was nothing wrong. Fast forward to both MRIs and guess what ?then all of a sudden the doctors were willing to help me. So I guess I’m a little partial to human chiropractors. But I dated a guy that was an excellent chiropractor who only worked with emergency services people so he was very into spine etc. he also was a horse chiropractor. A very well known one.He did race horses, showhorses etc. And I went with him a couple of times and let me tell you after he adjusted them they would actually nuzzle him and love on him. I understand both sides but there are legitimate and very helpful chiropractors out there. For both humans and animals.

It's a beautiful horse.. Many off his painproblems, seems to come from the very popular rollkur training, which put exctreme pressure on these points of the horses body. I am glad the new owner was willing to give this horse a better future, finding his problems and getting them fixed. My mare wasn't a problem horse, but she had been ridden very thight by her previous rider, so she had a lot of tension built up in her body, I did get some off just by riding on long reins and asking her to stretch as much as she could, like when trotting, she could trot as fast as she wanted to, but she wasn't allowed to switch to gallop, and that really helped. But she still had some issues/stiffness/tension, which I later found out was because she had artirithis in her back legs. (didn't remeber the legal term, but where bone grow a bridge and makes her joints less flexible) anyway, I didn't know, the previous owner didn't tell me about it and I had a guy do this, finding her hurting points and fix them, but she didn't always get better, and that was because he didn't know about the condition (since I didn't know and therefore hadn't told him) so what I am trying to say, is: Make sure to have a vet check your horse, take x-rays and stuff, so when you have someone helping you, they are aware and can do things differently. Again beautiful horse.

A horse chiropractor! Impressive!!

Tenderness under the proximal ventral abdomen does not mean ulcer necessarily. Human chiropractors make all kinds of diagnostic mistakes IMO. One was treating the neck of a woman with tingling in the C5 -6 dermatome without checking for a rash. Turns out she had shingles which I diagnosed over the phone.

I have never been much around horses.........just came across this video by chance. [although I don't believe in chance....or luck] I am though, interested deeply in human disfunction [including my own] and while watching this video I was touched for a few reasons. One, I realize now that we [including me] misjudge one another because we have very little understanding of how pain distorts human behavior and so we are master judgers instead of master healers, thus we compound and misunderstand the problems in ourselves and others. Two, there are very few human beings, it seems, who understand a human's pain and disfunction in the way that Ed Crothers understands horse's pain and disfunction. So very few of us human's ever get healed of our own pain and disfunction. Where are the healer's of human's? The last realization I had is that human's and horse's have one thing in common: a good portion of the pain and disfunction that human's and horse's all share comes from abuse from the human Kingdom. Not just men, but from woman as well. Not saying or implying in any way, that the current owner had anything to do with this horse's pain. It's obvious that this horse has had quite a journey, yet it is a beautiful and touching experience to see this horse's journey finally come to a point of connection with Ed's Love , compassion, understanding and Healing. Something deeper is being touched here, in that all of us are on this bus together and if a horse can be healed, or be put on the path of being healed, so can all of the rest of us, no matter how broken and pained we find ourselves now. I watched the movie "The Horse Whisperer a decade ago and it brought tears to my eye's to see the trauma of a horse and a young girl and the Love and compassion of a Human brought together for the healing of their pain and trauma. My eyes moistened again today watching Ed work with this horse in this video a few moments ago. Just want to say Thank's to Ed Crother's for unlocking some of the secret's of Heaven and Healing and for showing me that God Love's all creatures...... great and small.

GOOD JOB Cowboy👍

wow...a horse chiropracter.. awesome! Must share with my chiro friend.

This is amazing !

He's such a beautiful horse and appears to be young, highly intelligent and fit. How is it he is in so much chronic pain?

Very good video, here are my suggestions for this lovely gelding: Include in the daily diet Manuka Honey UMF 30+ for the ulcer 1Tbs daily, as well as yoghurt added to diet. endless supply of hay to feed the hind gut, Homeopathic Rhus Tox 30c for body pains. Session should have been finished off with 'Tellington T Touch' to reset nervous system and stop muscle memory.

Was there a follow-up video to this horses progress?

I wouldn't be surprised if its owner made this horse agitated & angry in the first place !!

Thank you for being a SMART, KIND chiropractor. I think this horse has neck damage & nerve damage. His back legs seem like borderline neuropathy or sciatica? Poor baby, he's so nice when nothing is hurting him. My ex-racehorse had a nerve too close to the skin in girth area. Once out of every 200 saddling up - if the girth was forward/ off by 1/4 inch - he would spasm & go ballistic, stiff front legs, almost falling down, whites of his eyes, etc. I had to quickly reach in to immediately loosen the girth & then everything would return to normal. I do wonder how many times he was beaten for his spasm at the race track??

There is no such thing as a "Problem horse" just problem people.

a remote mike would be good

You keep touching him in very painful places and then you tell the horse to calm down and it’s okay. But you keep doing it over and over and over and over. So how is he supposed to trust you. He is being vocal and jumping up. What does he have to do? Jump and land on someone. You should have called a horse chiropractor. Yes, their are horse chiropractors. Also an acupuncturist.

Makes ya wonder how many problem horses may just be in pain and no one noticed!!

Ed Crothers Is this horse a Tennessee Walker? I ask because I've known several dark bay Walkers like this horse that went through "big lick" show "training" that's typically abusive both physically and psychologically. I think they come from the same small group of so called trainers and from similar blood lines. The horses not only have anxiety but seem to have full on panic attacks. They seem well trained but it's out of fear not trust and mutual communication. Just a hunch I've picked up on in the last few decades with a certain line of horses from the same general area. I think this group of horses suffer mentally as well as physically from being beaten with 2x4s and doing exagerated gates under saddle, like the "big lick". In my experience they benefit greatly from letting them heal mentally by helping them relax, trust, taking some demand and pressure off and just letting them be horses for a bit while you're helping them relax and trust and healing them physically. You do good work by thinking outside of the box and trying to understand horses better. Peace

People don't realize when our skeleton gets out of alignment pressure is put on nerves. Get alignment corrected off nerves and muscles and much relief from pain. So glad this man is doing this work for horses. Horse chiropractor. Awesome.

The audio is very poor and there are no captions. I'd sure like to know what your're saying.

Wow, that’s the most amazing thing I have ever seen! This man is incredible with his knowledge of horses and techniques to help it. Just amazing.

I loved seeing him lick his lips after adjusting. He knew you were helping him.

I liked watching you work with this horse. It was interesting and informative. I want to see the two of you in a few more get togethers and when you are riding him.

Love this. Incredible to see how in-tune you are to horses, and understanding their pain. Fantastic!

I wish you could fix me of all my pain issues.