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The Examiner 4/12/12

Horse healer reins in pain
BY ISABEL BIRD
15 Apr, 2012 04:00 AM
HUMAN headaches can be cured with a pill.

When a horse gets a headache its owner can turn their hands to the healing powers of osteopathy.

Equine osteopath Stephen Schwartz, of Israel, was in the North-West hamlet of Sprent this weekend to share his 40 years of experience in human and horse osteopathy............

Click here to view the entire Examiner article and a video clip of Dr. Schwartz in action!

The Sanctuary Hosts Equine Osteopathy Two-Day Workshop With Dr. Stephen Schwartz

By JRPR, Tuesday, 06 July 2010, from Horses Daily

Ocala, FL – The Sanctuary Equine Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation Center recently hosted a two-day workshop with Dr. Stephen Schwartz, D. O., a specialist in Equine Osteopathy. A lecturer of Animal Osteopathy at Wingate Institute in Israel, Schwartz has practiced in London, New Zealand, Australia and now in Israel, where he has been living since 2000.

“It was a fantastic workshop and everyone really learned a great deal from Dr. Schwartz,” said Brenda McDuffee, General Manager of The Sanctuary. “As an Equine Osteopath, Dr. Schwartz is trained to recognize and treat many causes of pain in horses. His treatments include stretching techniques, rhythmic passive joint movements, mobilization to improve joint mobility and high velocity thrust techniques. Schwartz explained that ‘Equine Osteopathy is a gentle non-aggressive therapy. Is it about technique, rhythm and grace of movement. A relaxed rider results in the horse being relaxed, as well’.”

WorkCover Tasmania

The Advocate, Thursday September 22, 2011

Osteopathy course to target trouble spots

LEARN how to iron out the kinks in your horse next month. A world-renowned equine osteopath is headed to the North-West Coast in October for a two-day workshop. Equine osteopathy is a whole-body system of manual therapy used to treat musculoskeletal problems and other disorders in horses.

Among the Lovely Bones

By Carl Hoffman, 05/03/2010, from The Jerusalem Post

Dr. Stephen Schwartz is Israel’s only equine osteopath.

Israel is a writer’s paradise. One can write about virtually anything here – history, geography, politics, religion, science, technology or anything one can imagine – and never exhaust the subject. It is this country’s people, however, that insure a never-ending supply of material. Behind every face is a story and, more often than not, a good one.

At first glance, one might not expect a particularly unusual story behind the face of Stephen Schwartz, 61. Slender, soft-spoken and speaking English with an accent that suggests London with faint traces of later residence in New Zealand and Australia, Schwartz easily blends into the general atmosphere of pleasant, suburban, “Anglo-Saxon” Ra’anana. Married, with three grown children and four grandchildren, Schwartz is a doctor of osteopathy, with a flourishing practice catering largely to an English-speaking clientele.