About Results 4 Horses

Results 4 Horses was founded in 2009 by Personal Trainer/ Sports Medicine Massage Therapist, Kym Jennings and TAE Cathy Vellacott. We became interested in using massage on animals, and specifically horses, as a result of the outstanding benefits that we witnessed over the years.

We witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of the therapy on our own horses; we decided to market our equine muscle therapy service in the local area with race horse trainers, eventing riders, dressage competitors, competition polo, endurance and western pleasure along with Rodeo competitors with calf roping and barrel racing. The results were amazing. Horses that had not finished in the money in over a year were winning, and horses that had been given up on were back working and racing competitively. The results were the same…horses were performing better than they had in years, and muscle injuries were healing faster, just like humans when top coaches use sports medicine techniques to recover and heal quicker than anyone else, it does work. So now everyone trainers, owners and riders were all interested in learning this wonderful “new” therapy.

Kym Jennings

Kym Jennings has worked and taught in the fitness/sports medicine industry for over 27 years. She has specialised in brain disorders and the aging population. She was also commissioned by the Government of Japan to write an in-depth training package for their aging population in 2004.Kym has always had a passion for dog training where she became an accredited “Dog Obedience Training Instructor at the young age of 18.  She also has dedicated her life to studying and training in the special field of natural horsemanship. Kym incorporated the use of Niagara physiotherapy units into her animal’s daily routine, as she found great improvements in their overall movement.  Kym also is a fully accredited Dive Master, and owned and operated a Dive School in Cairns for over 10 years training students to dive with safety and confidence. She is also a Trainers Trainer for cert III & IV in fitness where she worked for an international college; Kym specialized in teaching Anatomy and physiology.  Kym also taught Massage and the specialized use of Niagara physiotherapy equipment.  Kym now dedicates her time to teaching the SAFE practice of animal massage with the use of Niagara physiotherapy ( Equissage) equipment for animals.

How Kym Jennings came to use Niagara physiotherapy products

My parents purchased a Niagara massage chair and hand held physiotherapy massage unit in the early 80’s. I would put our dogs in the chair and go over them with the hand held unit, which they liked. I noticed a difference in one of our dogs, who had arthritis, and it seemed to improve her joint movement and she seemed to be free of pain, which I thought was good.

I then used the hand held unit on my personal training clients, where I found  huge benefits in range of motion in muscle, improvement in recovery from workouts.  Why ? all this is due to stimulating blood and oxygen to muscles, so it aids in repair to muscles. Once again I could see major changes and improvements so kept using the hand held unit.

Then someone dumped 2 horses on us, which were very nervous so I had the bright idea to use the hand held Niagara unit on them, which improved their nervous disposition, they also appeared to have more free movement in the shoulder and hamstrings so I kept doing this with them, and I was very pleased with their progress all round.

Just goes to show that the product does work  even back then in the 80’s  I have noticed that the hand held unit looks the same back then.

Cathy Vellacott

Cathy has been an educator since 1994 when she completed her first qualification as a Train the Trainer in the 1990’s, she now holds a Certificate IV Training & Assessment TAE40110.  Cathy has knowledge in the manufacturing, legal and IT industries. During her working life Cathy had her own successful consulting and specialised software training business for many years until deciding to use all her skills to educate others under the banner of an international college which she was the founder and facilitator for a country based campus in Queensland. 

“I balance my life with family, work and volunteering.  Along with all the business skills I possess I have used them to assist a community radio station in the capacity as a secretary and a Saturday breakfast radio presenter for 5 years.  At which time I was heavily involved with the governance of the station and many and varied major fundraising events.  I have also held positions as a high school President and Vice-President for 4 years at my childrens local high school and I am a member of Toastmasters International.”

Cathy has since joined with Kym to use her skills and to assist in growing the business Cath and Kym who have combined their specialized talents to develop the best training package available in equine therapy.  We choose to use and operate Niagara Equissage physiotherapy equipment.