equine soft tissue repair

Ian Thirkell is the man behind ArcEquine. He makes no claim to be medically or scientifically trained or qualified in any way – he has no expertise in those areas but yet he has been at the heart of an astonishing development in the treatment of soft tissue repair.

His involvement with the establishment of ArcEquine began a few years after he retired from the Metropolitan Police at the rank of Inspector in 1997 after 30 years’ service.

In early 2001 his wife Lucy, then a university student introduced him to the subject of microcurrent technology. She was in her final year of a Radiography degree course and one of her senior lecturer’s recommended her as a suitable PhD student and suggested this technology as a possible research subject.

Ian’s initial reaction to the far-reaching claims of microcurrent treatment was one of total scepticism. His time in the police had made him more cynical than most. But, equally his wide-ranging service had given him the experience to thoroughly examine all the evidence before jumping to conclusions.

He kept an open mind, researched widely and then met the lecturer. Having seen some of the results achieved he offered to help – unpaid – to introduce the unit to the elite sports arena. Those introductions included Premiership football clubs Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham along with top-flight rugby union clubs Leicester Tigers, London Wasps and the England international side.

In 2002, Ian helped to set up a company to research the transfer of the technology to the equine world. Horses have a similar physiology to humans and Ian was convinced it would work well on a four-legged mammalian patient as effectively as on a two-legged one.

During this period a total of 16 racehorses were treated – all of them ‘worst-case scenarios’. Analysis showed that the average time from start of treatment to first post-injury race was around 29 weeks. Under conventional veterinary practice  those horses would have been box-rested for a minimum of 12 months before they were considered ready for any race training.

Ian’s findings showed that no horse treated with microcurrent technology subsequently broke down with a repetition of the same injury. In fact, two of those horses have successfully completed 43 and 44 races respectively in the three years following treatment. Link here to case studies.

These excellent results were also mirrored by the findings of Roger Knibbs, the physio at Wasps in his treatment of rugby players. Ian lent Roger eight units for a three-week trial and the physio was so impressed he convinced the club to buy 30 of them when the trial ended.
Ian believes the technology is so simple and user friendly that he would like it to be made available to all, at an affordable price, such that the animal could be treated at home in a familiar and comfortable environment.

But Ian’s experience with elite sports people convinced him that the technology had a wider application. He is now involved in research into areas which include nerve regeneration, pain elimination, neuro-electrical/chemical imbalances and others.

Since he discovered this new world of cutting-edge medicine in 2002 he has been driven to explore the boundaries of this technology with a view to gathering sufficient evidence to convince clinicians to take a proper look. The first such clinical trial, in four major areas of ophthalmology and involving a total of 800 patients will start this autumn.

He is currently in discussions with consultants who specialise in pain and auto-immune malfunctions, specifically hay fever, asthma, eczema and psoriasis.

Ian’s ultimate ambition is to champion the use of microcurrent technology throughout the world to human and animal patients to alleviate suffering and promote good health. He is a businessman, of course, but he’s a businessman with a vision.
[link here to Vision page]

Since 2001 we have conducted research, both theoretical and applied, into the potential beneficial effects of Micro-Current Technology, both in horses ( and other animals) and in man.

We are now in a position to make some of our findings and results public.

We are determined to help others by making the technology available to all, in small, user friendly and affordable units under the “ arc “ family banner.

The first such “system” is ArcEquine, and in this we are supported by a number of National Hunt and Flat Trainers, Elite Riders from all Olympic disciplines – many of whom we now sponsor – together with Veterinarians and others from the Equine World and Establishment.

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