Common Problems Treated with Equine Therapy
Doug (Dougie) Hannum
Home: Nottingham, PA
Title: Senior Equine Therapist
Doug Hannum is an exceptional horseman with over 30 years experience. Hannum started with horses as a professional groom; soon he began training Jumpers for the late Mrs. Hewitt on the A Hunter Jumper circuit. Hannum and Hewitt saw the need for a drug free method of caring for their performance horses. Equine therapy became a natural evolution for his talents. Hannum has a natural gift for gently touching the horses legs and body to find abnormalities, and discomfort and a trainers eye for soundness. With Mrs. Hewitts help, the Equine Therapy and Rehabilitation Center was born 10 years ago. Now Hannum travels the world with the United States Equestrian Team (USET) working with Olympic athletes as part of the team that keeps these horses showing. When Hannum is not traveling he is Senior Equine Therapist at The Nottingham Equine Therapy Center.*
Therapy is such a big part of healing and no one knows and believes in this more than Doug Hannum. In the late 1960s Doug worked with the USET as a groom traveling to the Olympics, and the Pan Am Games, then in the late 1970s and early 1980s Doug showed many young horses such as; Masquerade, Kennebec County, Nebraska Winter, Skating Party, Dream In Gold and many of the Royal family of horses in the Confirmation Hunter Breeding Circuits on the East Coast. Some of these horses were AHSA Grand Champions. Doug also owned and operated a show stable named High Times Stables where he trained students in Hunter Jumper and Equitation throughout the East Coast A Rated Circuit.
Hannums preventative therapy program is used on all disciplines, from the trail horse to competition jumpers to western reining horses.
1988 - Doug returned to the USET as the Equine Therapist for the Eventing Team in Seoul Korea
1992 - Doug and his partner Bill Godbold turned their attention to the renovation of a newly purchased facility in Nottingham, PA where they seriously began to concentrate on the Equine Therapy industry, and in 1994 Doug worked at the World Equestrian Games in Hague Holland as the Silver Medal US Eventing team therapist.
1995 - Buenos Aires Argentina as the Equine Therapist where the team won the Gold Medal
1996 Performed therapies for the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal Eventing and Dressage team; the Olympic Games in Atlanta Georgia
1998 - Doug traveled to the World Equestrian Games in Rome where the 3 day team earned a bronze medal while using Dougs amazing talent with laser, magnetic and electrical stimulation therapies.
1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg as the Equine Therapist where the team won the Gold Medal
2000 Sydney Australia Olympics Gold Medal teams Equine Therapist
2002 - World Equestrian Games in Jerez, Spain, Doug treated all of the teams before and after competition with his equine therapy programs and brought the 3 Day Team to a Gold Medal.
* The Nottingham Equine Therapy Center.* .is a full service facility which is the only facility that offers a full-circle therapy program. These programs include laser and pulsating magnetic therapy, hydrotherapy in Dougs own design the Hannum Hydraciser TM, electrical stimulation, as well as training and riding of horses in the program. Other therapies performed by the Centers affiliates include chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, myofascial release, horseshoeing, and dental.
Symptoms that can be treated with N.E.T.s All Natural Equine Therapy
Sore back Head shy
Flinching, tail swinging Problems with leads
Stiffness
Carrying tail to one side
Reduced performance
Unleveled, shortness or uneven steps
Reluctant to jump
Behavioral bucking, rearing, refusing
Unwillingness to stand still
