Advanced, drug-free recovery for performance horses. Precise thermal therapy combined with pure marine minerals to manage inflammation and accelerate soft-tissue healing—delivered at our dedicated on-site cross-tie recovery station.
Cold saltwater hydrotherapy has been used on competitive horses for over a century. The principle is simple. Cold reduces inflammation. Salt draws fluid from soft tissue. Time does the rest.
Salt & Stride brings this foundational treatment directly to top-tier events and barns along the I-5 corridor. No trailering a sore horse to a rehab facility mid-season. No waiting through a recovery week between competitions. Just better recovery, on-site, right down the row from your stalls.
Cold saltwater hydrotherapy has been the subject of peer-reviewed veterinary research since the 1990s. The foundational study followed twenty-seven horses with various lower leg injuries (superficial digital flexor tendon damage, suspensory ligament injury, traumatic contusions) treated with hypertonic cold water spa hydrotherapy.
Of the horses placed back into training, the majority returned to competition within six months without re-injury. Today, cold saltwater spa therapy is documented as a primary rehabilitation modality across international equine veterinary practice.
A comprehensive 20-minute treatment. Full-leg immersion in aerated, dynamic cold saltwater right at our dedicated on-site cross-ties. Quiet, drug-free care between rounds.
Saves $10 per session. Paid upfront with a 12-month validity period. Completely transferable between horses inside the same barn workspace across the season.
Our maximum value tier at $65 per run. Designed specifically for training barns, syndicates, or individual athletes campaigning multiple performance horses across the PNW track.
Schedule confirmed as bookings are finalized. Barn visits available between shows along the I-5 corridor and the Willamette Valley.
Salt & Stride is owned and operated by Megan Glowka, an eventer based in Canby, Oregon, riding with Jennifer Wooten-Macouzet at Trinity Eventing. The business started where most good barn ideas start: at the end of a long cross-country day, with a tired horse, no rehabilitation facility nearby, and a pile of ice melting in a muck tub by the trailer.
The therapy itself is the same trusted method used by professional yards for a century. What's different is the accessibility. Instead of shipping a horse to a clinic, Salt & Stride brings a dedicated recovery station right to the competition. Twenty minutes, fifty dollars, and your horse is back to its stall feeling its best.
The goal is simple: keep performance horses sound through long, demanding seasons by making professional recovery tools fully accessible at the back gate.
— Megan
For trainers with multiple horses, show-week packages, or pre-trip and post-trip barn visits along the I-5 corridor, a phone call usually gets it done fastest.
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