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familiar with preventing stress levels and heart rate to increase. This constant environment allows a control for research purposes but also allows replication. 3.5 Procedure Horses were prepared for the light therapy sessions prior to making their way over to the therapy barn this included taking off the horse’s rugs. Rugs could affect the surface temperature of the horse. Taking the rugs off the horses ten minutes before the beginning of the light therapy session ensured the horses would return to normal surface temperature. This would ensure that the surface temperature is not being compromised or influenced by heat trapped by the rug. During this ten minute period of waiting the horses had their hooves picked out and all stable arrangements were made. After the waiting time had ended, Horses were led to the therapy barn and once in there connected to the POLAR RS800Cx heart rate monitor. The set up of which consisted of the heart rate monitor and a roller to secure the monitor in place throughout the session. A wet sponge was used on the horse to dampen the right hand side girth area to make obtaining the results easier. Once the horses were ready to begin the session the video camera was turned on and a timer was started to ensure the data collection timings were correct to begin the session. After four minutes the heart rate was recorded via the accompanying watch with the monitor. The light therapy commenced at this moment and at every two-minute interval the heart rate of the horse was recorded on a table and a thermal image taken on the FLIR C3. The light therapy session consisted of a ten-minute period using the Photizo on various points around the right side of the horse’s body. These included: atlas, middle of neck, wither, middle of back, sacrum, point of buttock, middle of thigh, middle of ribs, middle of shoulder, and pectorals. The device is on the body for a period of a pre-set dosage of 31 seconds and was operated by a fully qualified 17PDF Image | THE EFFECT OF LIGHT THERAPY ON HEART RATE, HORSES
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