Our hands can do amazing things. They allow us to communicate whether it be through writing or closing our fingers on the reins. Hands can also be used to heal. For over 5,000 years, massage therapy has been used to treat all sorts of human ailments. In many elite athletes, massage is not only a beneficial, but a crucial exercise in their training regiment. That being said, if massage can be so beneficial to humans, image what it could do for horses who not only are in rigorous daily training, but do so while carrying a person on their back.