Dr Nicole Rombach

Nicole attained the ITEC human massage qualification (United Kingdom) in 1997, the Equinology Equine Body Worker® certification in 1998 and the Equinology Master Equine Body Worker® certification (USA) in 1999 and has since taken most of the courses in the Equinology Specialised certification series. She completed the Postgraduate Diploma and MSc programmes in Animal Manipulation with the McTimoney College of Chiropractic and University of Wales. From 2003 to 2009 she was based in São Paulo, Brazil where she worked in direct liaison with various veterinary clinics, focusing on complementary therapies for sports performance horses to Olympic level. She travelled to national competition centres and private clients throughout Brazil and in other South American countries. In 2013 she completed her PhD through the Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center, College of Veterinary Medicine / Large Animal Clinical Sciences of Michigan State University. The focus of her doctoral research programme was on investigation into equine neck pain from the aspects of neuromotor control, osseous pathology, clinical objective assessment and pain-related equine behaviour. Interests: Nicole’s research centres around further development of non-invasive therapeutic interventions for equine spinal dysfunction, in particular from the aspect of neuromotor control.