About Jennifer Brooks, PT, MEd, CERP

In the year 2000 Jennifer Brooks, P.T., decided to combine her love of horses with her professional skills as a Physical Therapist.  She began studying equine anatomy, kinesiology (the study of movement) and equine pathologies. Much of her continuing educational pursuits in equine PT have involved understanding the benefits of modalities such as therapeutic ultrasound, heat and cold, low level light LASER, electrical stimulation along with manual therapeutic interventions, that are commonly used on humans in clinical settings, with thoughts of “How can I utilize these proven methods that help humans, to help heal horses?”

Jennifer started her professional career as a licensed Physical Therapist (PT) graduating with a B.S. in PT from Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, in 1985. She went on to receive her M.Ed from Rivier College, Nashua, NH in 1995. She has taught at two are colleges in the Master’s PT Programs  at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and at Notre Dame College, Manchester, NH. She most recently taught at the NH Technical Community College teaching Practical Equine Anatomy and Physiology with in their Equine Body Work Program in Fall of 2007.

Jennifer has spent the last 8 year focused on studies in equine rehabilitation. Please click on to her CV link for a full outline of the course work she has pursued. She attended the Equine Rehabilitation Institute in Loxahatchee, Fl and received her Equine Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification through the collaboration of Northeast Seminars and the University of Tennessee Veterinary College in 2006. She has gained knowledge of therapeutic intervention specific for equine pathologies from a variety of equine professionals such as Narelle Stubbs, PH.D in Equine Physiotherapy, Physiotherapist for the Australian Olympic Equestrian Team, Dr. Wayne McIlwraith, Dip. Vet Un of Colorado, and Dr. Steve Adair at the Un. of Tennessee. She continues to grow her equine and human knowledge base with continuing education in both disciplines.

Jennifer has been a horse lover all of her life. She started hunt seat lesson at 11yrs old. She got her first horse at age 13, a dapple gray Anglo Arab mare of which she evented and showed in the central NY area while growing up. She has owned a variety horses: a Warmblood-Cross, a Canadian Thoroughbred, a National Show horse, and most recently gained a Thoroughbred gelding at her farm Brookline, NH.  She rides mostly for pleasure and trail riding, but dallies in dressage for training purposes. She continues to take riding instruction to further excel her passion while regularly enjoying cross-country gallops in the trials of Southern NH.

She currently maintains a gentleman’s farm with her husband and children in Brookline NH where she keeps her two horses and boards others.  Jennifer was recently featured in Today in Physical Therapy  Dec. ’07 a monthly periodical in an article on Animal PT. She has also recently published an article on Intermittent Upward Fixation of the Patella of the Horse: Literature review and Case Study in Orthopedic PT Practice Journal.  Her hobbies, besides horses, include exercising outdoors with friends, gardening, family time, reading, writing and equine research.

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