650 nm
Surface
Skin, shallow tissue, and the aiming beam. Useful on a wound edge or a spot you need to see exactly. It does not reach a suspensory.
Kemp Equine
90-watt Class 4 laser for horses.
The same KDT Neural Flex I use on people — 650, 810, 980, and 1064 nm — on the structures a horse actually loads.
A horse is not a bigger person. The target is deeper, the coat gets in the way, and a 10-watt barn laser often never arrives. This unit is 30 watts each at 810, 980, and 1064 — 90 watts peak, 60 watts continuous — plus 650 nm red light. Sessions are short. The horse feels warmth, not a shock.
I use it with the adjustment, not instead of it. Motion first. Light on the tissue that has been compensating.
The wavelengths
Four lights. The 1064 is why it works on a horse.
810 nm
Muscle
The wavelength for tissue with a blood supply. Back muscle, shoulder, glute — the soreness that shows up after work and after the spine starts moving again.
980 nm
Pain
Absorbed more by water. Strong on pain in denser tissue. The one I use when the horse is guarding a joint or a tendon and will not let you near it.
1064 nm · the extra on a horse
Deep
The one that matters on a horse. Coat, pigment, and muscle mass eat the shorter wavelengths. 1064 scatters less, so it reaches a suspensory, a deep glute, or a joint under a lot of tissue. Most barn lasers still stop at 810 and 980.
Where I use it
Common places on a horse.
Tendons and ligaments
Superficial digital flexor, deep digital flexor, and the suspensory. The structures that take the load. Laser does not replace rest or a veterinary plan. It is for the tissue once we know what we are treating.
Back and topline
Sore epaxial muscle along the spine, after the adjustment. A back that will not lift usually has both a joint that is not moving and muscle that has been doing the job for it.
Hock, stifle, fetlock
Soft-tissue soreness around the joints that do the work — not a diagnosis of the joint itself. If the horse is lame, the veterinarian leads. I treat what is sore around it.
Neck, shoulder, hindquarter
Tight muscle that changes the stride: poll and neck after a headset fight, shoulder after a trailer haul, hamstring and glute on a horse that is not tracking up.
This is not a lameness workup and it is not a promise to fix a tendon. If the horse is off, your veterinarian should see it. Laser is for the tissue we already understand — alongside hands-on chiropractic.
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