NBCAAM Contraindications – Animal Acupressure and Massage Safety Guidelines for
Certification Exam
Systemic Fever = No sessions on a horse with a fever. - ✔✔
Systemic Infection = No sessions on a horse with an Infection. - ✔✔
Certain Advanced Caners: Mast cell tumors lead to histamine reaction, histamine reaction leads
to shock. (such as bone cancer). - ✔✔
Contagious skin conditions = No session. (Ringworm) - ✔✔
Congestive Heart Failure - ✔✔
Surgical Sites = wait 2 months after the scab falls off - ✔✔
Suspicious Undiagnosed Masses = Don't work on it, work around it. (Vet approval). - ✔✔
Basal Membrane Degeneration = No session
(Rare rapid onset)
(The body attack's structural tissue). - ✔✔
Horses in shock
(call the Vet) - ✔✔
Horses with torn muscles, Tendons, or ligaments.
(You don't want to stretch or lengthen what's torn)
Certification Exam
Systemic Fever = No sessions on a horse with a fever. - ✔✔
Systemic Infection = No sessions on a horse with an Infection. - ✔✔
Certain Advanced Caners: Mast cell tumors lead to histamine reaction, histamine reaction leads
to shock. (such as bone cancer). - ✔✔
Contagious skin conditions = No session. (Ringworm) - ✔✔
Congestive Heart Failure - ✔✔
Surgical Sites = wait 2 months after the scab falls off - ✔✔
Suspicious Undiagnosed Masses = Don't work on it, work around it. (Vet approval). - ✔✔
Basal Membrane Degeneration = No session
(Rare rapid onset)
(The body attack's structural tissue). - ✔✔
Horses in shock
(call the Vet) - ✔✔
Horses with torn muscles, Tendons, or ligaments.
(You don't want to stretch or lengthen what's torn)
