About Fran Tirado

BVSc, MRCVS, Cert ACUP (IVAS), Cert CHIRO (IAVC)

Qualifications

Fran Tirado graduated from Cordoba University Veterinary School (Spain) in 2002.

He completed an equine internship in Spain before moving to Ireland to gain more experience. He finished another internship in a referral equine hospital in Co. Kildare (Ireland) where he continued working as an assistant for a few years.

He has worked as a Senior assistant in an Equine veterinary practice in Surrey for more than 10 years where he started practicing Veterinary Chiropractic and Acupuncture.

He trained in Acupuncture through the ABVA (Association of British Veterinary Acupuncture) Foundation course and also the IVAS (International Veterinary Acupuncture Society) Certification course.

Fran also trained as a Veterinary Chiropractor with the IAVC (International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic).

Mission

Fran knew he wanted to be a vet since the age of 8 and his vocation for improving horses health has always driven him one step further. My mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of horses, with a holistic approach, looking at the whole horse and not just an isolated injury and trying to prevent these injuries before they appear using Chiropractic and Acupuncture.

Vision

Horses, as domestic animals, are our responsability and my vision is to see Acupuncture and Chiropractic becoming one more pillar in their health care. As nowdays, horse owners accept farriery, dentistry and saddle fitting as routine necessary work inherent to owning a horse, I believe chiropractic will become part of the standard caring of a horse in the next few years, allowing horses to be treated at least 4 times a year as maintenance/preventative treatment.

Values

Integrity, honesty and trust are the key elements in the relationship between Horse-Owner-Chiropractor/Acupuncturist.