Not many interviews with horse trainers come with a free back realignment.
But I walked away from Geoff Dunn's West Melton stables on Sunday feeling a lot better.
Dunn has been practising ''dowsing'' for the past five years or so after he watched Bill Northern, an American who could best be described as a master dowser, quickly establish what was wrong with a bunch of horses just up the road from Dunn's West Melton stables.
''He said things that were unbelievable about these horses that he couldn't have possibly known,'' Dunn said.
''He was going over them and saying this and that.''
Dowsing is a way of communicating with horses - or any living thing - to discover what is wrong with them.
Dunn uses a small weight on a piece of string as his pendulum. If the pendulum starts spinning in circles, there is something not quite right with the joint - in my case, a couple of vertebrae in my back.
''I'll fix your back in a minute,'' he said.
Sure enough, Dunn uses a couple of chiropractic manoeuvres and I drive away from West Melton feeling a lot more comfortable in the driver's seat of my rental car.
Dunn had been performing chiropractic work on horses for many years prior to taking up dowsing, and the results speak for themselves.
Stable stars Tiger Tara and Venus Serena have largely avoided any major joint problems.
''Horses can put themselves out just like that in the blink of an eye,'' Dunn said.
''We've taken that out of play. We've been able to keep the horses healthy. Our vet bills have gone down to here. I can detect sore joints and feet no problem at all.''
