Laurie's Blogs.
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Feb 2024
Feb 2024
Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon…
Do you have clients with canine athletes? Or perhaps clients who are athletes themselves? Have you come across the client that pushes their dog a little bit too much, too fast, too soon?Chances are, you’ve met one or two of these. Here’s the scenario....
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Feb 2024
Feb 2024
An Interesting Study About Fibrotic Myopathy
A recent study was published on Fibrotic Myopathy. This of course is a condition where by a caudal thigh muscle develops fibrosis. It tends to occur in semitendinosis muscle or the gracilis muscle. Etiology is not fully understood. Here’s the study:Wi...
04
Feb 2024
Feb 2024
Hypermobility and the correlation with behavioural traits such as anxiety!
Here’s a study that blew my mind! Bowen J, Fatjó J, Serpell JA, Bulbena-Cabré A, Leighton E, Bulbena A. First evidence for an association between joint hypermobility and excitability in a non-human species, the domestic dog. Sci Rep. 201...
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Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Fascinating Tales of Neck Mobilization Research Successes
Let’s talk about neck mobilizations for a wee while. There are so few canine studies in this area… okay, I looked, there are precisely zero!!! So, why not look at two legged guinea pig studies (i.e. those conducted on human patients) to guide us and...
20
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Hung up on evidence-based physiotherapy practice
I was perusing a physio forum where a physiotherapy student was asking about evidence based physiotherapy practice. He was disappointed that on some of the student internships he had been on, that is preceptors were not practicing evidence based medicine. They were us...
13
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Neck Pain, Eye Pain, and Manual Therapy to the Rescue
Terrible picture of Laurie, no makeup, bad hair, comfy clothes....looks like a bag lady... doing C1 assess and treat.It has been really stupidly cold here this past weekend. Overnight lows down below -40 C/F. Oh man, it is draining – even being inside! [Th...
06
Jan 2024
Jan 2024
Land Treadmill or Water Treadmill for the Neurologic Dog?
The following blog highlights a journal article that as intended to provide scientific evidence for one purpose, but inadvertently helps we canine rehab clinicians for a different purpose! I quite like to find little unintended nuggets of wisdom tucked into research a...
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Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Conservative Management of IVDH and Disc Resorption or Regression
From Khan S, et al. JSAP. 2022 Oct;63(10):797. So my last blog received a comment that I think would be good to explore in this blog. (https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=650). The comment pertained to the following sentence in my last blog. &ldq...
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Dec 2023
Dec 2023
Lumbar Disc Herniations – Mobilize or Manipulate?
A new randomized clinical trial came across my desk - Effects of spinal manipulation or mobilization as an adjunct to neurodynamic mobilization for lumbar disc herniation with radiculopathy: a randomized clinical trial (1). I read it with interest as there alway...
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Dec 2023
Dec 2023
How to Talk So People Will Listen
Following up on the last two blogs… here we have HOW to Talk to People! In a world filled with noise and constant chatter, the art of effective communication is more crucial than ever. The ability to be heard and understood is a skill that can open doors, foster conne...
