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Hi Laurie, I was hoping to ask you a quick question about a case.  I went to CRI and I am a member of your online group.  I read your blog notes on the condition and they were very helpful, I was just hoping for a little clarification. It is a 4 year old F/S b...

Hey Laurie I have a question for you, which may also be a good blog question for your page? What do you do in the situation where you are being asked to help someone with their dog and you don't feel they are being realistic?  Here is my current quandary. I have been as...

ARTICLE REVIEW - Taken from the most recent edition of FourLeg News (Vol 3, Issue 5)Siniscalchi M, Bertino D, Quaranta A.  Laterality and performance of agility-trained dogs, Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition.   (2013): DOI: 10.1080/1357650X...

Hi LaurieI'm hearing more and more dogs being diagnosed with bilateral iliopsoas strain.   My feeling is that this is rare and that these dogs are being found to have sore hip flexors because of some other issue causing overuse or misuse and being misdiagnosed.  Wh...

Guest Blog - By Sharon SeltzerA couple of weeks ago, Sharon contacted me for an interview for her blog - http://lessonsfromaparalyzeddog.com - she wanted to know what advice I could give to her readers, people wanting to help their paralyzed dogs.  She asked if I could ...

So today (as I write this, Sunday) my hubby and I tried something new.  I was pretty nervous about it.  We had never done this before, and I was most worried that it would go terribly wrong… and the spectators would snicker. We took my 3 year old Borzoi to a...

That headline only makes sense to people who lived through the 80s & 90s and can sing along with most Tina Turner songs of that era!Laurie – I have a patient with bilateral hyperextending tarsal joints. I thought I could order
 Therapaw tarsal supports to limit his hy...

Hi Laurie,I have a difficult case!!For 1 month I've been treating an 8 yr old german shepherd after a surgery for multiple disc protrusions: T13-L1 , L2-L3, L4-L5. Before surgery, he had reduced propioception on his left rear leg. After surgery he was paraplegic with deep pa...

So this blog is just story-telling about what's going on in my clinic these days. It's been busy at the clinic… the physios are hopping for the most part.  We have a new PT on staff and her case load is slowly and surely increasing!  However she's off f...

Laurie, A staff member at work has a dog that has gracilis myopathy.  I have been looking through my notes from class, and my books, and have not been able to find anything definitive for treatment other than to say that rehab works the best.  I have seen recommend...