Laurie's Blogs.
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Jul 2023
Jul 2023
Mice, Tendinopathy, and Which Kind of Exercise is Best?
I read a very interesting paper recently: Fast, non-eccentrically loaded exercise worsens tendinopathic healing responses in a murine modelOkay, so the whole title gives away the final summation, but bear with me, as it’s interesting never the less! The Gis...
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Jul 2023
Jul 2023
Therapies Directed Towards the Disc
A Facebook comment came about from a previous blog post – http://fourleg.com/Blog?b=625 It made mention of x-rays not specifically showing the disc itself, about the difference between chondrodystrophic and non-chondrodystrophic disc degeneration, and specif...
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Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Fatty Muscles
I remember back in the day when it was said, “you can’t turn fat into muscle”. You had to lose fat and gain muscle. The two were different substances. While that’s still true, it doesn’t account for the infiltration of f...
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Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Chondrodysplasia, Chondrodystrophy, and Genetic Testing
Without getting into any patient details, let’s just say that this blog is based off of a case that presented to my clinic. The dog has had surgery for a Hansen’s type 1 disc and the owner has learned about the genetic test for chondrodysplasia and is quit...
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Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Alzheimer's Disease: and the Beta-Amyloid Plaque Theory - Update
Sometimes, I just pick a blog topic that I think I want to learn more about. This time, I was curious about Alzheimer’s and the Beta-Amyloid Plaque Theory. I had heard that it had been debunked or challenged, but I hadn’t dove into the research to understa...
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Jun 2023
Jun 2023
Loss of Lumbar Disc Height with Age and its Impact on Pain
Interesting title don’t you think? I thought so. I was scrolling through the contents of a journal article and found this little nugget. At first I thought, “yah, but it’s a human journal, it won’t really be applicable to a qu...