Laurie's Blogs.
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Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Non-Adherence to Follow-Up
A recent journal article revealed that adherence to follow-up recommendations was 65.8% for dogs and cats undergoing orthopedic surgery. What was meant by adherence? “Cases were considered nonadherent if owners did not return for recommended follow-up visi...
02
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Massage, Touch, Pain, & Quality of Life
Today I was pontificating about whether there were any studies that looked at simple touch as a healing tool in companion animals. Placebo can account for up to 30% of any positive benefits seen in an interventional study. We believe this to be due to the influe...
26
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Novel MPL Repositioning Technique
ABSTRACTBackground and Purpose: medial patellar luxation (MPL) is a common condition managed with surgery, medication, and observation. There is a lack of literature regarding specific conservative MPL intervention. Conservative treatment is important for milder non-s...
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Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Scratching the surface
I was conversing with a physical therapist about a case. This person obviously knew who I was, sought me out for my opinion and advice. All good. What transpired next sort of shocked me. She commented, I learn so much from your blogs. Great. I ...
12
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
MANUAL THERAPY PROTOCOLS
I’ve been asked for protocols for my manual therapy for decades! I’ve seen questions posted on chat groups asking for ‘how long, how much, where, what techniques’ for mobilization or manual therapies for various musculoskeletal ailments. I&rsqu...
05
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Physical Rehabilitation and the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence
This blog is a review of a recent research article. Let’s start with the conclusion! If you read research papers, you likely read the title, the conclusion, and THEN everything in between. So, here’s the conclusion: “The reducti...
26
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Progressing Exercise Sessions – Part 3 - Measuring Outcomes
If you are just tuning in now, this is part 3 about Progressing Exercise Sessions. If you want to get caught up on Part 1 and Part 2, here are the links to those blogs:https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=553 https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=554 Okay&hel...
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Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Progressing Exercise Sessions – Part 2
Last week, we discussed the things you need to THINK about for progressing your patients with exercise therapies, and the questions you need to ask yourself about the patient (and owner). This week, I want to talk about HOW to progress a patient. More specifical...
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Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Progressing Exercise Sessions – Part 1
How do you progress your patient?How hard do you push?Is some soreness acceptable after an exercise session? This conversation came up at my work this week and it reminded me of conversations I’ve had with other physiotherapists about new grad physios (in human practic...
05
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Hormonally Stretchy Hip Ligaments?
This week I read a blog. It was highlighting lessons learned from engineered ligaments. I don’t want to deep dive into the article. I just wanted to share one take away point and see where or if it fits with our canine population. “48 hours of h...