Laurie's Blogs.
09
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
Knowledge Nuggets – Carprophen… Chubby dogs… Yellow Labs…
This blog provides just a handful of studies to boost your brain power! Have a read and grow your knowledge. 1. Carprofen is better than acetaminophen with codeine for ameliorating lameness in dogs with experimentally induced synovitis of the stifle. Budsber...
02
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
Palliative Care Physiotherapy
I’ve been messaging back and forth with a UK animal physio about a case that turned out to be a nerve sheath tumour. The most recent round of discussion has been about treatment now that the diagnosis has been established. The diagnosing veterinarian told the ow...
26
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Reflective Practice – Learning to Practice as a Professional
This week’s topic is about reflective practice. This is the practice of using reflection as a means of learning from experiences to advance one’s expertise, but also as a means to problem solve through complex problems that arise in clinical practice. Refle...
19
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Clinical Reasoning - Left hind leg lameness in a 1-year-old Lab
GUEST BLOG...Carrie Smith, BScPT, CCRT
Kemptville Canine Centrehttps://www.kemptvillecanine.com/ Gunner is a 1-year-old Chocolate Lab with a 3-week history of left hind leg lameness. HistoryGunner is a young, healthy dog with no history of any medical or orthopaedic i...
12
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Professional practice is about the stuff between the ears…
A culmination of multiple different things led to this post and I didn’t really know what to call it. Essentially, what I want to talk about is clinical reasoning, but that’s not a captivating title!!! So instead, “Stuff between the ears” has a...
05
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Current Canine Rehab Trends in Exercise Prescription
Finally! Here it is, the survey results for how rehab practitioners are using exercise for their osteoarthritic patients. The survey was based on a blog I wrote about a month ago subsequent to reading a paper about why exercise is effective in reducing pain in p...
28
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Tendinopathy - how to address & more!
I found a great podcast on this topic. https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/1-talking-tendinopathy-with-dr-ebonie-rio/id1533280935?i=1000492383489 It was a discussion / interview with Dr. Ebonie Rio, a researcher at La Trobe University in Australia. It fits...
21
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Knowledge Nuggets: Intensity of Stretching on ROM and Joint Mobilizations effect on Muscle Activation
I found a couple of articles about stretching or mobilization on muscle activation, and ROM that I thought to be worthy of sharing!
Here are the sources:Santos CX, Beltrão NB, Pirauá ALT, Durigan JLQ, Behm D, de Araújo RC. Static Stretching Intensity Doe...
14
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
So, This Happened!
I was going to find a paper to review or another blog for inspiration… but honestly, this happened and it’s pretty big. So, it’s my blog for this week. On Saturday I won the inaugural Veterinary Rehabilitation Therapist of the Year award 2020. ...
07
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Osteoarthritis and Exercise
High quality evidence exists to support exercise as a treatment for osteoarthritis. This has been show via research on humans for years now. We don’t have this sort of research on the veterinary side of the equation… so why not look at the human research ...