Laurie's Blogs.

A blog recently came across my desk.  It started out like this: “I am a physical therapist.  I am a physical therapist who uses manual therapy.  One who uses exercise in many forms.  I use pain neuroscience and specific treatments to address persist...

P.S. The picture is just a joke... but the rest of the blog is real!This blog comes about as a result of an ever-present argument I see brought forth (mostly by vets and technicians) in regards to “PT’s needing to be supervised by a vet, because they might not recogni...

 I had a patient in last week.  A 6-month-old Portuguese Water Dog puppy.  He had SIJ pain and dysfunction, and pelvic asymmetry.  Now, this is a puppy I’ve been following since he came to this owner at approximately 2ish months of age.  So, I ...

 I was asked an interesting question.  Do I know of anyone who has used cryostimulation (aka. cryosauna technology / whole body cryotherapy / partial body cryotherapy) on a dog?  The short answer is ‘no’.  But I wanted to look up the research a bit...

Treating animals with disc lesions using physical therapy manual techniques (mobilizations or traction) is often met with concern by non-rehab veterinarians.  However, it is common-place in human practice.  Mechanical and neurophysiological effects have been the rationa...

 I recently treated a human.  What?  A human?  Yes!  A real human that was actually happy to have me work on her! Here’s the story.  The human in question is a therapist that works with me at my clinic.  She was walking her dog, and h...

ACL injuries are prevalent in both dogs and people!  We are well aware of the issues as they present acutely after injury and post-operatively.  Issues such as pain, swelling, gait modifications, osteoarthritis, and loss of strength to name a few.  Trauma to the AC...

  So, here’s my story and how it might relate to helping our animal patients heal. Last Saturday I was awakened by stomach pains at about 5 am.  Just diffuse abdominal pain.  I went to the bathroom figuring that a good cleansing vomit would be comin...

For this blog post, I just wanted to share one of the articles reviewed in the latest FourLeg News.  Cheers!   Becker W, Kowaleski MP, McCarthy RJ, Blake CA.  Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for shoulder lameness in dogs. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 51: 15-19, 2015....