Laurie's Blogs.

Here's what your patients are 'cooking up' for their dog at home.  But you should know more! In this blog, I was intending to do a review of a review paper on Turmeric / Curcumin.  However, the idea was just as dumb as it sounded.  How do you do a review of a ...

On Saturday, I had an interesting conversation with one of my coworkers.  She was telling me about two dogs she had seen recently; one a puppy and one a 3-year old.  Both dogs had been referred with essentially an ‘open diagnosis’ (i.e. the others that had s...

A few days ago, I saw a 3 year old intact female border collie with a 2 week history of rear end weakness after heavy work. On exam, I could not elicit pain anywhere, but did find a subtle weakness on the right rear. I did some acupuncture and laser. The following day reg vet did...

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT This blog is by special request… this is for you, Dr. Carole Nicholson, DVM, CCRT, CVSMT.  An analysis of the paper: https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-017-0985-8 The magnitud...

By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physio.), CAFCI, CCRT Subsequent to my blogs about ‘Don’t Sit Pretty’, I’ve been asked to provide alternatives to working the core in dogs.  I broke down some of my suggestions into three different ca...

By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physiotherapy), CAFCI, CCRTwww.FourLeg.comwww.CanineFitness.com  See the picture… this is what we’re talking about.  Teaching your dog to do this is all the rage in canine sporting groups, training groups, ...

I came upon another great blog this week:  http://www.billhartman.net/blog/from-my-notebook-complexity-and-constraints/ The premise of the blog was that humans are complex adaptive systems, and that the system is modified by behaviours.  At any time that we want to...

So, the last two blogs have been about proprioception:  How the brain changes after an injury to a joint… and therefore how we may need to increase training of joint / limb awareness; Ideas for proprioceptive retraining in dogs sans-visual feedback.  Today, I jus...

This is part two of ‘Knee injuries and changes in the brain’.  See last week’s blog on the subject.  In last week’s blog I discussed that the same findings and suggestions for humans (i.e. at end stage rehab following a knee injury, we need to re...

This blog was inspired by an article that I shared on my Facebook page:  http://www.neuroscientistnews.com/clinical-updates/when-you-injure-your-knee-it-changes-your-brain#.WJSWwfBUGtQ.facebookIt created a wee bit of discussion and I wanted to expand upon some thoughts. ...