Laurie's Blogs.

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

 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 ...

This week’s theme for me has been the sense of monotony.  Hum-drum.  Boredom.  Same thing day after day.  I find that I wake up in the morning and the first question I ask myself is, ‘Work day or Home day?’  I sense of glimmer of panic t...