Laurie's Blogs.
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Apr 2017
Apr 2017
Puppy epiphanies
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...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Spondylosis in a Young Agility Dog
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...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Muscle Activation During Agility Tasks – Literature Review
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...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Functional alternative exercises for the core
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...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Stop Sitting Pretty! - Expanded Viewpoint!
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, ...
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Feb 2017
Feb 2017
Honouring Complexities when treating a patient
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...
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Feb 2017
Feb 2017
Assessing for Proprioception
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...
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Feb 2017
Feb 2017
Removing sight might enhance other senses
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...
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Feb 2017
Feb 2017
Knee injuries & changes in the brain
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. ...
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Jan 2017
Jan 2017
If I could make a day for you…
Does anybody recognize that line from the movie Babe? Keep reading, it will make sense. So, the inspiration for this blog was a “Participaction” post that discussed how physical activity can improve mental health. We see it with people all the time. &...