Laurie's Blogs.
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Mar 2025
Mar 2025
Localized Vibration Therapy for Canine Hip Dysplasia: Insights from a Pilot Study
P.S. Grok (AI) helped me to summarize this article. Nice job I think! Have a read!Cheers, LaurieA recent study published on August 21, 2024, in Frontiers in Veterinary Science (DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1424373) investigates the potential of localized vibration (L...
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Feb 2025
Feb 2025
Does TPLO surgery for CCL Tears Restore Natural Kinematics in Dogs?
Okay… I think I know the answer to this one already. But, I do love when research confirms what I have been finding. Here, this research group followed 8 adult dogs (4 French Bull Dogs and 4 Pit Bull Terriers) . One Frenchie had a TPLO and three others wer...
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Feb 2025
Feb 2025
A New Dog Taping Book
A new dog taping book has hit the market (in English)! Traute Schmidt and Yvonne Müller of Switzerland have crafted a lovely book with great pictures and descriptions to empower canine rehabilitation practitioners and dog owners alike to use kinesiology tape to a...
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Feb 2025
Feb 2025
Medial Meniscal Tears and the Posteromedial Joint Line Sulcus
It was years, no decades, ago that I learned about the posteromedial joint line sulcus. I had attended a lecture by a local veterinary surgeon. She discussed this area of the stifle joint as being a good landmark to detect subtle joint swelling at the stifle – w...
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Feb 2025
Feb 2025
Cruciate Repairs and the Effects on ROM and Lameness
A new research paper came out that looked at ROM in dogs following surgery for cruciate ligament rupture. They wanted to compare the differences in stifle joint range of motion (ROM), both flexion angle (FA) and extension angle (FA), for dogs that underwent tibial tub...
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Jan 2025
Jan 2025
Initial Assessment Neuro Dog & Talking to the Owner
Last week I had a big hole in my schedule one day, and I was asked if I might consider seeing a neuro dog, whose owners were really hoping to get in, sooner than their appointment the upcoming week. I said yes. The case was complicated. The dog was a ...
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Jan 2025
Jan 2025
New Canine Myofascial Trigger Point Research
Wondering about the location of myofascial trigger points (MTPs) in dogs with osteoarthritis?So, did a Brazilian group of veterinary researchers. Formenton M, Fantoni D, Gauthier L, et al. Prevalence and Location of Myofascial Trigger Points in Dogs with Osteoart...
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Jan 2025
Jan 2025
Mental Stimulation During Recovery and Rehab
This week I received an email question that, after answering, I thought, “This would actually make a fantastic blog!” The question, in a nutshell, was “What would you suggest to help a young active dog recovering from elbow arthroscopy who is la...
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Jan 2025
Jan 2025
Research into Effleurage
To go with this week’s Four Leg Rehab Minute, I decided to do a bit of a dive into the research around effleurage massage. This is what I found! Monteiro Rodrigues L, Rocha C, Ferreira HT, Silva HN. Lower limb massage in humans increases local perfusion and impac...
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Dec 2024
Dec 2024
Percussion Massage Before Exercise
It is known that static stretching prior to exercise can inhibit athletic performance. (Check out my article in FourLeg Member’s section on Stretching and Injury Prevention). Have you wondered about percussion massage and how that affects performance? Of course ...
