Laurie's Blogs.

Here’s a topic I’ve gone on about before.  It’s about building relationships! Relationships are going to be foundational to growing your business or to keeping you afloat!I came across the following blog that discussed this concept a bit further:http:/...

  In my search for blog topics, I was pointed in the direction of gluteal weakness and patellar issues.  In particular, there seems to be an association between knee pathology and hip weakness, and a movement towards and bodies of research that support strengthenin...

 Wee!  I love when I come across a paper that presents something amazing from out of left field.  Here’s one that does exactly that! McCoss CA, Johnston R, Edwards DJ, Millward C. Preliminary evidence of Regional Interdependent Inhibition, using a 'Diaph...

In combing through some recent journal articles, I found one that sparked some inspiration for this week’s blog.   Does muscle guarding play a role in range of motion loss in patients with frozen shoulder?Hollmann, L. et al.Musculoskeletal Science & Pract...

 This week I decided to do a business & marketing blog since the Member’s Training is on business & marketing as well.  Keeping your brain working in a single category for the week!   My question to you is how do your patients book in with y...

This blog was inspired by a conversation with my newest staff therapist.  She had a case come in from a local shelter.  It was a 3-year-old dog who had had a Femoral Head and Neck Excision 10 weeks ago.  The chart notes indicated that the dog was receiving ‘p...

In this blog, I want to share a bit of a theory with everyone. Okay, so you’ve all seen (or felt) those older dogs, with tight, thick epaxial muscles in the lumbar spine.  I jokingly call them ‘beer cans’… because sometimes they can be that size...

So, I was going through some blog posting, and I found an interesting one:https://www.themanualtherapist.com/2017/08/an-easier-way-to-mobilize-cervical.html The gist of the blog is that sometimes when you feel a spinal joint, it may simply be too painful to mobilize it or it...

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physio), CAFCI, CCRT So, what do you think when you hear that your next patient is drooling more or gulping and clearing his throat more, perhaps even sneezing?  Well, this blog will give you one more differential to put into y...

Recently, and over the last few years, I’ve had a couple of cases that involved the diaphragm.  In each case, it was on a whim that I decided to do a diaphragm release.  Or rather, I had found very little wrong with these dogs, and so decided I needed to think out...