Laurie's Blogs.

 By Laurie Edge-Hughes As rehab practitioners, we need to realize that the human interaction component of what we do is often just as important as the physical direct treatment part of what we do!  Today’s blog is inspired by,  http://www.themanualtherap...

I am very fortunate to have somebody to search through and summarize blog posts for me!  Because it led me to a really great article that explained some recent research!  This time, the information came from:   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/1...

By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physiotherapy), CAFCI, CCRT Oh, my goodness, here we go again!  I do not understand why folks want so much to love this exercise, despite good arguments and evidence to the contrary. Okay, so if you don’t know wha...

OVERVIEW - WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT DECELERATION?by Dr. Rachel Balckmer I work with a lot of sport dogs developing return-to-sport conditioning programs (following complete healing from an injury) or to address deficits in performance. One of the greatest challenges t...

Here’s what I learned this week.   There is a saying “Fire Fast, Hire Slow”.   This week challenged me on both of these fronts.  We had a mass staff upheaval at my clinic this week.  Long story short, in less than 48 hours, I lost t...

by Peter A Jenkins, MBA A frequently-recurring question regarding the clinical use of Laser Therapy is whether treating over active epiphyses is contraindicated.  The general list of contraindications to Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) – now, formally, Photobi...

 Not so long ago we had a surgeon state that all of the lasering we had been doing to one of his patients had caused the growth plates to close prematurely.  It was a young dog, for whom we were providing pre-hab for a torn ACL while we waited for growth plates to close...

From:  https://mikereinold.com/shoulder-dislocations-from-weightlifting-restoring-chronic-weakness-unsafe-pt-treatments/  This ‘blog’ is actually a video-cast where Mike Reinold and his team answer questions.  It’s usually quite good.  O...

I had a couple of blogs fully written to choose from today… but upon realizing that most of you might be seeing it on Christmas Day, I thought… ‘well that’s silly’.  Why ‘think’ on Christmas Day?!  Why not be inspired instead!...

       Well, this part of the discussion interests me the most.  Mostly because I had the good fortune to get to listen to Dr. Paul Hodges (a motor control & timing / back pain guru from the University of Queensland) lecture on this subject more than ...