Laurie's Blogs.

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...

I came across an interesting blog.  It makes some good points and expresses some thoughts that I’ve had myself.  First off, the title is Outcome Measures Suck.  Eek!  We’re not supposed to say that outload or even think that, right?  But I adm...

For this blog inspiration, I give credit to Silvia Lavallee (PT) from Manitoba, Canada.  She forwarded an elbast that the Manitoba Physiotherapy Association sent out to their members on this topic. Here’s the full blurb:

Clinical PearlSubmitted by Sarah Conci...

In this week’s blog, I want to talk about ‘late onset patellar luxation’.  Now, I bet some of you are thinking, ‘late onset, what the heck is that?’  Well, have you have seen a dog that is aging or who has suffered some rear end or rear lim...