Laurie's Blogs.

 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...

The fascial system is the latest craze in the health care providers’ arena.  Rightly so!  It’s been a missing link for far too long, and just more recently have ‘the masses’ started to take a serious look at all that the fascial system can impact...

So, a topic about bracing popped up on a Facebook group I’m on.  Essentially, a rehab vet was asking about others’ opinions on bracing for cruciate deficiency, as she had been on another page where vets were knocking down the use of a brace.  Apparently one ...

The drug tramadol is getting knocked down a peg or two!  A recent (Feb 2018) veterinary study showed that tramadol provides no clinical benefit for dogs with osteoarthritis of the elbow or stifle joint.  The researchers (Budsberg et al)1 from the University of Georgia s...

This blog was an easy one for me to do… essentially, I want to show you an interesting case that came up because of last week’s training video – The Case of the Flopping Carpus.  Essentially the ‘mystery’ was that the dog in MY videos likely ha...