Laurie's Blogs.
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Jan 2018
Jan 2018
Facing Challenges
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...
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Jan 2018
Jan 2018
Guest Blog - LLLT/PBM vs Active Epiphyses
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...
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Jan 2018
Jan 2018
Laser and Growth Plates
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...
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Dec 2017
Dec 2017
Restoring Chronic Weakness
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...
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Dec 2017
Dec 2017
A Christmas Blog
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!...
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Dec 2017
Dec 2017
Your muscles don't have rhythm! Or rather... when muscle timing is 'off'!
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 ...
10
Dec 2017
Dec 2017
Maybe some Motor Control?
Here goes my attempt at explaining and simplifying the concept of MOTOR CONTROL. As eluded to in earlier blogs, it’s not all about ‘core stability’, and the notion was put forth that perhaps dogs don’t need that in the same capacity as would a human....
03
Dec 2017
Dec 2017
Changing definitions... BALANCE TRAINING & what the research shows
Why not break down each of the different components that are being lumped into what is being generically called ‘Core Stability’? Core stability primarily suggests the abdominals and ‘friends’ (epaxials, pelvic floor, lats), but it excludes the proxi...
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Nov 2017
Nov 2017
What IS Core Stability?
Definitions & Descriptions https://www.physio-pedia.com/Core_stability "There is controversy and some confusion on the definition of the term “core stability”. Traditionally this term has referred to the active component to the stabilizing sy...
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Nov 2017
Nov 2017
Does the dog actually need core stability?
Hi Laurie.I have attended many of your courses when you have been in the UK and wondered if you could answer a simple question. Does 'core stability exist in the dog' and if so is it relevant?I am a spinal physio by background and have read masses of research on core stabil...