Laurie's Blogs.

Are you familiar with the following paper? Krekoukias et al., Spinal mobilization vs conventional physiotherapy in the management of chronic low back pain due to spinal disk degeneration: a randomized controlled trial.  J Man Manip Ther 25 (2017) 66-73.https://www.ncbi....

 I found a blog on tips for encouraging healthy pet diets (http://www.lifelearn.com/2017/10/18/4-tips-for-encouraging-healthy-pet-diets/) and it reminded me of a couple of stories. A longtime client at my clinic was bringing his dog in for his underwater treadmill (UWT)...

Veterinary Medicine has progressed and expanded exponentially over the last several decades.  The options available to our pets are astounding, from top of the line surgeries, to cancer treatments, from fancy diagnostics, to a whole host of pharmaceuticals.  But, has th...

My last blog ruffled some feathers. (Fair enough.)  But, it allowed for an intelligent conversation back and forth, which I'd like to share below.Laurie:I have been subscribed to your emails since I attended your roundtable discussion on cruciate disease at the last STAAR co...

Seriously!  Since when did manual therapy become NEW in Canine Rehab??  A recent advertisement for a course deemed manual therapy to be ‘the hottest up and coming topic’ in canine rehabilitation.  That just had me fuming!!!  Furthermore, the progra...

Whoa!  Now that sounds like a mouthful, doesn’t it?  This blog is inspired from the book I’m currently listening to, The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge.  It’s filled with great stories and discusses neuroplasticity and the ability for ...

Some of you may have seen this question and answer on the VetRehab Chat group…. I wanted to expand on my answer a bit further here.  For those of you who didn’t see it or are not on the VetRehab chat group, I’ll give you the gist of the question. A ve...

This blog come from a podcast:  https://themovementfix.com/ep-31-dont-static-stretching/ Static stretches are often given to (or done for) patients as a treatment for poor flexibility, or done simply because we think we ‘should’. The primary thing ...

A blog recently came across my desk.  It started out like this: “I am a physical therapist.  I am a physical therapist who uses manual therapy.  One who uses exercise in many forms.  I use pain neuroscience and specific treatments to address persist...

P.S. The picture is just a joke... but the rest of the blog is real!This blog comes about as a result of an ever-present argument I see brought forth (mostly by vets and technicians) in regards to “PT’s needing to be supervised by a vet, because they might not recogni...