Laurie's Blogs.

Treating animals with disc lesions using physical therapy manual techniques (mobilizations or traction) is often met with concern by non-rehab veterinarians.  However, it is common-place in human practice.  Mechanical and neurophysiological effects have been the rationa...

 I recently treated a human.  What?  A human?  Yes!  A real human that was actually happy to have me work on her! Here’s the story.  The human in question is a therapist that works with me at my clinic.  She was walking her dog, and h...

ACL injuries are prevalent in both dogs and people!  We are well aware of the issues as they present acutely after injury and post-operatively.  Issues such as pain, swelling, gait modifications, osteoarthritis, and loss of strength to name a few.  Trauma to the AC...

  So, here’s my story and how it might relate to helping our animal patients heal. Last Saturday I was awakened by stomach pains at about 5 am.  Just diffuse abdominal pain.  I went to the bathroom figuring that a good cleansing vomit would be comin...

For this blog post, I just wanted to share one of the articles reviewed in the latest FourLeg News.  Cheers!   Becker W, Kowaleski MP, McCarthy RJ, Blake CA.  Extracorporeal shockwave therapy for shoulder lameness in dogs. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 51: 15-19, 2015....

 I came across the following: Beware believing or giving a definite diagnoses. It might ossify your approach & (by default) your treatments.Ossified Diagnoses : Everyone Loses.Adaptive Diagnoses : Everyone Smartens.https://cinemasays.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/th...

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physio), CAFCI, CCRT This blog topic comes from a blog I found about whether or not it is appropriate to mobilize a painful lax ankle sprain.  http://www.themanualtherapist.com/2017/04/mmt-q-should-i-mobilize-painful-lax.html&n...

I’m repurposing this blog.  I just put it out on my clinic website… but I like it enough to repost it for all of you!  (Things to think about!) This blog has been inspired by a few different experiences I’ve had lately: Three client stories, and ...

I hate SOAP. I don’t use SOAP.I use my own charting categories, and I’ll suggest you might like to do the same!Did I make you raise your eyebrows at the title?  Just a little?  Likely not!  Ah, disappointing… Okay, so when we have interns co...

 The placebo effect of physical therapy gets talked about frequently in various physio-circles.  We know that in research “the placebo effect” can account for 30% of a patient’s reported improvement.  As best I can recall, I was trained to think t...