Laurie's Blogs.

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...

This blog was inspired by a Mike Reinold Podcast:  https://mikereinold.com/quadriceps-to-hamstring-ratio-in-acl-injuries-phds-and-passing-the-pt-boards/  BTW his stuff is great!  Yes, it’s all ‘human’, but the veterinary / animal rehab side of thi...

 Literature review: Influence of in-house rehabilitation on the postoperative outcome of dogs with intervertebral disk herniation.Hodgson MM, Bevan JM, Evans RB, and Johnson TI.Veterinary Surgery. 2017;46:566-573. Objective: To determine the influence of in-house r...

So I hadn’t thought about using my own personal story as a blog post, but then I listened to a Physical Therapist’s podcast about a patient who had Temporomandibular Pain.  (http://www.themanualtherapist.com/2017/04/untold-physio-stories-s4e10-who-wants.html) &nb...

Remember a couple of blogs ago when I wrote The Lactic Acid Lies?  Here I’ll make an attempt at part two:  Who Should You Blame for your Muscle Fatigue? So we remember from high school biology (and several courses afterwards), muscles require ATP as an energy...

 So, this blog is a synopsis of a paper by GL Cole and D Millis, entitled The effect of limb amputation on standing weight distribution in the remaining three limbs in dogs.  (VCOT 2017; 30(1): 59-61.) And I wanted to review it for this blog because I had just quoted it...

By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physio), CAFCI, CCRTA very interesting blog crossed my desk.  https://bretcontreras.com/your-optimal-training-frequency-for-the-glutes-part-i-exercise-type/ Basically, the article discussed how often you should train a muscl...

By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt(Animal Physio), CAFCI CCRT We’ve all heard the lactic acid lies!  Chances are good you may have even repeated them even!  What we believed lactic acid was and did isn’t at all true.  In the mid 2000’s Lac...

Here's what your patients are 'cooking up' for their dog at home.  But you should know more! In this blog, I was intending to do a review of a review paper on Turmeric / Curcumin.  However, the idea was just as dumb as it sounded.  How do you do a review of a ...