Laurie's Blogs.
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Apr 2017
Apr 2017
Missing a leg? What happens to the remaining 3?
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...
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Apr 2017
Apr 2017
Type of Exercise and Recovery Need
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...
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Apr 2017
Apr 2017
The Lactic Acid Lies
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...
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Apr 2017
Apr 2017
Turmeric & Curcumin - Considerations & Safety
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 ...
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Apr 2017
Apr 2017
Puppy epiphanies
On Saturday, I had an interesting conversation with one of my coworkers. She was telling me about two dogs she had seen recently; one a puppy and one a 3-year old. Both dogs had been referred with essentially an ‘open diagnosis’ (i.e. the others that had s...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Spondylosis in a Young Agility Dog
A few days ago, I saw a 3 year old intact female border collie with a 2 week history of rear end weakness after heavy work. On exam, I could not elicit pain anywhere, but did find a subtle weakness on the right rear. I did some acupuncture and laser. The following day reg vet did...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Muscle Activation During Agility Tasks – Literature Review
Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT This blog is by special request… this is for you, Dr. Carole Nicholson, DVM, CCRT, CVSMT. An analysis of the paper: https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-017-0985-8 The magnitud...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Functional alternative exercises for the core
By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physio.), CAFCI, CCRT Subsequent to my blogs about ‘Don’t Sit Pretty’, I’ve been asked to provide alternatives to working the core in dogs. I broke down some of my suggestions into three different ca...
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Mar 2017
Mar 2017
Stop Sitting Pretty! - Expanded Viewpoint!
By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physiotherapy), CAFCI, CCRTwww.FourLeg.comwww.CanineFitness.com See the picture… this is what we’re talking about. Teaching your dog to do this is all the rage in canine sporting groups, training groups, ...
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Feb 2017
Feb 2017
Honouring Complexities when treating a patient
I came upon another great blog this week: http://www.billhartman.net/blog/from-my-notebook-complexity-and-constraints/ The premise of the blog was that humans are complex adaptive systems, and that the system is modified by behaviours. At any time that we want to...