Laurie's Blogs.
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Jun 2017
Jun 2017
Do you use SOAP? Not me! No SOAP for me!
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...
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Jun 2017
Jun 2017
The Princess of Placebo
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...
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May 2017
May 2017
Post-Op ACL - Quads versus Hams Ratio
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...
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May 2017
May 2017
Literature Review - In house rehab after IVDH surgery
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...
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May 2017
May 2017
NOVEL PAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
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...
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May 2017
May 2017
Who Should You Blame for Muscle Fatigue – Calcium and Hydrogen
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...
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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 ...