Laurie's Blogs.

What is Mesotherapy?

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

Mesotherapy in veterinary medicine involves the injection of medications, vitamins, minerals, and other substances into specific points on an animal's body. This technique is primarily used for therapeutic purposes, such as pain management, anti-inflammatory treatment, woun...

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Feb 2024

Let’s Talk Flyball!

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

A handful of studies have come forth over the last few years that look at the sport of flyball for dogs. Flyball is a high-energy, adrenaline-surging, noisy canine sporting event. As with any sport, this one has the potential for injury. The following rese...

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Feb 2024

Too Much, Too Fast, Too Soon…

Do you have clients with canine athletes? Or perhaps clients who are athletes themselves? Have you come across the client that pushes their dog a little bit too much, too fast, too soon?Chances are, you’ve met one or two of these. Here’s the scenario....

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Feb 2024

An Interesting Study About Fibrotic Myopathy

A recent study was published on Fibrotic Myopathy. This of course is a condition where by a caudal thigh muscle develops fibrosis. It tends to occur in semitendinosis muscle or the gracilis muscle. Etiology is not fully understood. Here’s the study:Wi...

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Feb 2024

Hypermobility and the correlation with behavioural traits such as anxiety!

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

Here’s a study that blew my mind! Bowen J, Fatjó J, Serpell JA, Bulbena-Cabré A, Leighton E, Bulbena A. First evidence for an association between joint hypermobility and excitability in a non-human species, the domestic dog. Sci Rep. 201...

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Jan 2024

Fascinating Tales of Neck Mobilization Research Successes

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

Let’s talk about neck mobilizations for a wee while. There are so few canine studies in this area… okay, I looked, there are precisely zero!!! So, why not look at two legged guinea pig studies (i.e. those conducted on human patients) to guide us and...

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Jan 2024

Hung up on evidence-based physiotherapy practice

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

I was perusing a physio forum where a physiotherapy student was asking about evidence based physiotherapy practice. He was disappointed that on some of the student internships he had been on, that is preceptors were not practicing evidence based medicine. They were us...

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Jan 2024

Neck Pain, Eye Pain, and Manual Therapy to the Rescue

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

Terrible picture of Laurie, no makeup, bad hair, comfy clothes....looks like a bag lady... doing C1 assess and treat.It has been really stupidly cold here this past weekend. Overnight lows down below -40 C/F. Oh man, it is draining – even being inside! [Th...

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Jan 2024

Land Treadmill or Water Treadmill for the Neurologic Dog?

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

The following blog highlights a journal article that as intended to provide scientific evidence for one purpose, but inadvertently helps we canine rehab clinicians for a different purpose! I quite like to find little unintended nuggets of wisdom tucked into research a...

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Dec 2023

Conservative Management of IVDH and Disc Resorption or Regression

Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt, CAFCI, CCRT, Cert. Sm. Anim. Acup / Dry Needling

From Khan S, et al. JSAP. 2022 Oct;63(10):797. So my last blog received a comment that I think would be good to explore in this blog. (https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=650). The comment pertained to the following sentence in my last blog. &ldq...