03 Apr 2012
This assessment ’tick-sheet’ will help you to remember ALL of the things you should be doing when performing a musculoskeletal assessment.
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03 Apr 2012
Often the most important part of successful rehab is the assessment and diagnosis made by the rehab therapist. Physical therapists already possess unique assessment skills, and vets trained in animal rehab should have received additional training in physical therapy assessment skills in order to augment their veterinary diagnostics and create an appropriate rehab plan. The assessment techniques, enhanced deductive reasoning, and overall examination of function are what physical therapy and physical therapists are giving to the veterinary field.
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03 Apr 2012
Often the most important part of successful rehab is the assessment and diagnosis made by the rehab therapist. The assessment techniques, novel deductive reasoning skills, and examination of overall function are what physical therapy and physical therapists are bringing to the veterinary field. • Veterinary medicine tends to rely on what can be called a ‘patho-anatomical’ diagnosis, whereas physical therapy and human medicine to a certain extent look at what can be termed a ‘patho-functional’ assessment. Differences will be elucidated.• Weak muscles, short muscles, tight muscles, overactive muscles, joint restrictions (articular movement dysfunctions), peripheral nerve impairments, and/or pain can impact the FUNCTION of a patient.• Joint-play, end-feels, myotomes, dermatomes, resisted tests, and special tests... and how they impact your physical examination and ultimate diagnosis. (Scroll upwards after pressing ’play’ to actually watch the video!)
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27 Mar 2012
L Edge-Hughes. Canine Hip and Sacroiliac Disease: Selected Disorders and their Management with Physical Therapy. Clin Tech Sm Anim Pract 22:183-194, 2007.
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27 Mar 2012
Canine dementia can go by the synonyms of senility, senile dementia, senile cerebral dysfunction, cognitive impairment or cognitive dysfunction. Research is coming closer to understanding the reasons for this disease occurrence. Use of nutrition and supplementation has been shown to be effective in both the prevention and treatment of this disease of aging. As well, physical therapy techniques that are currently applied to the human Alzheimer’s disease patient may have a role to play in the treatment or prevention of this very similar disease process in the canine.
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27 Mar 2012
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27 Mar 2012
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26 Mar 2012
Presented at the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Convention, Calgary, Alberta, July 2010
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26 Mar 2012
The field of animal health care is changing rapidly. This phenomenon is partly due to the knowledge transfer from the human health care field to the veterinary field, but also to the fact that animal owners are expecting and demanding more alternative health care options and a wider range of services for their pets.
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26 Mar 2012
Rehabilitation pyramid (from Hertel, Deneger: A rehabilitation paradigm for restoring neuromuscular control following injury. Athl Ther Today, 3: 12 – 16; 1998)
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26 Mar 2012
Presented as an oral abstract at the 2008 Congress of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association, Ottawa, Ontario
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26 Mar 2012
Hold onto your sunglasses! You’ve seen them in the exhibit hall at the conferences, you’ve heard about them in the lectures, you’re seeing them advertised in magazines, and maybe your colleagues are extolling their virtues.
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26 Mar 2012
The animal industry has always been closely akin to the human field of medicine in many aspects. Surgical and diagnostic procedures, techniques, and equipment developed for humans are swift to appear in veterinary practice shortly there after.
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16 Feb 2012
Learn or review how to conduct a basic neurologic assessment on a dog. Reflexes, postural reactions, basic neuro-anatomy, and critical thinking in regards to neurologic cases are discussed. (Scroll upwards after pressing ’play’ to actually watch the video!)
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