Laurie's Blogs.

Hi Laurie, I wanted to say thank you for all of the great insight and education you are providing with Four Leg Rehab Inc.  It has been a wonderful resource for me as I build my practice so thank you, thank you, thank you.  Also I have a question for you.  A colle...

GUEST BLOG – by Denise Testa (www.rubyourdog.com) Competitive Edge “Marketing expert Seth Godin writes about finding your purple cow: nobody stops to take a picture of a cow in a grassy field, but everybody would stop to take a photo of a purple cow because it is rem...

This blog is intended to be an inspirational post, and stems from a few different events or things I have heard or read lately.  Firstly, the other day on my way into Calgary to my clinic, I saw 4 coyotes all together in a field.  They were hunting mice.  Three we...

Hi Laurie, I am looking at a dog who had an injured cruciate and tightrope surgery done in summer of 2011 (18 months ago).  She did amazing in her rehab and did beautifully until about 6 months ago.   Upon examination, the patella is now luxating when the leg is i...

Good morning Laurie!!!  I had an observation and was wondering if you have come across this too:  I have 2 dogs right now- Wiggles is 3 months post right MPL revision and Luna is 8 weeks post left TTA (waited 6 months for diagnosis and ultimately the surgical repair). B...

Today’s muse was inspired by a recent research article I read: Freeman LM et al.  Nutritional and microbial analysis of bully sticks and survey of opinions about pet treats.  Can Vet J 54: 50 – 54, 2013. So the article discusses firstly, how “bully sti...

Hi LaurieI have a rehabber-friend that just contacted me about rehabbing a dog with bilateral OCD lesions in his shoulders. A surgeon performed surgery, but did not provide a protocol to follow, and will not return calls to my rehabber-friend either. The owner of the dog and the ...

Hi Laurie, So, it is times like this that I wish I lived there or you lived here...I have a pooch that I’m fostering.   He’s a 1-2 year old boxer that was dumped over a fence into a locked school-yard with a previously (estimating at least 7 weeks prior) bro...

We had a canine rehab intern with us at my clinic this past week.  In the past, I used to feel stress about, and even responsible for, the types of cases that would come in that week.  Despite the fact that it was out of my control, I felt bad if the intern was hoping...

Hi Laurie, One of my techs had a TPLO done on her dog about 8 months ago.  She did rehab on the dog and it recovered well except that when I saw it the other day at a clinic party, I noted that when the dog walks her TPLO leg has internal rotation of the tibia and thus ...