Laurie's Blogs.

By Peter Jenkins, MBA– www.spectravet.com The question of laser therapy (aka photobiomodulation - PBMT) vs cancer is a common one, and, typically, you'll see cancer and neoplasia listed as contraindications for laser therapy.  However, it's not always the cas...

 http://cochranecountryfuneral.com/edge-dr-d-brian/ Forgive the ACDC reference…   But when trying to decide on a blog post to write this week, I decided to let it be a bit personal and about my actual thoughts for the week.  I’ve not had many...

 By Laurie Edge-Hughes As rehab practitioners, we need to realize that the human interaction component of what we do is often just as important as the physical direct treatment part of what we do!  Today’s blog is inspired by,  http://www.themanualtherap...

I am very fortunate to have somebody to search through and summarize blog posts for me!  Because it led me to a really great article that explained some recent research!  This time, the information came from:   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/1...

By Laurie Edge-Hughes, BScPT, MAnimSt (Animal Physiotherapy), CAFCI, CCRT Oh, my goodness, here we go again!  I do not understand why folks want so much to love this exercise, despite good arguments and evidence to the contrary. Okay, so if you don’t know wha...

OVERVIEW - WHAT’S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT DECELERATION?by Dr. Rachel Balckmer I work with a lot of sport dogs developing return-to-sport conditioning programs (following complete healing from an injury) or to address deficits in performance. One of the greatest challenges t...

Here’s what I learned this week.   There is a saying “Fire Fast, Hire Slow”.   This week challenged me on both of these fronts.  We had a mass staff upheaval at my clinic this week.  Long story short, in less than 48 hours, I lost t...

by Peter A Jenkins, MBA A frequently-recurring question regarding the clinical use of Laser Therapy is whether treating over active epiphyses is contraindicated.  The general list of contraindications to Low-Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) – now, formally, Photobi...

 Not so long ago we had a surgeon state that all of the lasering we had been doing to one of his patients had caused the growth plates to close prematurely.  It was a young dog, for whom we were providing pre-hab for a torn ACL while we waited for growth plates to close...

From:  https://mikereinold.com/shoulder-dislocations-from-weightlifting-restoring-chronic-weakness-unsafe-pt-treatments/  This ‘blog’ is actually a video-cast where Mike Reinold and his team answer questions.  It’s usually quite good.  O...