Laurie's Blogs.
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Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Physical Rehabilitation and the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence
This blog is a review of a recent research article. Let’s start with the conclusion! If you read research papers, you likely read the title, the conclusion, and THEN everything in between. So, here’s the conclusion: “The reducti...
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Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Progressing Exercise Sessions – Part 3 - Measuring Outcomes
If you are just tuning in now, this is part 3 about Progressing Exercise Sessions. If you want to get caught up on Part 1 and Part 2, here are the links to those blogs:https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=553 https://www.fourleg.com/Blog?b=554 Okay&hel...
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Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Progressing Exercise Sessions – Part 2
Last week, we discussed the things you need to THINK about for progressing your patients with exercise therapies, and the questions you need to ask yourself about the patient (and owner). This week, I want to talk about HOW to progress a patient. More specifical...
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Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Progressing Exercise Sessions – Part 1
How do you progress your patient?How hard do you push?Is some soreness acceptable after an exercise session? This conversation came up at my work this week and it reminded me of conversations I’ve had with other physiotherapists about new grad physios (in human practic...
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Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Hormonally Stretchy Hip Ligaments?
This week I read a blog. It was highlighting lessons learned from engineered ligaments. I don’t want to deep dive into the article. I just wanted to share one take away point and see where or if it fits with our canine population. “48 hours of h...
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Jan 2022
Jan 2022
Hyperkyphosis - Thoughts on Treatment
I came across a journal article on the topic of “Decreasing thoracic hyperkyphosis – What treatments are most effective? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.” I thought this might be an interesting topic to discuss as it relates to dogs with ‘...
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Jan 2022
Jan 2022
What is Transneuronal Degeneration?
And can I apply laser therapy and acupuncture on the same day?A question came up on a veterinary rehab chat group about whether doing acupuncture and laser on the same day was appropriate. The person who posed the question thought that she had heard that these therapie...
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Jan 2022
Jan 2022
Preventing Spondylosis in Boxers – Mind Blowing Knowledge Nugget!
I belong to a small group of experts in the field of veterinary manual therapy. We try to meet twice a month to discuss research, findings, thoughts, and how to advance the understanding of and acceptance of manual therapy in animal healthcare. We’ve had some gr...
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Jan 2022
Jan 2022
ADHD and Dogs
University of Helsinki has come up with some more unique and useful research again! This time a doctoral student has researched dogs and behavioural factors that appear to mimic human ADHD. From the paper, “Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a pre...
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Jan 2022
Jan 2022
The Noisy Knee
Have you had a patient with Popping, Snapping, Catching, Clicking, Crunching, Cracking, Creaking, Grinding, Grating, or Clunking at their stifle joint? It MIGHT be an issue or it might not! A human research study gives some advice on when to worry! Let&rsqu...
