Laurie's Blogs.

Lately I’ve been seeing more initial assessment than I usually do.  I’m covering a maternity leave at my clinic and doing extra hours to fill in missing time slots.  This means that as compared to my normal schedule where I see my regular clients, or provide...

Thank you to everyone that participated!  Twenty-two of you took the time to provide feedback!  That’s amazing!  Some wonderful answers!  Let’s get to it!

 Who answered the call?•10 Veterinarians•9 Physios / PTs•3 Veterinar...

I have stacks of JAVMA’s laying around.  Periodically, they are sorted through and all of the small animal ortho or neuro articles are ripped out and set aside to read at a later date.  Well, this is one of those later dates!  There are some good insights in ...

Last month I did a survey.  It was about rehab correlations.  Things you’ve noticed as a rehab practitioner that go together.  My example was, cruciate injury and trigger points in the Quads, Sartorius, and Tensor fascia lata.  Thank you to those that pa...

I found an interesting review of a paper.This is the paper:
Forsgård JA, Metsähonkala L, Kiviranta AM, et al. Seizure precipitating factors in dogs with idiopathic epilepsy. J Vet Intern Med. 2019;33(2):701-707.And this is the review:
https://files.brief.vet/2019-0...

 Remember the blog about why dog owners post rehab questions on Facebook?  Well, I found another article that plays into the comments about the rehab professionals not being able to help their dogs get back to sport, or were unable to prescribe adequate exercises, or co...

By Ansi van der Walt, MSc PhysiotherapyWhat is arthritis? Good question. Opinions as to what diagnostic criteria constitute the pathology broadly referred to as osteoarthritis (OA) differs in literature. There are three broad definitions of osteoarthritis. These are radiographic ...

You know when you read research articles and you start by reading the title, then the objective, then the conclusion, and THEN the body of the abstract.  That’s how I read abstracts.  It’s a streamlining process to get to the point of deciding whether a jour...

There is a trend for dog owners to go online to ask question about their dog – seeking sometimes what seems to be medical advice.  A colleague of mine posted the following question, asking about this, and more to the point why people were doing this and what they felt ...

Simon Sinek posted a fabulous video on LinkedIn.  (P.S.  If you don’t know who Simon Sinek is, you need to google him, read some of his books, and follow him on any media stream you can find him.)  The title of this posting is A New Way to Think About Busines...