Laurie's Blogs.

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...

I made an interesting finding the other day with one of my patients.  The dog has Chiari malformation / syringomyelia (CMSM), and occasionally has ‘fits’ where she gets low, goes into a scratching pattern, and cries.  Since there’s not much (other than...

This blog provides just a handful of studies to boost your brain power!  Have a read and grow your knowledge. 1.  Carprofen is better than acetaminophen with codeine for ameliorating lameness in dogs with experimentally induced synovitis of the stifle. Budsber...

I’ve been messaging back and forth with a UK animal physio about a case that turned out to be a nerve sheath tumour.  The most recent round of discussion has been about treatment now that the diagnosis has been established.  The diagnosing veterinarian told the ow...

This week’s topic is about reflective practice.  This is the practice of using reflection as a means of learning from experiences to advance one’s expertise, but also as a means to problem solve through complex problems that arise in clinical practice. Refle...

GUEST BLOG...Carrie Smith, BScPT, CCRT
Kemptville Canine Centrehttps://www.kemptvillecanine.com/ Gunner is a 1-year-old Chocolate Lab with a 3-week history of left hind leg lameness. HistoryGunner is a young, healthy dog with no history of any medical or orthopaedic i...

A culmination of multiple different things led to this post and I didn’t really know what to call it.  Essentially, what I want to talk about is clinical reasoning, but that’s not a captivating title!!!  So instead, “Stuff between the ears” has a...

Finally!  Here it is, the survey results for how rehab practitioners are using exercise for their osteoarthritic patients.   The survey was based on a blog I wrote about a month ago subsequent to reading a paper about why exercise is effective in reducing pain in p...

I found a great podcast on this topic. https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/1-talking-tendinopathy-with-dr-ebonie-rio/id1533280935?i=1000492383489  It was a discussion / interview with Dr. Ebonie Rio, a researcher at La Trobe University in Australia.  It fits...

I found a couple of articles about stretching or mobilization on muscle activation, and ROM that I thought to be worthy of sharing!

Here are the sources:Santos CX, Beltrão NB, Pirauá ALT, Durigan JLQ, Behm D, de Araújo RC. Static Stretching Intensity Doe...