Laurie's Blogs.

 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...

I had a couple of blogs fully written to choose from today… but upon realizing that most of you might be seeing it on Christmas Day, I thought… ‘well that’s silly’.  Why ‘think’ on Christmas Day?!  Why not be inspired instead!...

       Well, this part of the discussion interests me the most.  Mostly because I had the good fortune to get to listen to Dr. Paul Hodges (a motor control & timing / back pain guru from the University of Queensland) lecture on this subject more than ...

Here goes my attempt at explaining and simplifying the concept of MOTOR CONTROL.  As eluded to in earlier blogs, it’s not all about ‘core stability’, and the notion was put forth that perhaps dogs don’t need that in the same capacity as would a human....

Why not break down each of the different components that are being lumped into what is being generically called ‘Core Stability’?  Core stability primarily suggests the abdominals and ‘friends’ (epaxials, pelvic floor, lats), but it excludes the proxi...

 Definitions & Descriptions https://www.physio-pedia.com/Core_stability "There is controversy and some confusion on the definition of the term “core stability”.  Traditionally this term has referred to the active component to the stabilizing sy...

Hi Laurie.I have attended many of your courses when you have been in the UK and wondered if you could answer a simple question.  Does 'core stability exist in the dog' and if so is it relevant?I am a spinal physio by background and have read masses of research on core stabil...

 This blog comes about, just after I wrote a letter advocating for physiotherapists to be allowed to summarize their findings and actually call our summation a PHYSICAL diagnosis to one of the veterinary boards up here in Canada.  There seems to be a huge bit of concern...

Are you familiar with the following paper? Krekoukias et al., Spinal mobilization vs conventional physiotherapy in the management of chronic low back pain due to spinal disk degeneration: a randomized controlled trial.  J Man Manip Ther 25 (2017) 66-73.https://www.ncbi....