Laurie's Blogs.

Today’s blog is inspired by a two journal articles that crossed my desk recently.  While unrelated, they both fit into the category of Neuro and may be useful in enhancing your knowledge or clinical decision making!  Let’s dive in! von Pfeil DJF, Z...

What do you do with the old dog?  Let him rest?  Throw a bunch of cardio at him? Is there something that will help the senior dog live a little longer?  Well, there’s some human research that might shed some light. A journal article, Muscular Strength as...

 You’re smarter than you think and you have more to offer than you realize!  Where is this blog going, you might be wondering?  Well, this past Saturday I had the pleasure of doing a talk for Alberta Dachshund Rescue, and on Tuesday this week, I’ll give...

This week my blog post is inspired by two case reports I read of physiotherapists completing their Diploma in Canine Rehabilitation (our Canadian certification, through the Animal Rehab Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association), and a newsletter from another Canadian Ph...

Only a handful of responses came in regarding the Distance Consult Blog and Survey.  However, the handful that did come in are interesting. Firstly, there was a response to it on the FourLeg Facebook page. “Thanks for bringing this up, Laurie. I think it is o...

So, this blog sort of jumps out from way out of the blue!  I just happened to come across a postcast on the topic and it got me thinking! https://www.evidenceinmotion.com/blog/2018/12/05/clinical-podcast-adopting-telehealth-initiatives-dr-alan-lee/   I am...

Here’s a crazy thought!  It was passed on to me by my business partner. I had just said how I wanted to help one of our staff therapists with her hip pain, but that I was far less knowledgeable than some of the therapists she had already seen for her issue already.&nbs...

 I was debating what to write about for this week’s blog.  Would I go searching for new research, wait to see if an interesting case presented itself, or come up with an inspiring New Year’s blog full of inspiration and hope?  However, none of those thi...

Because I’ve had a bit of communication and dialogue with other therapists around the world subsequent to the last few blogs, I thought it would be timely to share some of the correspondence and thoughts in THIS blog! 1. The blog of Dec 1st, 2018:  https://ww...

 Hey Laurie, I have an athletic dog (agility competitor) that has had very slowly increasing amounts of internal rotation of the tibia on PROM of L stifle over the last year..... I had them doing exercises to externally rotate tibia actively to see if it was just a musc...