Laurie's Blogs.

 

30
Mar 2014

Rib or Disc

Hi Laurie,I saw a soft-coated wheaten terrier yesterday that had an incident of non weight bearing lameness in a front limb. He is an agility dog and really well conditioned. Treatment has gone well. Yesterday he seemed at first fully weight bearing. After inspecting more closely...
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23
Mar 2014

Question about 'Agility Pit' (aka Teres Major strains)

Hello most esteemed colleague,     I look forward to watching your videos on Monday morning before my day.  Thank you so much!     Lately I've been pondering how to best strengthen the canine shoulder to prevent these [Teres Major Stra...
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16
Mar 2014

Visualizing meniscal lesions

In today's blog, I wanted to share one of the research reviews from the latest edition of FourLeg News:Apparently, cadaveric studies have shown arthroscopy to be more sensitive than arthrotomy in detecting meniscal tears.  This study compared detection rates in clinical case...
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09
Mar 2014

Contralateral nerve damage following TPLO

Laurie, I have a quick question. I had a client with very overweight Lab that blew out his ACL on his LEFT leg.  I told her I would not do surgery until the dog lost weight. He was in rehab with me for two months and lost a bit of weight.  Anyhow, he did become sound an...
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02
Mar 2014

Patient experience & customer service

This week's blog, I just wanted to direct you to some videos that I think you might find interesting.  They tie in with this week's educational Business & Marketing audio.  Enjoy!1. Patient satisfaction versus patient experience  2. Richard Branson's visio...
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16
Feb 2014

Learning by Failure

Aloha my friends! Two different items have come to my attention of late, and both with the same topic - Failure.  Now the word failure tends to have negative connotations to it, but both of these sources of information took a different slant to that. The first fail...
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09
Feb 2014

Incline Treadmill Walking

This blog presents an article from one of the Fall FourLeg Newsletters.Laurer SK, Hillman RB, Hosgood GL.  Effects of treadmill inclination on electromyographic activity and hind limb kinematics in healthy hounds at a walk.  Am J Vet Res 2009, 70 (5): 658 – 64.Wan...
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02
Feb 2014

GuestBlog- Alzheimers & Nutrition Commentary

Hey Laurie,I just finished watching your 2 part canine dementia videos. It just so happens I am currently reading a really interesting book Called “Grain Brain” by Dr David Perlmutter. A neurologist who specializes in brain and movement disorders. His focus is on...
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26
Jan 2014

Advice from members

Hi Laurie,I'm enjoying watching your videos and reading your articles; I'm glad I signed up for the members access. I just watched the video on equipment recommendations. And thought I would share that if anyone is looking for an ultrasound I have found the ITO US-101L very ...
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19
Jan 2014

No-one's going to hurt you...

Hi Laurie, I've retired now and only occasionally get called in to do relief where I used to work.  I like to think they can't live with out me, Ha Ha.  No truth to that rumor. Anyway, so often I use a tip which I learned from you when I attended the CRI Thera...
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