Canine Cushing’s disease commonly presents with muscle weakness and atrophy, and occasionally with additional degeneration of the muscle fibers that is best described as a myopathy. Being able to recognise the signs of this myopathy is essential to the correct...
By Anna Lloyd and Kirsten Straszacker Anatomy forms the very foundation of everything we do as Vetrehabbers, and thankfully, it’s an area we can be constantly reviewing and studying! To that end, let's discuss the anatomy and biomechanics of the elbow joint. We’ll...
Recently, we shared a post on social media that stated: Back pain shuts down the multifidus and tightens the long back muscles, locking the spine.Rehab isn’t a bonus. It’s essential. A member of our community came back to us with a genuinely excellent question: Are we...
A quick search in the Small Animal Vetrehabbers Facebook community shows eight posts where professionals have asked for advice about Tethered Cord Syndrome patients, or where TCS has come up in the case discussions where Vetrehabbers have become stuck with a...
In a webinar presented by Dr Michael Davis on Exercise in environmental extremes, and again in a Hydro Training Video where I discussed a research paper on the Physiological changes in swimming dogs, it was highlighted over and over again that on a physiological...
Today I write to you as myself, Ané Lloyd, and not as Onlinepethealth – mostly because I want to share my personal observations and views when it comes to dissections, and my experiences during a particular dissections I was able to attend and participate in. But also...
Dr Patrice Mich from Canine Rehabilitation Institute presented a series of webinars focused on veterinary orthotics and prosthetics (V-OP) to the Onlinepethealth Members. I would love to share some of the most eye-opening insights I gained from this series. Whether...
On our journey to increase the validity of our profession, as well as our continual striving for improved patient outcomes, the use of clinical metrology instruments (CMI) can provide us with validated outcome measures to assess patient response to treatment, and...
"Years have been added to life; now we must add life to years." – WHO Through advances in veterinary medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle, dogs and cats are living longer than ever. This increased lifespan, however, does not always correlate with an improved...
Trying to synthesise the research available on photobiomodulation (PBM) is overwhelming – at least, if you’re anything like me! There is such a volume of research available on the subject, but many papers don’t share all the parameters they used, making comparison...