A Whole Body Approach to a Localised Lesion: Equine Navicular Syndrome
Equine Navicular Syndrome is known by many different names, but no matter what we have called it in the past, the prognosis has remained poor. An...
Guidelines for Treating Canine Arthritis Through the Stages of Progression
Canine arthritis can be divided into four stages. Treatment interventions for each stage can include owner education, rehabilitation, NSAIDs…
Complications of CCL Surgery, with Dr David Dycus
Cranial cruciate ligament rupture and its surgical correction is one of the most common reasons we see patients as Vetrehabbers. Being aware of the...
Pacing in Dogs: Normal Gait or Cause for Concern?
Pacing is often considered a compensatory gait pattern or a sign that musculoskeletal dysfunction is present in a dog. While pacing can certainly...
Canine Cushing’s Myopathy
Canine Cushing’s disease commonly presents with muscle weakness and atrophy, and occasionally with additional degeneration of the muscle fibers...
Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Training Young Horses
Over the last few years, I have found myself more and more strongly believing that horses should not be in work before they achieve skeletal...
Canine Elbow: Anatomy and Biomechanics
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...
Putting a Number on Pain: Quantifying and Recognising Pain in Equine Rehabilitation
With research allowing us to identify specific pain behaviours, we can now use composite pain scales in equines to quantify and monitor pain in rehab patients.
Is Multifidus Atrophy a Cause or a Consequence of Back Pain?
Recently, we shared a post on social media that stated: Back pain shuts down the multifidus and tightens the long back muscles, locking the...
How A Team Drives You Towards Excellence
It is well recognised that working within a team has many benefits, and our industry is no exception. The multi-disciplinary team is continuously...
Recognising Different Kinds of Research
It seems that every time I read a research paper, it is described in an entirely different way, with each kind of research having value in its own...
An Alternative Approach to Setting Goals
Halfway through the year, it is around now that many of us start to feel one of two things: proud of the progress we have made, or quietly...
Tethered Cord Syndrome: From Literature to Experience
A quick search in the Small Animal Vetrehabbers Facebook community shows eight posts where professionals have asked for advice about Tethered Cord...
Opening Multiple Branches of Your Vet Rehab Practice
Tanya Grantham from Animal Health and Hydro joins Megan to chat about opening multiple branches of your Veterinary Rehabilitation Practice. I would...
Our Differences, Known and Unknown
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...
Animal Chiropractic Demystified: What You Don’t Know
By Dr Michele BroadhurstIntegrative Animal Solutions When Ané asked me to write this blog, it filled me with both excitement and trepidation....
How Massage can Change your Four-Legged’s Life
As Veterinary Rehabilitation Therapists, massage is one of our greatest tools. Through massage, we can evaluate the health and symmetry of a dog’s,...
Lessons Learnt From Lives Lost
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...
Pathology of the Suspensory Apparatus: A Vet Rehab Therapist’s Guide
The suspensory apparatus is one of the most important support structures in the horse’s limb, and yet it’s also one of the most commonly injured....
Veterinary Orthotics and Prosthetics: Not a Simple Mould
Dr Patrice Mich from Canine Rehabilitation Institute presented a series of webinars focused on veterinary orthotics and prosthetics (V-OP) to the...