The Injury Healed. Did the Nervous System?
There are a variety of ways in which to address changes in the nervous system in response to injury as vet rehab and physiotherapists to achieve rehabilitation.
How Pain Changes the Brain in Veterinary Rehabilitation
As Veterinary Rehabilitation Therapists, chronic pain is something that we manage and work with on a daily basis in our patients. Dogs and horses...
Understanding Pain Mechanisms in Veterinary Rehabilitation
Pain is one of the most common reasons our patients are referred for rehabilitation. Yet, despite being central to everything we do, the language...
Is It Time to Put ‘Rest’ to Bed?
While prolonged rest and immobilisation formed the cornerstone of recovery from injuries and surgical interventions in the past, in recent years we...
Understanding Equine Headshaking
Equine headshaking can be an extremely challenging condition to treat and manage, and in many cases causes significant distress to both the horse...
Stance and Dynamic Evaluation, Objectivity and Assessment in Canine Rehabilitation
The addition of objective measures in the evaluation of stance, posture and gait in the canine patient are essential to effective canine rehabilitation.
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...