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...
Using Clinical Metrology Instruments in your Veterinary Rehabilitation Practice
On our journey to increase the validity of our profession, as well as our continual striving for improved patient outcomes, the use of clinical...
Deep Digital Flexor Tendon Injury for Vet Rehab Therapists
This reference summarises current practices and teachings on deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT) injury assessment and management as described in...
REST: The Good, the Bad and the Frustrating
In the veterinary profession, it is currently normal practice to prescribe crate rest, stable rest or restricted activity to our patients for...
Superficial Digital Flexor Tendon (SDFT) Injuries: A Practical Reference for Vet Rehab Therapists
This reference summarises current practices and teachings on superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) injury assessment and management as presented...
Stretching or Strengthening for Improving Range of Motion?
One of our common goals in the rehabilitation of a multitude of conditions is to increase range of motion. In this months’ Research Refresh we...
Equine Tendinopathies: Evidence-Based Treatment And Its Limits
In a published review of the literature on equine tendinopathies (2004), Roger Smith highlights just how difficult it is to run and publish...
Goniometry and Passive Range of Motion: The Importance of the Individual
The large variation in body type, conformation and size in our canine patients makes it necessary for us to treat each dog as an individual when...
Flexion Tests in Context: What They Reveal (and What They Don’t) in Equine Lameness
As rehabilitation therapists, assessing movement is a huge part of what we do. Lameness assessment is a part of the evaluation of movement, but it’s...
Palpation: Our Most Reliable Outcome Measure?
In the never-ending search for reliable outcome measures, are we overlooking our most valuable, reliable and repeatable measure – manual palpation?...
Bucked Shins in the Young Racehorse: What Vet Rehab Therapists Need to Know
I don’t love that I’m writing about a condition that affects 2 year old racehorses in training, because I don’t think the conditions for this injury...
Equine Developmental Orthopaedic Diseases for Vet Rehab Therapists
Developmental Orthopaedic Conditions (DODs) are conditions that affect young, growing horses. These conditions can impact the skeletal system,...
Bringing Excellence to Every Patient
When we want to be the best Vetrehabber – the first one others refer to or come to for help, the Vetrehabber who consistently rehabilitates the...
Building your Confidence in Vet Rehab Practice
Writing about confidence is hard. It pushes me out of my comfort zone and into the unknown. I have often wondered, as I am sure many of you have,...
Ringbone, Splints and Windgalls for Vet Rehab Therapists
Ringbone, splints and windgalls are everyday findings in equine rehab practice. Some are benign adaptations; others signal underlying joint or...
Equine Hock Pathologies: Reference for Vet Rehab Therapists
Bog Spavin, Bone Spavin, Capped Hocks, Thoroughpin - Hock “puffs and bumps” are common. Some are benign adaptations; others signal joint or sheath...