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It’s been two months since the annual Australian Veterinary Conference in Brisbane was held. The conference was a good time to touch base with the latest ideas and research. On the one hand was a lecture on the possible association of feed raw chicken with polyradiculoneuritis (coonhound paralysis) and across…
What a fantastic start to my week in Brisbane atttending the annual Australian Veterinary Conference. My Saturday was spent presenting a rehabilitation workshop including acupuncture and animal biomechanical medicine to a group of veterinarians and veterinary nurses. The problems ranged from cruciate disease in a beautiful 16 year old Maltese…
Nope, this isn’t about one of my furry patients but about me! I don’t think I’m old but that’s the opinion of my young adult offsprings. Anyway my difficult run of cancer patients seems to have slowed down for now and I learnt something ‘way cool’ recently. I was teaching…
The last 12 months has seen me explore the world of canine rehabilitation in a bit more detail. Three workshops with the American based Canine Rehabilitation Institute and an internship later, I am now officially a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist (CCRT). Here are the chickens trying out my brand new cavalettis….
It has been a crazy two weeks with travel to Brisbane and Newcastle to attend three workshops. The upside is that my toolbox has just ballooned in size. Brisbane and the completion of the final workshop of the Certification as a Canine Rehabilitation Therapist has set me up with a…
October has been unusually cool, wet and windy. We’ve only had a few warm days. Once the mercury starts to climb, it will truly be hay fever season and itchy dog season. One useful and easy tip that I always recommend to my clients is to give your dog a…
Last night while helping some venturer scouts set up camp in my capacity as their unit leader, it occurred to me that tensioning guy ropes for tents was a bit like tweaking the biomechanics of a quadruped with acupuncture, more specifically a balancing technique made popular by the late…
Having written ‘Blog’ on my hand, The pressure was on to write one tonight before I forgot, yet again. At the end of a 10 hour day, my brain was not at it’s sharpest and the only thing that came to mind was that the last two dogs for the…
here are a couple of dogs trialing Rocktape Weimeraner with Wobblers. He definitely walked better with Rocktape stuck on. Post surgery for disc rupture, hopefully this will reduce the dragging of the hind feet.
Just found out about Rocktape. I can’t wait to try it on my doggy patients. It has been used on people for awhile now and is entering the horse world. I can think of quite a few ways I can use this in dog rehabilitation. This is me in a…