Author: animalphysiotherapy

  • Think about fitness and condition when adding pain relief medication to your care plan

    Think about fitness and condition when adding pain relief medication to your care plan. We often think, wow, what a great improvement and we feel so happy to see our loved ones running and playing again, “like they USED to”. ✅️ 60 minutes is the most pain relieving amount of time to walk a dog!…

  • Pain, behaviour and resiliance

    Pain, behaviour and resiliance

    Pain, behaviour and resiliance is the title of my latest CPD. Continual professional development. I had to share these nuggets of thought… You are not born with your set resilience for life. You can change it!There are many factors that influence pain perception. These include genetics and microbiome etc. But also psychosocial. These have many…

  • Welcome Floyd

    Welcome Floyd

    Hello and welcome to Floyd. He is so lovely, but he has such a complex history that he needs a lot of care. I have no problem providing that, and I make sure he feels calm and safe. He was sent to me for rehabilitation of his elbow dyspalsia. We can’t fix this, but we…

  • Welcome to Ella

    Welcome to Ella

    Hello and welcome to Ella. This darling little dog has ruptured her cruciate ligament. This is such a common problem, but it tends to have slightly more prevalence in bigger dogs. Ella’s mum has opted to manage her cruciate rupture conservativly. This means no surgery. We always have a full discussion of the pro’s and…

  • Sunscreen!

    SUNSCREEN Please 🙏 Don’t forget the little white patches of skin that might seem insignificant. Also those shaved patches after they have been operated on. So easy to forget when the sun is so rare here. As a person who burns at the first whiff of spring, please protect the animals too. There are plenty of…

  • Big hugs

    Big hugs

    I know how much everyone loves their babies. So I’m sending a big virtual hug to you all! I know it can be super scary to hear the words pain and fear. We don’t want to think that we could be missing these things. But all the little nuggets if information shared are all to…

  • The relationship between pain, discomfort and fear

    The relationship between pain, discomfort and fear

    I just put this quick video together about the relationship between pain, discomfort and fear. 80%of behavioural problems are likely to be pain related ✅️ Be mindful to recognise fear responses might be suggesting pain ✅️ Maybe we need to add a behaviourist to help reduce the learned fear responses that came as a result…

  • Evidence based veterinary practice, understand the science that little bit more

    Evidence based veterinary practice is really important and a subject I hold close to my heart. Hopefully, this can help you understand it all that little bit more. Please don’t listen to this video with the kids in the room. It’s really important we know to use things that have evidence to back them up…

  • Welcome to Yasu

    Welcome to Yasu

    Hello and welcome to yasu. Her name is Japanese origin and means peace and tranquillity.  Her dad said that does not reflect her personality! I found her to be super calm and sweet and kind. She has had a very busy life and has seen the vets far too many times. She has had a…

  • Acute in chronic pain. Complexity of pain

    Offloading nuggets of thought after another mind blowing CPD. Pain is so complex. Here I discuss acute on chronic pain and just  atiny part of the complexity of pain. ✅️ just because you have 1 disease diagnosed, don’t forget there might be others, so keep your eyes open for other things lurking in the back…