We specialise in the rehabilitation of soft tissue and muscular injuries, support dogs with orthopedic conditions i.e arthritis & hip Dysplasia for chronic pain managment, help senior dogs remain more mobile and improve the performance of sporting dogs. It is an effective treatment for soft tissue and muscular rehabilitation, supporting animals with chronic pain management due to orthopedic / neu
rological conditions or in senior age by improving dysfunctional muscles due to overcompensation thereby improving mobility. It is also an effective treatment for maintaining young, active or working dogs to maintain their musculo-skeletal health by keeping their muscle tissue supple and injury free. Soft tissue issues and injuries such as trigger points (knots), myofascial pain, strains, sprains, hypertonicity, scar tissue, tissue adhesions and muscle splinting will all be indentifed and treated accordingly. These treatable conditions can be very painful and debilitating and will reduce the animals performance and general well being. Diseased joints i.e Arthritis / Hip Dysplasia rely on the recruitment of extra muscular support to enable movement and thereby causing overcompensation resulting in referred pain from the primary injury location to secondary areas. Our approach is to evulate the whole animal by utilising advanced palpation skills to assess around 100 muscles along with fascia to identify these issues and locate all areas which may need rehabilitation to benefit their mobility.
My expertise is within muscular injury rehabilitation and chronic pain management, I use non-invasive soft tissue manipulations to relieve pain and discomfort as well as utilising a series of complex direct myofascial releases to address chronic structural imbalances and fascial dysfunction as a result of soft tissue injury or degenerative joint disease. These techniques often achieve profound and long lasting results. After working with the Search and Rescue Dog Assocation (SARDA) for 10 years both as a handler and now as the training officer teaching others, I have been exposed to how debilitating muscular injuries and issues can have on a perfectly healthy dog. This experience was also first hand when my collie experienced a fall during a search, where the soft tissue injury was not originally identified but later transpired as intermittent lameness which I have spent the last 10 years managing along with muscular issues relating to arthritic changes. This experience coupled with my interest in canine anatomy and physiology lead me onto the obvious career move out of academic research into canine rehabilitiation. In 2017 I embarked on Natalie Lenton's Canine massage Practioner Programme where in 2019 completed my skills to a clinical level and became part of the Canine Massage Guild. Coupled with my scientific background as a post-doctoral researcher, experience with working with dogs for over a decade and my clinical skills i provide a very professional service.
