20/04/2026
👌Performance enhancement treatments 👌
I just love providing performance enhancement treatments for our sporting and working best friends.
A huge amount of our work is supporting dogs with injuries, illness, hereditary problems and old age difficulties but I am also lucky enough to have a lot of patients who's owners seek my help to identify and resolve restrictions in the musculoskeletal system which are not severe but are enough to mildly reduce range of movement in one or more areas of the body reducing performance whether it's an agility dogs reduced speed through weaves, a show dogs reluctance to stand square or be handled by the judge, a gun dogs reluctance to jump into the truck, a sled dogs reduced performance, a police dogs with difficulty getting over garden fences, a support dog reluctant to have his harness on etc etc etc.
Often our sporting and working dogs are under increased scrutiny so these problems are more commonly noticed, these little restrictions and niggles can really show up, all dogs will have niggles and some pet dog owners are fab at noticing them too and we do have pet dogs come for performance/maintenance treatment too.
The thing I love about performance enhancement treatments is the fine tuning aspect of them, I'm a bit of a perfectionist so delicately working with an athletic animal to get it completely balanced, comfortable and at it's absolute best is like heaven to me! 🥰 Also I absolutely love hearing from excited owners about how much better their dogs are performing 👌🐾
Yesterday at the Siberian Husky Club of GB Championship show I treated several show dogs and loved every second of it, I also treated my own four we had entered at the show as walking them the previous afternoon I had identified just the tiniest restrictions in their movement and on palpation had found some slight muscle hypertone in them all. I'm really glad I made myself find the time to treat my own dogs as the results were rosettes for them all and our precious Lacey Lou winning Best in Show! 💜🐾🥰
The most notable thing for me though was I had a restriction myself! I've somehow pulled my right gluteal muscles, no idea how, no big injury or event, just woke up a few days ago and thought my right glute hurts like heck and I'm struggling to walk! I mean really quite struggling and in quite a lot of pain. It just reminds me how those slight restrictions my doggos have might feel to them and might change their everyday life. Of course when I was in the ring and the adrenaline was flowing I powered on through, this morning I could hardly get out of bed for the pain! So I'm determined to spread the word about what a huge difference good maintenance/performance enhancement treatment can make to our four legged friend and to be better at doing regular musculoskeletal assessment on my own dogs. But for now I need to sort my own body out! 🙈😜
