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27/11/2025

27/11/2025

Some good info around fascia and how it affects your dogs and how massage can help ❤️🐾🐾

Why Fascia is important in Pain Management

A really great article in Veterinary Practice News.

The article emphasises that fascia, long overlooked in conventional (“allopathic”) medicine plays a critical role in pain assessment and treatment. As scientific understanding evolves, fascia is now recognised as a dynamic, innervated, and communicative tissue network rather than a passive wrapping.

Dr. Narda G. Robinson argues that clinicians treating pain must understand:

🟢 What fascia is: a continuous, responsive connective-tissue system that influences movement, posture, proprioception, and nociception.

🟢 Why it matters: fascial dysfunction such as stiffness, adhesions, densification, or altered gliding can contribute significantly to chronic and acute pain.

🟢 How it affects treatment: addressing fasciopathy requires approaches that restore tissue mobility, hydration, and sensory balance, rather than focusing solely on muscles, joints, or nerves.

As fascia becomes increasingly acknowledged within mainstream medical practice, integrating fascial assessment and therapy into pain management is essential for more complete and effective patient care.

Reference
Robinson, N. G. (2025). To Fix Pain Don’t Forget the Fascia Vet.Prac.News.

https://www.veterinarypracticenews.com

26/11/2025

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25/11/2025

Sorry been rubbish with my photos recently 😳 here are a couple of photos of recent clinical canine massages helping with mobility ❤️🐾🐾 drop me a message if you want more information about clinical canine massages or the 121 training I offer ❤️🐾🐾 07968 882088

21/11/2025

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Join me over the next couple of days for my mini serious on winter care for senior dogs, where I will talk about things to watch out for and steps you can take to help them through this challenging time of year.☃️

Winter hits us all hard and it can be especially tough for the dogs in their golden years. First thing to note is a dog’s breed and size influences the age at which they are classed as senior:
❄️Small: 8-12 years old
❄️Medium: 7-10 years old
❄️Large: 6-8 years old
❄️Giant: 5-6 years old
Maybe your dog is classed as senior and you have only@just realised reading this post!

As it gets cold and wet watch out for these more subtle indicators of pain and discomfort:
❄️Reluctance to go on walks/ hiding
❄️Keeping to themselves
❄️’getting old’ or slowing down
❄️Less willing to be touched
❄️Difficulty getting in/out the car or on/off sofa
❄️Getting ‘grumpy’/reactive/barking more

This is their way of letting their guardians know they need assistance, they are communicating they are in pain/discomfort. Do not ignore them!

Give this post a like if you have noticed any of these signs in your dog or someone else’s dog. 👵🏼👴🏻

21/11/2025

Great information about your dogs gait and posture ❤️🐾🐾

🎥 Missed the Live Webinar? Catch Up Now!

As part of Canine Muscular Health Awareness Month, we were joined on Saturday 1st November by Dr. Tracy Carter from PrehabVet for a fascinating live webinar on understanding canine posture and gait 🐾

This insightful webinar explored how to recognise subtle changes in your dog’s day to day posture and movement - helping us detect early signs of weakness or imbalance and take steps to improve muscular health and overall wellbeing.

If you didn’t catch it live, don’t worry - you can now listen to the full recording here:
🔗 https://www.prehabvet.com/c/freeresources/spotdifferences
This will be available for 1 month only until 20th December 2025.

Whether you’re a canine professional or an owner passionate about your dog’s health, this is one not to miss!

Finally, thank you Tracy for giving up your time and for the incredible talk.
You can find out more about Tracy and her services at;
Prehabvet
🌎 www.prehabvet.com