10/11/2026
💜🎉Celebrating 🎉💜
🙌The Intelligence in Our Hands 🙌
🫸Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored some of the remarkable sensory receptors that help therapists feel, respond & continually refine the way we use our hands 🫶
🧐These receptors do not work alone 😉
🧠Sensory information travels towards the brain, where it is combined with experience, attention, movement & observation 👀
🙋♀️What we sometimes call “muscle memory” is really sensorimotor learning 😉
🐕Through practice, the therapist’s nervous system becomes increasingly skilled at regulating pressure, recognising patterns & connecting what is felt beneath the hands with what is observed in the individual patient 🐎
🙌A therapist’s hands may notice changes in temperature, texture, movement & tissue response, but skilled practice is never based upon touch alone 😉
🐾We also listen to breathing, posture, movement, facial expression, behaviour & the animal’s willingness to remain in contact 🐴
♾️The animal’s nervous system is part of this conversation too…..
🙌Every touch provides sensory information, which is interpreted alongside the animal’s physical health, environment, emotional state & previous experiences 😉
🥰This is why positive, respectful & consent-led touch matters 😉
🙌Good therapeutic touch is not simply about performing techniques 🙃
📚It is the result of knowledge, repetition, curiosity, sensitivity & thousands of hours spent learning how to listen 👂
🙌🥳Today, let’s celebrate therapists & the extraordinary intelligence they continue to develop within their hands 🐎🙌🐕
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