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As part of our ongoing professional development we had a great afternoon on Saturday working with Horses.  The Animal Physio Group (APG) is a subgroup of our association the APA (Australian Physiotherapy association).  We aim to meet at least 4 times a year in Qld to gather Physios - animal and human for ongoing learning opportunities.

Sandy organised an afternoon on the sunshine coast with the help of Nicky  to present on the topic of Equine Spinal mobilisation.  These sessions are a great chance for us to learn and network and further enhance our skills.  I look forward to more throughout the year.

Thanks!

I have just completed another fantastic week of learning. Over the last year I have been working through my Advanced Diploma of equine acupuncture.  I love combining eastern and western techniques into my treatments.

Eastern Medicine is so extremely complicated it seems the more you know the more you know you don't know! I know I won't ever stop learning.

Thanks to Tom for being such a fantastic teacher and allowing me to start the day with Qi Gong to set up for great days of learning and treating the horses. I look forward to more next year.

It has been such an action packed exciting year for me professionally. To be full time Animal Physiotherapist certainly makes me satisfied to be finishing the year with more knowledge to help me be more effective at treating all those beautiful animals

Cheers

I had another fabulous week continuing my Advanced Diploma of Equine acupuncture.  I love learning more and more about traditional chinese medicine.  It is certainly a privilege working with these large beasts and such a great way to spend the week.  We start the day with Tom leading some Tai Chi and Qi Gong.  It is amazing how any animal picks up the energy of who is treating them so this is very important to incorporate into our training.  This lovely old horse was a rescue animal who had been ridden for years barrel racing.  Probably the worst neck I have felt in a horse.  She certainly relaxed nicely with treatment and lapped up all the treatment from us all.
Thanks to Tom for another great week of jam packed learning.  I look forward to the next instalment of brain food.  

The more you know the more you know you don't know..... you know!!

I have had the joy of treating Dallas the beautiful 28 yo horse.  She has suffered from laminitis for many years.  We are hoping to improve her comfort and quality of life at present as she is struggling to walk comfortably.  Dallas has responded extremely well to acupuncture and Physiotherapy and I thank Karen for all her efforts every day which is paying off.  She is moving more easily and definitely brighter in herself.  I hope she continues to improve over the next few weeks as we facilitate the healing process for her.

I have embarked on a very exciting journey this year.  The timing is great and I have decided to do my Advanced Diploma of Equine Acupuncture.  So I have been surrounding myself with this large beast this week for a full prac week and will plod my way through overwhelming amounts of information to add to my bag of tricks
I really have missed this incredible beast and look forward to continuing to find a balance with the East and the West with my animal Treatments.  Fortunately the Horse and Dog are very similar (and human for that matter) so this will cross over to all species.
This was my horse I worked on today (The 'relaxed' was painted on by a boy who was there for equine assisted learning - a behaviour he aspired to having..... hmmm well i think this was working on both of us or vice versa....!)

I look forward to more of this!
Cheers