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Veterinary physiotherapy for all small and large animals, specialising in dogs and horses.
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03/09/2024

A very busy day in a very busy week in a very busy month and my second client brings me a coffee from Costa! I do have just the BEST clients 😍🥰👌😘

27/08/2024

Learn Canine Rehab and Exercise Prescription with Katie Lawrence and Julie Platt.

📍18th-19th September in Oxford

This two day course will be loads of fun and you will get lots of hands on practise.

Learn:

⭐️ Principles of Exercise Prescription

⭐️ Rehab Exercises and Software

⭐️ Exercise Protocols

⭐️ Programme Development

⭐️ Rehab for amputees

⭐️ Rehab for ortho and neuro conditions

⭐️ Lots more!

Early Bird Discount is about to close!

DM the word ‘dog’ for more info 💕

24/08/2024

It's so nice when a regular clients who has been bringing her dogs for maintenance treatment for several years comes for her appointment and brings you flowers just to cheer up your day, it's so nice to feel so appreciated, thank you T 🫶😘

13/08/2024

Yesterday the Our dogs photographer caught us in a quiet corner giving gorgeous boy Wolfie some pre show ring treatment at Bournemouth Champ show 😊😂

I absolutely love providing performance enhancement treatment for show dogs, working sled dogs, agility dogs, working gun dogs. I have to say the 'fine tuning' nature of this kind of work I really enjoy. And the hug afterwards when he won his Limit dog class. It does give me so much joy to know I have helped a dog and owner team achieve their goal. Well done Dawn and Wolfie 👌🥰

10/07/2024

🐾🐾 Dog Show friends 🐾🐾

Malvern.

We will be camping at Malvern from today so can provide treatments on the camp site or as usual during dog judging on Saturday or after judging Saturday. I should also have time before and after b! ch judging on Sunday as we are camping Sunday night so no need to rush off 😊

As usual dog show discounted price of £30 per dog.

Safe travels all, looking forwards to seeing you soon 🐾

06/07/2024

🐾 Dog show friends 🐾

Boston Champ show

Anyone wanting dogs treated please remind me early, I have four girls entered but can treat dogs during dog judging or are camping this afternoon.

Usual show dog discount of £30

Looking forwards to seeing everyone, safe journeys 😊

28/06/2024

⭐️ Exciting news ⭐️ Katie is holding some in person workshops including a canine one that I will be joining her to deliver in September 😊👌👏

20/06/2024

Dog show friends - Blackpool Champ show. 🐾

For those that have asked me for physio treatments please remember to remind me early in the day as I am not showing boys but have four girls entered so once B judging starts I won't have any time and then we head home straight after and I hate to have to disappoint anyone but it's a bit of a drive to a late ferry!

Many thanks and looking forwards to seeing everyone 😊🐾

19/06/2024

Best feedback from a lovely client on their second visit today 'we are so happy, we have our dog back' 👌🥰🐾

14/06/2024

The face of a lion and his brother who have absolutely no intention of demonstrating their rehab exercises to me this morning! 😂🥰🥰 Sometimes there's just no persuading them as hard as the fab carers at The Wildheart Trust try to persuade them 😂

Thankfully Zoppa tiger, Suarez lemur and Angus goat were all extremely compliant today and are all maintaining very well on their various physiotherapy regimes 👌😍

So far I have spent the rest of my day on admin including receiving lots of new vet referrals and booking in new physiotherapy and hydrotherapy cases, finishing up and sending all my weekly clinic case reports to owners and vets, booking my ferries to examine some resit exams next month, paying for my AHPR membership and most exciting of all ... starting work on an outline course plan for our next trip to Poland teaching for the fabulous RehabVet - Szkoła terapii manualnej i rehabilitacji psów, I cannot wait to see our Polish friends again in October 👌👏🫶

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13/06/2024

When you haven't been sleeping well because your muscles are tense and uncomfortable and then the physio puts you right .... immediate relief! 😴😴🩵🥰

23/05/2024

Well this is a huge compliment coming from my all time vet physio hero who started us all on our vet physio journeys, this makes me very happy indeed! 😊 😊😊

Three hard hard weeks of examining vet physio degree students as well as travelling to Poland to teach rehab and trying to fit in as many client clinic days in the meantime has been tough!

Apologies to family, friends, my dogs, colleagues, clients and referring vets who I just haven't had as much time for as I usually would, there just haven't been enough hours in this months days! Hopefully I will be back on track soon although I could really do with at least half a day off TBH! 🙈

Biggest of thanks to Lee for holding the fort, looking after my precious doggos and looking after me during the brief times I've been home (mostly sleeping! 😴🤣)

Annnddd breathe! 🥰

Two days of equine and canine physiotherapy exams done 👏

I am really impressed with the standard of veterinary physiotherapy students at Plumpton College.

Well done to the team for your effective teaching strategies and being so diligent with regards to demonstrable competency. It shows 👏 👏 👏

Julie Platt Lisa Bartley Lindsay Perkins

16/05/2024

About to board the plane to Warsaw ready to deliver a three day exercise rehab workshop to some lovely vets and vet physios! 😊👏

13/05/2024

Eeeeek what a week! An early start and off to Plumpton for our second week of vet physio examining today and tomorrow then a day in clinic trying to fit as many clients in as possible then off for an early ferry Thursday morning to Heathrow for our flights to Poland for three days of delivering an exercise rehab workshop, flying home next Monday! More examining next Wed and Thursday and then no doubt a weekend of catching up with admin and spending time with my doggos. It's going to be at least three 7 day working weeks, think I need a holiday!

Huge thanks to Lee for holding the fort while I'm working away so much this month ❤️

02/05/2024

So proud of our special boy Sparky. Sparky is a huge part of the reason I am a vet physio!

11.5 years ago he suffered an injury which went undiagnosed and became chronic, it was fairly subtle and all practitioners I took him to ... vets, physio's, chiros couldn't find the problem but I knew he was not right! Eventually a fantastic physiotherapist, now sadly retired, diagnosed an iliopsoas strain and we set about the long process of rehabbing him. From that day I knew I needed to learn this magic.

And so I bust a gut, for over three years, studying at night and most weekends, travelling for attended weeks and exams, practicing, practicing, learning everything I could, it was hard, very hard working at the same time, running two businesses but in other ways I loved every minute. And now I spend my work days treating people's much loved furry family, helping to improve their quality of life and also teaching new generations of vet physio's 😊

And this boy ⬇️ this fantastic boy of ours who loves to be called Sparklestars and lives for cuddles and running in harness is now 12.5 years old and this was him strutting his stuff round the ring at the Siberian Husky Club of GB championship show a few weeks ago where he won his class. He lives with a chronic injury, he has regular physio treatment, he has lived a life of me practicing what I preach to my clients, we keep him lean, strong, fit, active, we manage his exercise, diet, home environment. We do ALL the things owners often tell me they find hard for our boy, for all our dogs. We prove it is all doable with time and commitment and just look at him 🥰😍🥰😍 it's so worth it! He won a sled dog race in March at 12 years 5 months.

So I don't just sit in my room giving out unmanageable advice, I support owners with not only science based effective treatment and rehab advice, I KNOW what will work. I love my job! 😊

02/05/2024

Busy busy month for us which started with a practice day of final physiotherapy exams for my level six degree students. I was so pleased to hear the students found our day so helpful, we definitely covered lots of ground as well as finding time to cuddle dogs while we discussed techniques 😍

Huge thanks to my clients who brought practice dogs in for us, and for the biscuits and cakes, much appreciated and enjoyed 😋

Someone asked me the other day how I fit it all in and in all honesty, this month I'm not entirely sure! 🙈 I am away examining students for part of the next three consecutive weeks and in between this I have a trip to Poland to help to deliver a three day rehab workshop. I have some full clinic days fully booked and currently no space until early June but Emily is holding the fort and has some availability.

Thank you so much to all my clients for your understanding during this extremely busy time. All I can say is I always learn from teaching so it means I can bring even more knowledge to help all your lovely doggos to the best of my abilities 💜👌💖

24/04/2024

When you are 16 years old and have been coming for 6 years every month for your conservative management treatment for bilateral cruciate ligament problems, you still enjoy your walks and play and do a bouncy little trot into the physio room but then lie yourself on the treatment mattress and make it clear the physio should just get on with your massage! ❤️🥰😍 Oh Honey you are such a character 😍🥰

19/04/2024

So excited for this trip, being asked to accompany my all time vet physio hero, who taught me so much, believed in me enough to start me on my vet physio journey and is such a lovely person to spend time with. I know we will have so much fun and I also know I will learn a lot while teaching (I always do) 😁👌🥰

We are on our way to Poland!! ✈️

Katie is delighted to have been asked to run a 3 day workshop in Poland for Veterinary Physiotherapists in association with RehabVet - Szkoła terapii manualnej i rehabilitacji psów

Even more delighted to be accompanied by the wonderful Julie Platt from The Vet Physio 💕

Should be a fun few days teaching Canine Rehabilitation and Exercise Therapy!

10/03/2024

Three of my third year veterinary physiotherapy degree students from Plumpton College worked really hard providing pre ring warm up treatment for the Siberian Husky exhibitors at Crufts yesterday. They said all our Siberian owning friends/ fellow competitors were lovely, if a little crazy, they thought we were nuts having 9 Sibes .... now they think we are semi normal! 😆🤣

Megan, Star and Sophie said it was really interesting and informative for them to be able to go over so many dogs of the same breed in one morning and many of the owners commented how beneficial the treatments were for their dogs so it was great to be able to organise this for all involved 😊 Certainly our Maddison benefitted from her treatment subsequently coming first in her class, thank you ladies 👌😍

09/03/2024

My lovely students are set up near the Siberian benches and working hard. For anyone who booked in for warm up massages please pop over when you see one free, to save me chasing round looking for people! 😉😊

28/02/2024

I've said it before and I'll no doubt say it again, I love this little dog ❤️ She had such an absolutely heartbreakingly horrific time before being rescued that when she first came to me for treatment she was extremely guarded and painful and would understandably bite to try to protect herself from harm and discomfort. Now, years later, it melts my heart that she wags a little hello at the start of each session and completely trusts me to thoroughly treat her for her compensatory problems caused by only having three legs.

I'm extremely lucky that Winnie's lovely owner chose me to bring her to for therapy, she makes my day/week/month just to be in her company 🥰❤️😍

24/02/2024

🐾🐾 Free crufts pre ring warm up sessions on Saturday 🐾🐾

🌟🌟 Updated post 🌟🌟

I am planning to set my lovely students up in a quieter area near the Sibe benches, all being well they will be available between 9.30am and 12 noon. If you can't see them please just find myself or Lee and we can direct you but please liase with the students as to when they will be available for their next dogs to treat and go along as and when one of them is free. Looking forwards to seeing everyone 😊😊

We can offer, again this year, free pre ring warm up massage to include musculoskeletal assessment with my third year veterinary physiotherapy students, these students are already fully qualified in canine massage and are about to complete their vet physio degree. They will be available around the Siberian Husky rings between 9.30am and 12 noon. Please let me know if you would like your dog(s) added to the list. ☺️

23/02/2024

We had a fun and informative evening hosted by the young farmer's club yesterday where Abi of A M Chiropractic and our own Emily demonstrated and explained the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach to finding the very best therapy to keep your horse in top physical condition. It was really lovely to get together with another very well respected Island practitioner to learn how both physiotherapy and Chiropractic treatments can work so well alongside each other. Team work makes the dream work 😉😁

Huge thanks to Paige and Kingsley for organising the evening and bringing along our two very lovely four legged helpers 💙💙

08/02/2024

🐎 🐎Exciting news! 🐎🐎

For all our Island horse owning clients.

Emily will be setting aside regular days for equine treatments Island wide. As spring approaches make sure your horses are in the best possible musculoskeletal condition. For cases where injury, illness or pathology is present we will need vet consent but for all maintenance and performance enhancement treatments this is not necessary.

Regular equine days beginning 22nd Feb. Email to book and please share so everyone can benefit 😊 👌👏

31/01/2024

I love all these photos of some of our dogs competing at the Siberian Husky Club of GB 40th Anniversary Aviemore sled dog race in the Scottish Highlands last week, huge thanks to all the fantastic photographers! 🫶

Sorry if you have been unable to get hold of us while I've been away competing, working providing sled dog treatments (38 I think 🤔😬) and enjoying a few days holiday with Lee and our amazing doggos 🩵💜

My own dogs also had physiotherapy treatment while we were away which is a big part of how they manage to stay as fit and active as they do, this team ran between 1.7 and 3.2 miles almost every day we were away, pulling a load and loving every single moment. We finished 5th overall of two days competition against quite a few 4 dog teams, I am SO proud of this team! 🩵💜🩵 What many people might find surprising is that the youngest member is 7 years old and the oldest (canine) member is 12 years and 3 months old! Can you tell who is oldest?

My oldest dog yet to compete in sled dog races was 15 years old and still loving it, our amazing Rosie who lived to 16.5 years old and this is how I know that keeping dogs fit, active and the right weight can lead to full lives into double figures easily and this is what I love helping all owners to achieve 😊🐾

25/01/2024

🐾🐾 Feshiebridge physio clinic 😉😊🐾🐾

For those still wanting physio assessment and treatment today, we have just nipped off for breakfast and will be back at Feshiebridge around 11am or just after and will be there until 2pm ish so come and find me, will need dogs to be dry though please for treatment 😊🤲🐾

See you later 😊😊😊

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So proud of our special boy Sparky. Sparky is a huge part of the reason I am a vet physio! 11.5 years ago he suffered an injury which went undiagnosed and became chronic, it was fairly subtle and all practitioners I took him to ... vets, physio's, chiros couldn't find the problem but I knew he was not right! Eventually a fantastic physiotherapist, now sadly retired, diagnosed an iliopsoas strain and we set about the long process of rehabbing him. From that day I knew I needed to learn this magic. And so I bust a gut, for over three years, studying at night and most weekends, travelling for attended weeks and exams, practicing, practicing, learning everything I could, it was hard, very hard working at the same time, running two businesses but in other ways I loved every minute. And now I spend my work days treating people's much loved furry family, helping to improve their quality of life and also teaching new generations of vet physio's 😊 And this boy ⬇️ this fantastic boy of ours who loves to be called Sparklestars and lives for cuddles and running in harness is now 12.5 years old and this was him strutting his stuff round the ring at the Siberian Husky Club of GB championship show a few weeks ago where he won his class. He lives with a chronic injury, he has regular physio treatment, he has lived a life of me practicing what I preach to my clients, we keep him lean, strong, fit, active, we manage his exercise, diet, home environment. We do ALL the things owners often tell me they find hard for our boy, for all our dogs. We prove it is all doable with time and commitment and just look at him 🥰😍🥰😍 it's so worth it! He won a sled dog race in March at 12 years 5 months. So I don't just sit in my room giving out unmanageable advice, I support owners with not only science based effective treatment and rehab advice, I KNOW what will work. I love my job! 😊

Emily and I would like to wish all our very valued clients a Merry Christmas and a very Happy and healthy New Year xx

Vigo with a slightly different style due to having less hind limb strength. What a very good boy he is though 💙🥰🦁

Just a big lion boy doing his down to stand strengthening exercises! 💙🦁😍 Kumba and Vigo are now regularly doing three types of hind limb strengthening prescribed exercise including these down to stand exercises. How good are they??!! 🥰 And how hard have the amazing big cat carers worked to teach these exercises! And best of all we are seeing improvements in Kumba's hind limb strength and muscle bulk. Vigo tends to be less enthusiastic and is not improving so well yet but we will keep working on this. These boys are putting some of my canine clients to shame with their dedication to rehab exercises! This was Kumba, I will post a video of Vigo as it is interesting to compare the more controlled movement in the stronger of the pair. 🦁🦁 #thevetphysio #lionrehab #bestjobintheworld

Such a special moment when Zoppa felt confident enough to settle down nearby even after the food had run out. Understandably it's taken her a while to get used to a stranger getting close enough to massage her! What a fantastic girl she is and all testament to the hard work her carers have put in preparing her for treatment and the lengths everyone is going to to provide the very best care for all the rescued animals here 🧡🖤🧡🖤 Thanks to Emily for the video 🥰

And again, so well deserved... the RAU academic achievement award goes to Izzy 👏❤️

So well deserved, the outstanding Veterinary Physiotherapy student of the year Lauren 👏 👌💜

For any of our students who might want it or any one who couldn't be there ....

Just a lion doing his physio exercises 💙

🐾 Improving strength and flexibility for our canines 🐾 Planking for core strength 3 Here we are at last, sorry! Final more challenging piece of equipment I use for planking the fit bones by fit paws. Quite expensive equipment but so worth it to achieve seriously good core strength. To progress the challenge further we can also begin weight shifting during the 30 second stands on the equipment per rep. Initially move back to less challenging equipment but while planking perform your neck stretches 😉 this will cause your dog to shift their weight. You can also gently push either side of your dogs upper hind legs to the side to create a slight imbalance or on wobble cushions and fit bones carefully press down on the equipment to cause weight shifting. Progress gradually back up through your planking equipment difficulty while weight shifting. 😁🐾

🐾 Improving strength and flexibility for our canines🐾 Core strength - planking, stage 2 Here we go, the next stage of planking for core strengthening uses less stable surfaces to increase the challenge. Your dog MUST work up to this stage gradually. You can begin to progress the challenge by using one solid and one less stable surface such as a balance pad or wobble cushion, some dogs will be able to progress much more than others depending on age and ability so please be careful not to over face your dog. This was Sparky's second ever time of planking so although I progressed him quickly after a few days he has improved well as his core is relatively strong but please be aware improving core strength takes time so don't rush to progress, I am just making progression info available for when/if your dog is ready. If you are unsure please contact me for advice. Large wobble cushions for dogs can be purchased from fit paws, the much cheaper smaller cushions are human wobble cushions and can be ordered from various places on line costing around £8 to £12 usually. As ever any questions, queries or concerns just ask 😁👍🐾

🐾🐾 Improving strength and flexibility in our canines 🐾🐾 Three and two legged stands First stage of core strengthening exercises 😁 Good core strength can help your dog cope with many other physical difficulties and imbalances and really improve performance in working and sporting dogs. Here's the first step in the series of exercises to improve core strength 💪 Any questions ask away 😁

So following on from my post yesterday of 14 1/2 year old Howley, here we have 15 year old Rosie and Kenai who is two months off 16 years old. This is a way into our regular morning walk and Kenai is starting to tire a little but he is still managing the distance well enjoying himself and remaining active. Rosie is still so fit and active despite suffering a vestibular attack two years ago, that she has to wear a harness for walks to stop her pulling so hard on her collar she collapses! These dogs remind me daily that regular, appropriate exercise, physiotherapy treatment and good diet and care can result in happy old dogs 💜💙

Here is a little video proving I practice what I preach when I tell my clients with elderly dogs we must use it or lose it! Little and often regular and appropriate exercise is soooooo important! This is 14 1/2 year old Howley on one of his daily walks, he walks on grass (and mud at the mo 😱) as he has neurological deficit resulting in some toe dragging when he gets a bit tired but due to keeping his muscles regularly exercised he remains strong enough to really enjoy his walks and so far deterioration has been slow and he has good quality of life still 💙

Bobby's concentrating face! When you have legs this long it's hard work having to think about where to put them 😁💖. Too warm to run sled dogs today it turned out so having a little try of the treadmill to start a bit of fitness training getting ready for racing season.

'Had my lovely massage, did some nice stretches, feeling all relaxed and not minding having phototherapy and Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field Therapy to help with my muscle spasms and stiff joints' Beautiful Pepper thoroughly enjoying her physio session, such a good girl 💖

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Veterinary Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation

Having worked for many years as a veterinary nurse and then for the last 14 years running our canine hydrotherapy centre and small boarding kennels alongside looking after, training and competing with our Siberian Huskies in sled dog races and championship level dog showing for 20+ years I have always had a huge interest in keeping dogs fit, healthy and happy and when I discovered a veterinary physiotherapy diploma course which would accept me due the amount of practical knowledge I possessed I wanted to achieve this so badly I threw caution (and a lot of money) to the wind and despite thirty years since doing any formal learning decided failure was not an option! It has been a dream of mine for many years but following an injury to one of my own young dogs which resulted in my travelling up and down the country for physiotherapy appointments in an effort to fix him I decided the Isle of Wight’s dogs and dog owners deserved better and so I set about learning how to achieve this for them. I have just completed my level 6 diploma in professional veterinary physiotherapy and rehabilitation with Justo Development and have just begun the level 6 diploma in professional equine physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Once I have achieved this I plan to continue on to top up to the Level 7 degree in veterinary physiotherapy as I want to learn everything I possibly can about how to help mans best friends.

I am extremely lucky to have an amazing team supporting and working alongside me including my partner Lee who runs our own canine hydrotherapy centre ‘Doggy Paddles’ with our other fantastic part time hydrotherapists and my son Rohan who is currently finishing his A level exams but helps out in our boarding kennels alongside our fantastic kennel staff at our small luxury boarding kennels ‘Canine Country Retreat. I work closely with ‘The animal chiro’ Phil Milner who holds canine chiropractic clinics at our centre and am lucky to have the support and friendship of many of the Islands vets, vet nurses, chiropractors, behaviorists, trainers, groomers and many other dog professionals. I strongly believe the very best way to help any dog who is recovering from injury, illness or operation or coping with hereditary problems, degenerative problems or old age weaknesses is for everyone to work together to find the best solution for each individual.

I can provide physiotherapy in the forms of massage, stretching and joint mobilization, electro physical agents and remedial exercise and rehabilitation plans. Electro physical agents include Pulsed Magnetic Field Therapy, Phototherapy/Cold Laser, Therapeutic ultrasound and Neuro Muscular Electro Stimulation. Although these all sound a bit scary they are actually painless ways of introducing energy into tissues and cells to promote and even re start healing which often will not occur without them. This is why we have spent a considerable amount of money making sure we can provide these very valuable agents for your dogs as we believe the Islands dogs deserve to have this kind of treatment easily available to them.

Veterinary permission is necessary by law in order for a physiotherapist to provide treatment to animals so if you think physio could help your dog ask your vet provide a referral. I have referral forms to make this easier or alternatively your vet can just email me at [email protected] stating they are happy for me ‘Julie Platt’ to provide physiotherapy for your dog (please include dogs name).