White Oak Clinical Canine Massage

06/01/2025

🐕 ✅️ Routine Nail Maintenance is an essential part in keeping your dogs musculoskeletal system healthy (joints & muscles), & avoiding unnecessary pain.
It is also a free or very low cost way of signicantly supporting your dogs health.

🔴 Long nails negatively impact joint & muscle health, so making sure your dog's nails are regularly maintained is a must for your dogs health & wellbeing. This is especially important if your dog already has mobility problems or joint diseases such as arthritis, dysplasia's, or vertebral issues.

⚠️ If you have never trimmed your dogs nails before, please see an experienced person/ groomer or vet, so you can learn from them before attempting to do it yourself. They should happily guide you in the right direction.

🩺 The bottom two photographs are of dogs with long nails. Notice how the long nails make the dog 'fall back' onto the back of their pads, causing unnatural weight carrying forces that directly impact & overload joints.

Top photos curtesy of Midlands Dog First Aid Training.

03/01/2025

02/01/2025

✨️ This gorgeous lad was a star in his clinical massage therapy today. Morgan trains & competes in agility so has regular massage treatments, which also incorperates gentle stretch techniques & myofascial release, to support optimal muscle & joint health.

Now, it would be fair to say that Morgan approaches agility with a fair amount of gusto & enthusiasm 😅, so regular maintenance massage also helps to prevent sporting injuries, by keeping the muscles & tendons flexible.

Initially a little tentative, Morgan is now really settling into his clinical massage sessions. He blew me away today by how he communicated & pushed into my hands to relieve a couple of trigger points & areas of tightness. A nutured working relationship based on mutual respect & trust 💞. And boy, he is handsome.!!

31/12/2024

Fantastic Local Dog Walk..!!

Buzzards Flying over Whitesheet Hill, near Mere 🦅.

I love this place 💞.

Peaceful, 360° views, surrounded by nature... a bronze age hill fort linking through to Stonehenge.

🤫 And NO MUD..!!

Highly recommend for a fantastic dog walk with miles of footpaths & bridleways.

30/12/2024

💙 Border Collie Day Today.!

These two gorgeous boys came in for their 3rd clinical massage sessions today. Improvements in posture & performance have already been noticed.!!

One of these lads has spinal disc issues so keeping his back muscles and surrounding fascia supple and flexible supports the integrity, movement, & function of the vertebral column.

It really is a pleasure to work with them both, and with their amazing owner who is phenomenal at keeping them in such good health.
It is also a privilege to work alongside Win Clinic near Taunton, liasing & bringing our specialties together for the very best care of these two wonderful clients.

24/12/2024

From my home to yours...Wishing you all and your four-legged family members a very Merry Christmas ✨️.

It's been a very busy year, seeing & treating many dogs. From post op soft tissue rehabilitation, through to our beautiful senior dogs, and our wonderful performance dogs, it's been a pleasure to meet you all, and I can't thank you enough for your support. We've had a fantastic & successful year.!!

And to my paraprofessional colleagues who work in clinical canine massage & musculoskeletal rehabilitation, have a wonderful Christmas break. So much goes on behind the scenes between us to give the best for our clients. You guys are awesome 💖.

11/12/2024

🌳Relaxing break in the Forest for a few days.
Love moments like this to focus on my dogs needs. The perfect time to reset & recharge for both of us. A much needed early morning massage & stretch to release some tight muscles for my boy Zeus after some long woodland walks, and what a perfect setting to do it in ❤️.

06/12/2024

🌟 Beautiful Red came in for his first massage appointment yesterday and right away he made himself at home. The bond & trust between him and his guardian, Trudi from Maximus, was wonderful to witness and be a part of.

This was Red's first ever massage treatment, not that you would have known. He came in, led down, and even slept whilst I worked through fascial releases. This boy is so very special ❤️.

Trudi is a canine & human body conditioning coach. Working with both dog and owner, she will help tone and strengthen you both, whether that's to enhance interconnecting performance in sport between the two of you, or making the most out of your daily walks together.

02/12/2024

💚❤️ Fantastic day yesterday at Santa Paws Grotto.!
So many wonderful dogs and their guardians.

28/11/2024

💬 A question I get asked a lot is "what can I do to help my dog?". One of my absolute staples is 'weight management '. And it's free..😃.

🔑 Regardless of whether your dog has an issue or not, keeping your dog at a correct weight is one key way in improving quality of life, promoting longevity, and staving off ongoing healthcare bills.!!

✅️ In terms of musculoskeletal health, correct weight significantly reduces stress placed on joints.

🫣 Unfortunately, the heavier we are, the more weight/pressure is placed on our joints - joints work harder and are subjected more quickly to wear & tear - joint inflammation arises bringing in diseases of the joint - local muscles work harder to support the joint, leaving them open to injury - joint enters chronic cycle of inflammation, degradation, & pain - joint function is compromised thus leaving other joints/muscles to overcompensate in movement & load - the cycle continues systemically.

🐾 This one simple step can signicantly reduce the above 👆, & bring about such a positive change in the life of our dogs ❤️.

25/11/2024

I am so happy to be sponsoring & attending Santa Paws Grotto and Christmas Market in Poole this Sunday (1st December), offering free muscular health checks to all canine Santa Paws attendees, in aid of Merlin's Pet Food Banks CIC. If you're free, we'd love you to join us 💖.

This wonderful community initiative now has 12 pet food donation points across Dorset, supporting pets to stay with their owners & families rather than be surrendered to rescues/kennels because of unstable financial situations that some owners may be experiencing in the present financial climate.

As animal rescues in general are overwhelmed with the current number of animals being surrendered & desperate for rehoming, any way to keep our beautiful pets in their own homes with loving owners who have just had the misfortune of falling on hard times, must be worthwhile for the sake of both pet & owner wellbeing and happiness 💞.

21/11/2024

💝Happy Dogs - Happy Owners.
Makes me so happy to read wonderful comments such as these in a facebook group. Our dogs are a precious & intergral part of our lives. When they feel better, we feel better 🐾🐾

17/11/2024

Absolutely Over the Moon with my new embroidered work wear ❤️

I can't recommend Ceeflair in Wincanton highly enough for their quality, efficiency, speed, & professionalism. Nothing was too much trouble.

They even let me try on their stock clothing first to see what felt most comfortable, and what sizes worked best for me (which can be a minefield when buying online).

Highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

14/11/2024

As the weather cools down, joint and muscle aches often worsen. If your dog seems to be slowing down or struggling, there is a way to help. Schedule a massage with one of our therapists and experience results in as few as 1–3 sessions. Using advanced clinical massage and the only clinically trialed canine massage technique, "The Lenton Method," we see 95% of dogs respond positively within just a few sessions!

Find a therapist near you today: www.k9massageguild.co.uk

10/11/2024

Remembering the fallen comrades who walked into hell together for our freedom ✨️ 11/11/24

05/11/2024

Thank you so much for the review Nicky. Cannot tell you how much it means to know how well client dogs are benefiting from massage therapy & how happy their owners are to see it 🧡

23/10/2024

💘 I would like to introduce you to Webber, a client & neighbour of mine. This boy is an absolute beauty, not just in looks, but in temperament too.

A month ago Webber fractured his elbow joint in a completely random accident whilst out walking. It was a nasty and complicated break that required specialist surgery at his local vet practice.

I began working with Webber and his beautiful owner a couple of weeks after his surgery, with the aim of reducing stress and rehabilitating overcompensatory muscles that were working immensely hard because Webber was using only 'three legs' to move & weightbear. The concern in those initial days was to ease tension, restriction, and pain that these overcompensatory muscles were under. Overcompensatory issues that could go on to significantly impact joints in other areas such as the hips, stifles (knees), and opposite forelimb. It was essential to treat Webbers whole body, not just the affected limb.

5 weeks on and Webber is doing great. A physio is working to restore strength in his foreleg, his mama completes daily exercises with Webber to strengthen & re-sensitise the shoulder, and I see Webber every week to make sure his muscles & fascia are in the best place for comfort and function. A combined approach to get him back to his best ❤️.