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09/02/2024

Would you like to become a Veterinary Physiotherapist? 🐶🐴

Join the University of Nottingham for our Open Day - 11/02/24
Course: MSc Veterinary Physiotherapy
Location: Nottingham Vet School
Time: 9.30-1pm
See the amazing facilities on offer including stables, new clinical space and have a lecture in our purpose built room🐴🐶
Practice your skills with our hands-on tasks and ask current students about their experiences on the course so far.

24/07/2023

🐕 A new study by the VetCompass team at the RVC has found that dogs with heatstroke may be suffering even further due to outdated first aid practices. The research calls for updated guidance to be promoted more widely for dogs with heatstroke – including cold water immersion and using fans or air conditioning on soaked dogs – to support owners to provide the best possible care.

➡️ Read more: https://rvc.uk.com/hot-dogs-cool-first-transport-second

13/07/2023

13/07/2023

23/06/2023

Overview of the three phases in tendon and ligament healing 💡
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780081004890/biomechanics-of-tendons-and-ligaments

👉 After acute injuries and after surgeries, tendon healing occurs in 3 main phases (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16245649/).

1⃣ There is an initial cellular phase, where the otherwise cell-poor tendon tissue is populated by immigrating erythrocytes and inflammatory cells such as neutrophils, monocytes, and macrophages. An inflammatory cascade is induced where inflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor- α (TNF- α ) are released (https://ssms.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Zeitschrift/60-2012-2/Biolmol_Huegle.pdf).

Moreover, vasoactive factors lead to an increased vascular permeability and initiate angiogenesis. Tenocytes proliferate and migrate to the wound site where they predominantly produce collagen type III (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16245649/).

2⃣ For the following 6 weeks, during the remodelling stage, collagen type III synthesis is predominant and the water and glycosaminoglycans’content of the healing tissue are higher than in healthy tissue (Fig.). Besides monocytes and macrophages occurring immediately after injury, other inflammatory cell types such as lymphocytes come later, during the remodelling stage, and are part of the adaptive immune system, providing the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 and TNF-receptor 2 which neutralizes TNF- α and as such initiate the end of the inflammatory reaction (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21210861/).

3⃣ In the third-phase (modelling stage), cellular density decreases with a change from a cellular tissue to a fibrous tissue; fibers get more aligned during this phase, whereas they were not well oriented before.

Moreover, from around 10 weeks postlaceration, a scar-like tissue is most often the predominant tissue found. Until a tendon or ligament tissue has fully recovered, 1 year may be needed (maturation stage). In this last phase of regeneration, tenocyte metabolism and vascularity decline—nevertheless ending up in a fibrovascular scar tissue that never reaches the characteristics of normal healthy tendon or ligament tissue.

Illustration: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780081004890/biomechanics-of-tendons-and-ligaments

12/03/2023

📣 WEBINAR ALERT! 📣

RECOGNISING HORSES PAIN

Join ACPAT Chartered Physiotherapist Sue Palmer to learn about recognising signs of pain in your horse.

Suitable for horse owners, riders, trainers, coaches: anyone who wants to train their horse with a focus on soundness and wellbeing.

Head to acpat.org/events to book on!

31/07/2022

✨️ pleased to announce ✨️

05/07/2022

We are often asked what is the difference between a regulatory body and a professional association?

RAMP was initiated to provide a regulatory body in the absence of statutory regulation in animal musculoskeletal care, the founders were advised if they were to move forward and update the legislation we would have to start by self regulating the whole industry.
RAMP therefore is a regulatory body albeit voluntary i.e. you don't have to join to practice (similar but not the same as the statutory human regulators, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the General Chiropractic Council (GCC) or the General Osteopathic Council(GOsC)). RAMPs purpose is to protect the public and their animals by producing cross industry standards, ensuring registrants reach and maintain these standards and maintain a competent register of eligible Practitioners to reassure the public best standards are being monitored.
A Professional Association, sets its own standards and has its own specific criteria for membership. It supports the Practitioners and supports CPD. It sets standards for treating animals for their own flavour of Practitioners.
Because animal Professional Associations ( such as ACPAT,IRVAP,NAVP, IAAT, BVCA, MCC, MAA, AAO etc) all represent their specific memberships they are not considered by the authorities as representive of the whole industry, they are not wholly independent or impartial and therefore are not wholly in existence to protect the public, they exist to develop and promote the practice of their members.
Therefore it is essential we have both types of organisation that are completely separate. If Practitioners are not seen to be accountable to a Regulatory Body there is no impartial disciplinary process and therefore there is a danger that people who do not maintain best practice will be allowed to continue to practice.

RAMP is and must stay completely independent of all the Professional Associations if Registrants are to be respected within the wider veterinary healthcare industry. Practitioners who are Registrants of RAMP show the whole industry they can maintain the professional standards set by a Regulatory Body.

26/05/2022

🐩 A new study has revealed a huge demand for designer crossbreed dogs in the UK between 2019 and 2020, believing they are more hypoallergenic, generally healthy, easy to train and good with children, which could be misconceptions based on current evidence. The new study also suggests that this increased demand poses a significant risk to the health and welfare of these designer dogs due to high demand leading to poor breeding and to buyers unintentionally supporting puppy farming and illegal importation of underage puppies.

➡️ Read More: https://rvc.uk.com/designer-dogs-welfare