Startline Veterinary Physiotherapy

15/12/2024

A special dinner celebrating an incredibly successful first 4 months of Startline.
Bring on 2025 ✨✨✨

11/12/2024

SEE BELOW FOR THE FULL REVIEW 🌟

“Kirsten has been seeing Jake regularly for almost 3 years now, since early in 2022. Towards the end of 2022, he injured his iliopsoas, which can be a very tricky injury, especially for a high-energy agility dog. Kirsten’s excellent care saw him through that, and after several months of intensive treatment and rehab, he came back stronger than ever. Under her guidance, we now keep up a regular conditioning program to keep him strong. He continues to see her for regular checks and tune-ups. He absolutely adores her and just melts as soon as treatment starts. She has kept him in great shape for all his exploits, on and off the agility field. My goal is to have a great agility partner, but also to ensure his comfort even when he retires one day, and Kirsten is supporting us in that goal. She is knowledgeable, professional, patient and kind. Most importantly, as a competing agility handler herself, she knows and understands the needs of her dog sports dogs and humans!

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21/11/2024

Kirsten officially finished her RPL exams for this year!

We wanted to extend a big THANK YOU to our clients who have been incredibly patient and understanding throughout this time.

Let’s end this year with a bang!

It’s never too late to START 💙🧡

18/11/2024

EXERCISES FOR POSTURE CORRECTION ⚡️

Targeted strengthening exercises not only improve joint stability, bone density, general function and reduced risk of injury..
we can also harness exercise for improved BONY ALIGNMENT and POSTURE 💪🏻

Here you can see the difference that targeted Theraband exercises have on the limb’s alignment and posture within the same treatment!

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? 📈
Correct bony alignment and posture ensures symmetrical loading of the joints and reduced soft tissue strain.

Contact The Startline Team for assistance with developing a conditioning program to specifically assist the needs of your animal 🐱🐶🐴

04/11/2024

Two patients came along with a message for Veterinary Physiotherapy day! 🧡 how stunning

04/11/2024

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY PHYSIOTHERAPY DAY 🧡

Startline constitutes a team of professionals registered and regulated by the South African Veterinary Council.

Qualified, regulated and trained to successfully support your pets 🐶🐱🐴

02/11/2024

We are so excited for the launch of our official website! 💙 Thank you to all my clients for being apart of this process. One milestone at a time 🔝

Watch the space for some exciting new additions and announcements coming soon 🌟

See if you can spot your animal amongst the pages! 🐶🐱🐴

Visit the link in our bio! 🔗

https://startlinevetphysio.com/

31/10/2024

Kirsten is currently attending the International Veterinnary Rehabilitation Practitioners Symposium. Continuously learning and growing 💙🔝

21/10/2024

A TOUCH OF VALUE ✨

Startline physiotherapists perform detailed clinical examinations and develop carefully tailored treatment protocols and plans for your animals. ✔️

STARTLINE VALUE lies in the START.

We ensure our comprehensive assessments include thorough subjective history, gait analysis and physical assessment to make sure that no stone is left unturned!

Making sure that we spend more time on specific and effective treatments, that last. ☑️

Your animals can’t speak, let our hands do the talking for them 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

17/10/2024

Good luck to our Startline patients competing at SEC REGIONAL TRIALS this weekend 🌟

Some (not all) pictured below, representing hard working owners! 💪🏻

Wishing you all safe travels and clean runs 👏🏻 🐾

Samantha Dore
Jenny Mitchell
Samantha Sampson
Lizbè Henze

08/10/2024

PHYSIO FOR WORKING CANINES ☑️

At STARTLINE we have the privilege of working with the canine team at 🐾 to ensure that their working dogs are prepared and maintained for the job!

These dogs are produced and trained for narcotics and explosive detection 💥

They are highly driven and will often work through multiple aches and pains to accomplish the task they are given ‼️

This collaboration between working dogs and physiotherapy ensures that:

1️⃣ Minor injuries are detected before they evolve
2️⃣ Hard-working bodies are kept mobile and comfortable
3️⃣ Targeted conditioning exercises are routinely performed to reduce injury risk

We are PROUD to be associated with a team that advocates for animal wellbeing and promotes healthy practices within working conditions 🏆

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04/10/2024

We could not be any more proud of this duo! Melanie De Klerk and Sinna 2nd in the WORLD today! ❤️🇿🇦🌍🥈

Congratulations to Melanie de Klerk and Sinna on their amazing round in the Team Large Agility round. Sadly no silver medals coming home as this was a Team round but Melanie has certainly earned herself major bragging rights.

29/09/2024

Samantha Dore and Roman had a killer weekend at Free State Regional Trials.
We are so proud of this boy! 💙