Top 2 Tail Veterinary Physiotherapy

05/04/2026

Happy Easter 🐣
I hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend with you friends and family 💕

31/01/2026

22/01/2026

15/01/2026

🐾 Exciting RVN Opportunity – Alveley Village Vets 🐾

✨We’re excited to be recruiting an experienced Registered Veterinary Nurse to join Charlie, Caitlin and their team. Alveley Village Vets is a warm, welcoming, independent, family feel practice. We are currently recruiting a full time registered veterinary nurse for a 12-month maternity cover, with the potential for a permanent position thereafter.

What Alveley Village Vets has to offer:
- Independently owned 🏠
- ⁠Full-time role – 37 hours per week 🕐
- 2 in 4 Saturday mornings 📆
- No Bank Holidays or OOHs 🏝️
- Competitive Salary DOE 💰
- Supportive RVN team 👩‍⚕️
- Paid overtime ⏰
- Generous staff discount. 🐾
- Team socials & company events 🥳

✨ You’ll need to be confident in:
✔ Monitoring general anaesthetics
✔ Theatre and surgical nursing
✔ Laboratory work
✔ Schedule 3 acts
✔ Delivering excellent patient and client care
✔️Delivering nurse clinics
✔️ Reception work

📩 To apply, please email your CV to [email protected]

We’d love to hear from you and hopefully welcome you to the Alveley Village Vets family 🐶🐱🐰🐹🐕

14/01/2026

Love this!
Which category does your cob fit into? 🐴

No such thing as 'Just a Cob.'

©️ Emily Cole Illustrations

24/12/2025

Wising all my clients new, old and no longer with us and very merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you for all your support again this year.
Give your furry family members and extra cuddle from me ❤️

30/11/2025

Sniffing on walks is great mental stimulation for dogs. This is particularly useful for dogs that are on restricted exercise or can’t walk very far 🐶

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Walking? No. Sniff-scrolling. Please hold while my Dalmatian checks his notifications.🥰😍

22/10/2025

🚨 Stairs add A LOT of stress to the canine body!!

In this sketch, we can see a large-breed dog descending relatively low, wide steps, and we can clearly see

🔎 The front weight-bearing paw is splayed and flattened, the carpus has dropped, and the thoracic sling is collapsing into a deep “V” at the cervicothoracic junction. All of this shows us just how much force is being transmitted through the limb - and that the limb and thoracic sling isn’t strong enough to support it!

📉 The lumbar spine is kyphotic, the pelvis is flexed and rotated, and the dog is rotating through the spine to achieve the high degrees of limb flexion required for stair descent. These are classic compensation patterns - and they are not what we want to see. Yet, this is how many dogs navigate stairs every single day in their homes.

💡 Research backs this up.
Two key studies demonstrate how stair navigation dramatically changes musculoskeletal demands compared with ramps or slopes:

👉Carr et al., 2013, Exercises in canine physical rehabilitation: Range of motion of the forelimb during stair and ramp ascent. Journal of Small Animal Practice 54(8):409–413.

👉Millard et al., 2010, Kinematic analysis of the pelvic limbs of healthy dogs during stair and decline slope walking. American Journal of Veterinary Research 71(7):734–740.

These studies show that stairs require significantly greater joint flexion and ROM - and therefore greater muscular effort - than incline walking. That increased demand can overload the thoracic sling, carpal stabilisers, lumbar spine, and cervicothoracic junction, especially in dogs with existing pathology or insufficient strength.

👩‍⚕️ How we help as Vetrehabbers:
1. ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES:
🚪Restrict access to stairs for vulnerable dogs - especially large-breed puppies, those with elbow or hip dysplasia, cruciate disease, IVDD, spondylosis, or LS stenosis.
2. EXERCISE
💪 Incorporate targeted strengthening and conditioning before dogs navigate stairs.
🏋️‍♂️ Teach correct technique and posture to reduce compensations and repetitive micro-trauma.

🦴And if this much load is being placed on a large dog, imagine what a small dog experiences as they jump up and down each step. Supervision, strength, and control are not optional - they’re essential for preventing injury.

📆 At the Vet Rehab Summit on 8 November, experts like Anna Lee Sanders, Jana Gams, and Arielle Pechette Markley will dive deep into how we prepare our patients for these real-world challenges - using movement itself as medicine.

08/09/2025

Backwards walking isn’t just reverse action 👇

The ‘back-up’ is a key exercise used in rehabilitation and now we have new evidence to support its effectiveness!

Eldridge et al. (2025) found unique hip extensor muscle activation and increased stifle and hock flexion with backwards walking.

This results of this study support the clinical use of this exercise to improve hind limb strength, stability, coordination and range of movement 👏👏

28/08/2025

I’m back from a lovely couple of weeks on the beach 🏖️ My September diary is filling up fast so please get in touch if you need to book in an appointment 🐶 🐴