Galen Myotherapy
Enriching The Life Of Dogs
Galen Myotherapy is a unique and highly specialised manual therapy and exercise management. It uses appropriate, effective and targeted specialised massage techniques and exercise management to manage the chronic muscular pain and inflammation that is caused from many different conditions that are so common in a dog’s life.
Why is muscle pain so important to understand?
When the body suffers muscle pain the affected muscle starts to shorten in length. This becomes apparent when observing changes in a dog’s posture. The shortening is due to the pain from the injured or inflamed muscles, where the body is trying to avoid using these painful regions where possible, further inhibiting it.
Why is muscle pain so important to understand?
When the body suffers muscle pain the affected muscle starts to shorten in length. This becomes apparent when observing changes in a dog’s posture. The shortening is due to the pain from the injured or inflamed muscles, where the body is trying to avoid using these painful regions where possible, further inhibiting it.
This inhibition or lack of good function through pain or restriction creates a compensatory process or adaptive change. A dog suffering muscle inhibition from any cause or conditions (such as osteoarthritis or an injury) will present with a lameness – either intermittent or ongoing – or a stiffness.
These can be inconsistent symptoms but, unfortunately, will not be cured by rest alone. The affected muscles will adapt to their new physical environment by becoming overworked and inflexible.
This in turn creates insidious, ongoing, detrimental changes in the dog both physically and psychologically. It’s therefore important to remember that dogs often suffer in silence!
We can’t see or might not notice their growing levels of pain. When we do, it’s often rationalised that the dog is simply ‘getting old’. A dog’s good mobility is an essential but often under recognised requirement for a dog’s total health. Mobility is essential for total health of all the body’s systems; not just the muscular, but the digestive, circulatory, neural, immune, skeletal, digestive, urinary, excretory, nervous, endocrine and reproductive systems.
After therapy, we’ll occasionally find that dogs seemingly unrelated symptoms are alleviated after the Myotherapy treatment!
Galen Myotherapy primarily treats the effects of the condition.
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Julia Robertson and other Galen Canine Myotherapists speak at events all over the world, and run workshops in the UK and beyond. They're also the world-leader in research programmes, and work tirelessly to enrich the lives of dogs.
All Galen Myotherapists are fully qualified and insured and only work with dogs that have a signed veterinary consent form that adheres to the 1966 UK Veterinary Act.