Animalia Physiotherapy

Animalia Physiotherapy Physiotherapy & aquatic physiotherapy for animals of all species, shapes and sizes.

🐾 Molly 🐾Beautiful Molly has been seeing Physio Eilís for ongoing care after sustaining an injury which is all too fami...
06/11/2025

🐾 Molly 🐾

Beautiful Molly has been seeing Physio Eilís for ongoing care after sustaining an injury which is all too familiar to us here at Animalia Physio - a fractured radius and ulna, the two long bones of the forearm.

Like our Matt, Molly also unfortunately did a good job with a significant fracture resulting, and underwent surgery with her vet team .

Funnily enough, both Molly's accident and our Matt's accident happened when the 'parents in law' were visiting their respective families - sometimes you just have to see the lighter side in life, what a coincidence! 🍋😆

What do we do?
🐶 Manual therapy- hands on work to improve her shoulder, elbow and carpus (wrist) range of motion

🐶 Exercise based therapy - land based to make the use of gravity to stimulate bone healing - loading is super important to stimulate the body to heal and remodel the fracture site appropriately

🐶 Neuromuscular electrical stimulation or NMES for short - trying to get a lazy and atrophied Supraspinatus muscle functioning

🐶 Low level laser therapy - pain relief and to stimulate bone healing

🐶 Hydrotherapy - with Physio Eilís in there, hands on, working on getting Molly to use her leg in water

🐶 Education - discussing the fine and delicate balance of trying to gently increase loading for Molly without overdoing it

🐶 That's about how to keep a busy, busy dog sane and happy when she can't return to running and jumping just yet!

🐵 Moral support for the family. I have been there, its hard yakka!

Molly has her vet review tomorrow - best of luck Molly ☘️















🐾 Dachshund Friday 🐾It's been a Dachshund month here .physio - what is it with October and IVDD?!Meet Cannoli, Ivy and P...
31/10/2025

🐾 Dachshund Friday 🐾

It's been a Dachshund month here .physio - what is it with October and IVDD?!

Meet Cannoli, Ivy and Penny, my Friyay crew representing the Dachshund's of Melbourne.

All dealing with varying levels of IVDD, some needing surgery to recover and others managing with conservative management.

Happy to say that all three are doing so well - kudos to their people for the hard yards they are putting in for their beloved and quite often spicey canine companions!

But I am going home with all 10 fingers still attached - quite the feat with the appetites this trio bring to their physiotherapy sessions 😅🐾

Got love the ❤️ and 🌶 of a Daschhund!

Happy Friday everyone 🥳












❤️ What an inspirational woman ❤️
02/10/2025

❤️ What an inspirational woman ❤️

🖤 National Black Dog Day 🖤Here's to all the dark of coat, the long and the short hair, the smooth and the curly...The je...
01/10/2025

🖤 National Black Dog Day 🖤

Here's to all the dark of coat, the long and the short hair, the smooth and the curly...

The jet black to those with a white toe, sock or two, three or four...

Those with a black as goal face and to those who have earned their salty faces...

To the black dogs we share our lives with.

We see you and we 🖤 you!










Can you imagine it's been three years already?! Three years since our Hydro Physio underwater treadmill was delivered an...
24/09/2025

Can you imagine it's been three years already?!

Three years since our Hydro Physio underwater treadmill was delivered and settled in...

Six years since I completed (with blood, sweat and yes, tears - damn you Excel spreadsheets ) my MSc in Veterinary Physiotherapy - looking at the long term outcomes of cranial cruciate injury in dogs ( result - 30% have signs of chronic pain several years after, even with surgery...)

Seven years since I completed my PGDip in Veterinary Physiotherapy - how I miss those two years working alongside other amazing Vet Physios to be - all around the world from University of Liverpool! With the goal of ACPAT - The Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Animal Therapy membership in sight - the whole reason I chose to study physiotherapy 22 (yikes!) years ago.

And a grand 18 years since I graduated with my BSc in Physiotherapy from University College Dublin - my favourite part of my undergraduate degree was my research study looking at repeatability of the equine gait, using the physiotherapy school's motion analysis equipment on the vet school horses - just amazing. I think my supervisor was a bit stunned to see my interest in physiotherapy go through the roof - all I needed was an animal to focus me!

I needed this boost after some tough conversations today 😢... but that's life eh...gotta get through the ruff days to really enjoy the great days - e.g. getting dogs back walking and enjoying life post spinal surgery, makes the challenges all worth while!







🐾 Coco 🐾Gorgeous Coco 😍 Coco is lucky, her physiotherapist comes to him!Coco had a hindlimb amputation after unfortunate...
24/09/2025

🐾 Coco 🐾

Gorgeous Coco 😍

Coco is lucky, her physiotherapist comes to him!

Coco had a hindlimb amputation after unfortunate complications post orthopaedic surgery.

Coco is doing super dooper now on three limbs - he does get a little sore in his back, thoracolumbar spine, due to his new 'tripawd' gait pattern - there is an adjustment period whilst the body adapts to moving in a new way.

But adaptable the body is, incredibly so - amd there is nothing like seeing a tripawd animal adapt to what we humans can really struggle with.

So, with hands on manual therapy, a little photobiomodulation (laser therapy), exercise therapy, trimming paw pad fur (those hairy border collie paw pads!!) along with lots of knowledge sharing and support- that physiotherapy for you.

Super work Coco - keep on managing those birds in the garden, keeping on top of your companion's antics and bringing your lovely family endless joy and fun!













23/09/2025

🐾 Maggie 🐾

This song is PERFECT for this social butterfly - just perfect.

Maggie is the shiniest (or fluffiest) and happiest 'person' out there - her energy and enthusiasm are just infectious!

Maggie had surgery to manage grade 3 patella luxation in her hindlimb back in May, unfortunately she had a set back in her recovery post op., perhaps a slip, and unfortunately pulled up lame again.

So off to physiotherapy she went, after a thorough nose to tail assessment, once we had our problem list drawn up (main issues as per her family, functional limitations and impairments identified), a physiotherapy plan was set up and off we go...

In order of importance:

🐾 Education for the family about how to manage her at home

🐾 Hands on therapy - soft tissue work, myofascial and trigger point release, manual therapy

🐾 Exercise based therapy

🐾 Laser therapy

🐾 More education!

🐾 Aquatic physiotherapy AKA hydrotherapy - hands on of course!

She is doing really well now, she has a nice spring in her step and challenging her lovely people to keep up with her!

Super work Maggie ❤️













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🐾❤️ International Dog Day ❤️ 🐾Celebrating a special day to honour those special ones who make our lives ✨️ that bit more...
26/08/2025

🐾❤️ International Dog Day ❤️ 🐾

Celebrating a special day to honour those special ones who make our lives ✨️ that bit more - or, for many of us, might be the reason we get out of bed in the morning 🌄.

For those hounds, the long legged and the short, the long lush coats and the coarse brindle fur, the pups and the senior pawtizens, from the workers & the athletes to those with scars and disability. They all matter. The puppy eyed and the grey of face. 

My ❤️ is a bit heavy of late, so we have lost a few very special souls who I was honoured to spend time with, and get to know. Along with their people holding the other end of the leash, the harness.

Today, when taking a moment to simply celebrate our dogs, I especially think of those who have recently received heavy news about their beloved hounds health, those who are getting ready to make the toughest and most important decisions soon, for their best friend 😔.

I think of her with the new diagnosis that is now life limiting, and of him whose time on earth with his special people will come to a close very soon 🌈. 

I dont forget any of the 🐾 I have had the honour and privilage of working with over these last 10 years since I graduated from Liverpool University. 10 years, that's a lot of 🐾 to remember and honour.

All of these hounds shape their own special space in their people's ❤️, and in mine too. 

For the love of a dog , there is nothing, nothing so incredible to know.

 
 


 


 
 

Choose Qualified. Choose Physio!
06/08/2025

Choose Qualified. Choose Physio!


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