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

21/04/2026

❤️ Taabi ❤️

It's a good thing she is pretty - cos that walk ain't gonna get her far in life! 🤦‍♀️🧐😳😆

💪 The lady grey hasn't been in the treadmill for quite a while, and with her 9th birthday approaching she is starting to not look as 'muscley' as she used to, nothing really specific - likely age related sarcopenia (muscles getting smaller with age, happens to us humans from our 40's!). Good news is this can be paused, reversed and kept at bay with the right nutrition and conditioning. Anyway I digress....

So, back to the gym for Taabi it is.

🧐 She has been moving very well on land, imagine my surprise when I see THIS gait in the underwater treadmill! Yikes.

I have two separate days on this video, with some improvement in the second but we are not there yet.

🫵 So back to the physio clinic she goes!

🤔 Can you spot what she is doing that is giving her physio mum the heeby jeebies?!

One of the roles that the underwater treadmill has in physiotherapy is in gait analysis. It is almost like looking at movement in slo mo and we can often see much in there that can be harder to spot on land.

14/03/2026

🥳 Saturday sessions! 🥳

Whoooo!

A little tired after my first Saturday in clinic in quite a while. Great to see one client today who I last saw mid 2025 (it only feels like a few months ago!) and another special little guy from 2023! So great to see their people too!

So, playing around with the idea of offering more Saturday sessions, online booking is open!

But tonight...Saturday night...we play with greyhound ears 🥳🤷‍♀️😆🫶❤️

23/02/2026

🐾 Bowie 🐾

Smashing his rehab after bilateral TPLO for cranial cruciate ligament injury.

❤️ Love how Bowie's confidence has grown in the underwater treadmill, enough that he can really push his trot work now and build up that left hind limbs muscle bulk further. He used to get a bit worried by faster work so its really cool to see him not have the strength and confidence to really push forward with impulsion and go get those treats!

👐 In between trot sets, we have walk breaks where I can use my hands to facilitate a more efficient and better gait pattern behind. If a dog is recove

Super work Bowie!

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20/02/2026

🐾 Storm 🐾

Just smashing out her trot like she never had any cranial cruciate ligament woes in her life...

🪶 She was 100% commited to regular physio post bilateral TPLO surgeries and she is now flying...flying so well she is flying my physio coop 😭😆🥰❤️

🇮🇪 As they say where this physio hails from (the real capital, Cork, Ireland) - Savage work Storm!

18/02/2026

🐾 Storm 🐾

Oh my gosh, how proud of us both I am 🥰.

📷 Proud of myself for FINALLY getting a snapshot of this whirlwind of a lady who has denied me a good photo since we stared working together in May 2024!

💪🏻 And super proud of Storm and her family for doing such an epic job of her rehabilitation post surgeries for cranial (or anterior in us humans) cruciate injury.

Storm had her first TPLO with her wonderful orthopaedic team in April 2024. Once she recovered from that, she was discharged from physiotherapy with honours.

👐 Storm wasn't a super fan of the hands on side of physiotherapy so I never really got any cuddles (not that cuddles are a necessary part of physiotherapy but hey...I have my weaknesses!) but would enjoy her post physio hydrotherapy sessions and they shoot out the front door like a 🚀 to go home.

Storm unfortunately followed the stats of being one of the 50% of dogs who injure the other hind leg as well. So, Storm returned mid 2025 after having her other leg operated upon.

Imagine my surprise when Storm returned to greet me (like really say hello - even take a treat!) and sit on my lap in true Staffy style - I finally got the cuddles! Whoop!

🥅 Sad to say that Storm has smashed her physio goals again and is back on her family walks. And that's means she doesn't need me now 😭 and has been discharged again!

🌈 But hey, that's what its all about for many of our clients - to get back to moving well and living well and well, not needing us physios anymore.

❤️ Great work my lovely Storm - Ill miss your energy and cuddles!

staffy

11/02/2026

🐾 Blacky 🐾

Gorgeous Blacky comes to see us regularly for physiotherapy and aquatic physiotherapy in our underwater treadmill to help manage her osteoarthritis.

Blacky has had a history of bilateral cranial cruciate ligament injury and surgery and has a few orthopaedic niggles which we are managing, alongside the rest of her wonderful team and .tech

Some of the signs of discomfort she was showing included the following:

🐾 Looking weaker in her hindlegs over the last 6 to 12 months

🐾 Difficulty getting up

🐾 Struggling with mobility on tiles

🐾 Difficulty managing stairs - able to get up better than coming down, a bit of a hop or two in there to cope!

🐾 Change of position e.g. moving from side lying to rolling over...

🐾 Struggling on uneven ground

👉 Most of the time, signs of pain in our animals isn't a whine or a cry, or even necessarily limping. The early signs of discomfort can be much more subtle - but some of these signs showed by Blacky here will give you an idea what to look out for.

📝 The sooner we get onto a management plan, alongside your vet's plan, the better for your furry best friend!

Osteoarthritis is a very manageable condition - although we can't get rid of the degenerative joint changes that are already there (unless we replace the joint), but there is much that we can do to help to manage chronic pain alongside your vet, to improve muscle strength and function and hence improve quality of life and go the things we love - sometimes in a different (and maybe even better) way than before!

🌊 As for Blacky, you will be finding her at her local beach every weekend with her lovely family by her side.

❤️ And that's why I love to do what I do!

Helping your fur friends move well so that they can live well alongside you, their best person ❤️

28/12/2025

🐕 Happy Holidays 🐴

From our family to yours....

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and get to spend lots of time with your loved ones! ❤️

🐕 Taabi
🐕 Matty
🦄 Ollie AKA Big Red
🦄 Forrest AKA FoBo
🤷‍♀️ Myself
And
My better half ❤️

24/12/2025

🎄 Happy Christmas Eve 🎄

To all of our clients - thank you so much much for entrusting me with the care of your beloved furry family member - its been an honour and a privilege to work with every one of you over the last 12 months - whether it be us crossing paths for one visit or many - I appreciate you all and thank you to the bottom of my ❤️ for allowing me to do what I just love to do - work with the animals you love to share your life with and tell you all the things you need to do that you may not want to hear about 😇😆!

To the hounds & rabbit (thank you for representing the 🐇 dear Rain!) - thank you for keeping me oh so busy this Christmas week!

❤️ Ivy
❤️ Saffi
❤️ Nash
❤️ Blackie
❤️ Rain
❤️ Rocket
❤️ Cookie
❤️ Rory
❤️ Douglas
❤️ Toby
❤️ Coco & sidekick Mars
❤️ & Coco!

And to a few incredible souls that have sadly left us this year - I miss you all very much and am thinking of your very special folks who will be missing you 🐾❤️🐾.

✨️ I know you guys are sitting up there amongst the stars, alongside our Indie and Josh! ✨️

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year - thank you again for supporting my little business, for helping me to help the 2, 3 and 4 legged we are lucky to share our lives with.

Nollaig Shona Duit!

Happy Christmas!

23/12/2025

🥰 Feeling Loved 🥰

Thank you Coco!

What a way to wrap up the craziest week of all - all two days of it 😅🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾

Happy Christmas Eve Eve day everyone 🎄

19/12/2025

🐾 Molly 🐾

Wonderful to see the lively Molly back in our Bayswater clinic .physio yesterday!

She is full full of energy in clinic, full of life and joi de vivre!

Molly sustained a horrible forelimb fracture back in August (very similar circumstances to our own Matt's fracture in November last year!). When we first saw her back in October she was struggling to weight bear on the affected limb and was getting a little too good at hopping.

With physiotherapy, both land and water based (hands on!), we were able to address this. She has since improved further with removal of one of her two implants, thank you to her team !

She does have quite a bit of muscle atrophy around her shoulder girdle and scapular musculature, so we have her 'gym program' up and running now to address this and hopefully get her back to moving well and limp free.

🏋‍♂️ Did you know that land based exercises, daily exercises, are REALLY important as part of your dog's rehabilitation journey? We need gravity and body weight to stimulate muscle development - enough stimulus to challenge the body to respond and build back up its muscles again, and this takes time and consistency with getting the exercises done.

Hydrotherapy is a great tool, but should never replace the basics of strength training on land!

🎯 We need to be specific - what muscles need to be targeted? Understand the biomechanics and what the body needs to be able to do to manage functional tasks without resorting to suboptimal movement patterns that in the long term won't be helpful for the body.

🦴 We need to think not just about now, but what the joints will need in 2, 5, 10 years from now to maintain a healthy and functional life, that is, to be able to get up independently, walk outside to toilet independently, go for a walk and HAVE some FUN! What we choose to do, or not do today, matters.

No shortcuts!

Well done Molly! 🥳

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 ☘️

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 🥳

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Tuesday	8am - 6pm
Wednesday	8am - 6pm
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Friday	8am - 6pm

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