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🔹Fully qualified & insured veterinary physiotherapist
🔹Non-invasive & relaxing treatments:
🔹Massage, soft tissue release, LASER
🔹Detailed musculoskeletal & gait assessment
🚙 Based in Macclesfield, covering Cheshire, South Mcr, Staffs, Derbyshire.

21/08/2025

Out of Office ☀️ 21st - 29th August 🗓️
Missing you all already! See you all soon 🌟 💙

03/08/2025

Some snippets of a few of my lovely patients recently 💙

I would also like to say a belated happy birthday to Head to Tail Vet Physio as we reached our 3rd birthday June just gone 🥳. I must have been too busy for it to cross my mind at the time 🙈. It’s hard to fathom I qualified 4 years ago now, how much I have learnt, and how many amazing humans & animals I have met in that time! A huge thank you for all your support and for keeping me so busy 🙏

On that note, the diary is full until September 🫣 I am away at the end of August, so responses may be delayed at that time. I think most of you are booked in but for anyone needing their next general maintenance appointments booked in, do get in touch to organise for September 🌟.

A final update regarding my working hours - after being nagged my several of my lovely clients (the number of business coaches, financial advisors & moral supporters I get for free is crazy 🤪) to set some boundaries for myself, I am trialing closing the diary to bookings on a Friday to keep this as a clinical admin day for myself (boy does it pile up 📚 👩‍💻).

I continue to work long hours Monday to Thursday to ensure I can still fit everyone in. 🗓️

To all my lovely patients & clients,
💙🐾 🌟 THANK YOU! 🌟 🐾💙

23/07/2025

Handsome Boy Willow looking happy after his 3-weekly treatment to support him with his hip dysplasia ❤️ featuring his not so calm, crazy brother who insists on giving me face boops and ear licks 😂 (he may or may not get temporarily banished by his mum for Willow’s physio time 🫢).

Willow also struggles with a sensitive tummy and is on an amazing concoction of herbal remedies & supplements - the fewer harsh meds the better for Willow and so his regular physio is all the more beneficial for keeping him comfortable ❤️.

07/07/2025

Handsome lad Alfie enjoying his maintenance treatment after a busy weekend competing 🤩😴💙 paws crossed and all 💅 and thank you very much to Alfie’s mum for possibly the most exciting gift I’ve received 😂

04/07/2025

Happy Friday All 🌟 Social media has taken a back seat whilst I’ve been generally very busy! But fear not… we’ve still had plenty of very chilled pooches enjoying their physio treatments. Another lovely week complete of both new & old faces.
Here’s some snaps 💜💙🐶🐾

26/06/2025

Meet this handsome boy, Critique 🐴 💙
Critique has started physiotherapy sessions to support him with kissing spines. As you can see he finds his sessions very relaxing and is a real sweetie to work with! 🌟
Kissing spines is a condition where the dorsal spinous processes (sticky-uppy parts of the spine) are too close together, causing pain, swelling & discomfort.
We are utilising a multi-factorial approach to help to manage pain and improve mobility and strength.

Treatment includes:
⭐️Manual therapies including massage and myofacial release to relieve restrictions in the soft tissues, improve comfort levels and mobility
⭐️Joint mobilisations to improve joint lubrication, flexibility and comfort
⭐️Masterson ™️ bodywork techniques, which help to improve comfort and improve mobility by encouraging the horse’s nervous system to release tension through specific parts of the body
⭐️LASER (electrotherapy) where indicated to support manual therapies.

As a non surgical treatment option, regular physio, plus targeted exercise to help strengthen core & back muscles, along with other potential methods (e.g corticosteroid injections) can help support the spinal column and control pain & inflammation. Often there are other things going on at the same time, (e.g hindlimb soreness or muscle pain) so each physio session is tailored to work on all aspects of your horse’s needs 💙.

09/06/2025

Zoom in for the paw 🥹🥹🤍🤍
As I say to his owner every time, this boy melts me and makes me want to cry in the best way possible 😂
So grateful to be able to be part helping him feel more comfortable and living his best life 🐾 🌟

04/06/2025

Release! 🥱 ✨

I try to mention during sessions that it’s a really great sign if your dog or horse is yawning during the treatment. (Do note that yawning with dogs can indicate anxiety from a behavioural point of view but it is possible to differentiate). Yawning indicates a large release of tension. This might be at the time of treatment or a bit later on.
There are also some other more subtle signs to look out for that indicate tension release:

* Blinking / twitching of the eyes or lips
* Sighing or changes in breathing
* Softening of the eyes or face
* Licking and chewing
* Fussing or fidgeting
* Shifting weight around / swapping the resting leg
* Snorting / sneezing
* Shaking the head or body
* Self stretching

I may decide to step back at times and allow your animal to respond how they need to as they process the changes happening in their body. It is easy to fall in to the trap of feeling like you always need to be doing something but allowing the animal to work through the motions is most valuable in facilitating positive change.

The perfectionist in me often wants to work on everything but I’ve learnt that it’s like peeling layers of an onion - you can’t change everything in one session - the animal knows how much they’re ready to release - you can just make one small positive change at a time. You really do have to throw away the clock when working with animals!

30/05/2025

Sharing the love between these two dafties 😂🥰
I see the lovely Alaska every few weeks to support her with her hip dysplasia & osteoarthritis. She enjoys her LASER, massage, & gentle mobilisations to keep her as pain-free & mobile as possible 💖 Meanwhile, her big (younger 😂) brother likes to take the limelight and get his fusses in where he can 😂

25/05/2025

Some snaps from an amazing course in Canine Myofascial Release (also applicable to all other animals 🙌 🐴 🐱 🐰 ).

What is fascia?
Fascia develops during the first few weeks of foetal development, and remains as a connected single web throughout life! It is very important as it provides support throughout the whole body. Concussion can be transmitted and absorbed via fascia, and its elastic properties allows it to store energy, allowing for movement without effort.

What happens to fascia in dysfunction?
After any micro injury, fascia becomes stiffer local to the area of stress, reducing elasticity, reducing function and making it more prone to damage. Trauma or prolonged repetitive stress can come from a physical or emotional source, which also leads to thickened fascia.

This in turn can cause pain (via compression of blood vessels & nerves), restrict range of movement, trap toxins and prevent lymphatic flow.

How does myofasical release work?
Gentle load is added to elongate and soften the tissue. This gentle pressure acts on mechanoreceptors to facilitate a release in tissue tension. A sustained pressure enables elastin fibres to release (80-90 seconds) and collagen fibres to release (3 minutes +). So if I’m ever working on your animal, and it looks like I’m not doing anything (hands not moving anywhere 😂) trust me - lots of good things are happening!!

Release of fascial tension can improve lymph & nutrient flow. (Stagnant lymph can lead to oedema, inflammation, chronic trigger points or undesirable cell changes due to a toxic acidic environment).

Fascia is a sense; its perception is richer than vision (Schleip, 2023). It is rich in nerve endings, picking up changes in blood flow, temperature and interoception (the animals ability to tune into themselves). Bringing interoceptive awareness via the fascia is beneficial in making deeper changes in physical & emotional health.

Thank you to the lovely doggies & owners who helped us learn and refine our skills 💜

25/05/2025

A couple of weeks ago I was on a 2 day introductory course to the Masterson Method ® for horses. (Although applicable to all animals!).

The Masterson Method ® is an interactive method of bodywork in which the practitioner uses the responses of the animal to their touch in order to find and release areas of tension in the body that is having a negative impact.

This enables the animal to actively participate in the session - and let’s face it - our animals have a much better idea of their areas of soreness and pain than we do!

The course was equine focused and it really has re-ignited that ever so slightly buried passion & spark to work with horses more - I have been searching to find the treatment approach that suited me and I feel I have finally found it. I always felt something was lacking when working with horses - but couldn’t quite put my finger on it - but everything about this method resonated so strongly with me and I feel it’s opened a new perspective and gateway to bring about some beautiful positive changes in my equine patients 🐴.

The Masterson Method ® results in improvements in the horses’ comfort, mobility, suppleness and performance, via varying levels of touch (ranging from incredibly light touch to deeper massage). This is by no means a replacement for any of my physiotherapy techniques I already utilise, but a complete refreshment in my mindset and how I approach my treatments, integrating all of my knowledge and skills to date.

* Slow connection of touch to response - I.e the initial connecting to the horse to establish areas of tension which in turn can bring about tension releases
* Massage with a varied range of techniques and pressures
* Myofascial release - a more detailed post on this to come as I have completed a detailed course in this
* Acupressure - balancing energy within the body via working on the meridians (the same way in which acupuncture works). I’ll do another post on this as I have also completed an animal acupressure course! 🙈
* Gentle joint mobilisations through the spine (including neck flexion / movements and down through the back) and limbs
* Releases through the hyoid and joints in the skull, all the way to the pelvis and tail area (think cranio-sacral concepts).
* LASER (photobiomodulation) therapy where indicated
* PEMFT (pulsed electromagnetic field therapy) where indicated

The Masterson Method ® brings all these techniques together in a really useful way. Please do note that I hope to work on continue the training for certification in the coming years - to be clear I am not a certified Masterson Method ® practitioner and only they can use this as a title.

Huge thanks to this amazing handsome lad who I had the pleasure to work with - who’s at an incredible age - and all the wisdom that comes with it - a great teacher 🐴 ❤️

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