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KEYNOTE Speakers
EQUINE SACROILIAC AND HIND LIMB PROXIMAL SUSPENSORY DESMITIS GABRIELLE KERFOOT, IRVAP
Hear the former vice chair of NAVP and co-creator of IRVAP as she explains these injuries, their rehabilitation and subsequent return to competition.
JUNE 2014 ANIMAL REHABILITATION
SMALL ANIMAL AQUATIC AND HYDROTHERAPY BARBARA HOULDING, CHAIR, IRVAP
Join the Co-Course Director of the PGCert in Small Animal Rehabilitation at Nottingham Veterinary School as she explains the range of integrated treatment techniques on land and water that are available to small animal therapists.
Gabrielle Kerfoot, BSC ( Hons) FIRVAP, graduated from Sutton Bonnington/ Nottingham University in 1991 with a BSc (Hons) in Animal Science, specialising in neurobiology. After graduating, Gabrielle worked in a veterinary hospital in Oxford that specialised in equine physiotherapy, and was in charge of the equine water treadmill. In 1992, Gabrielle returned home to Cheshire to start up her own veterinary physiotherapy practice. Since then, she has built up a very busy full-time practice over the past 22 years, incorporating a rehabilitation yard of 11 boxes, weekly clinics and outpatients. Gabrielle treats more than 50 horses per week, ranging from Group 1 racehorses, Grand Prix dressage horses, and 4-star eventers to pony club ponies. Cases are directly referred to her by veterinary surgeons from all over the UK. Gabrielle particularly enjoys treating horses as inpatients, pre and post surgery, improving the quality of healing and facilitating the return to competition. She is very passionate about postural training in horses, improving their athletic ability and enhancing performance of the competition horse. Gabrielle has been Vice Chairman of the National Association of Veterinary Physiotherapists (NAVP), from 1998 to 2006. In 2007, she helped create IRVAP, Institute of Registered Veterinary and Animal Physiotherapists, hoping to umbrella all professionals under one roof to help the welfare of patients and referral ability of veterinary surgeons. Gabrielle also lectures in all areas of equine veterinary physiotherapy and frequently takes veterinary physiotherapy students to pass on her years of experience. She was a principle member of the original staff creating the CEPT Veterinary Physiotherapy course.
Barbara Houlding, MScVetPhysio, graDDIPPHYS, mCSP, FIRVAP, acpAT (CAT A), specialises in small animal rehabilitation and is Co-Course Director of the PGCert in Small Animal Rehabilitation (level 7). This accredited university course run by Nottingham Veterinary School offers a heavily clinical-loaded learning experience linking underpinning knowledge to all aspects of clinical practice in small animal veterinary physiotherapy, aquatic and hydrotherapy, small animal behavioural modification techniques and business management of small animal practice. Barbara qualified as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 1983 and completed her MSc in Veterinary Physiotherapy at the Royal Veterinary College in 2002. She went on to become the small animal lecturer, a clinical educator and an assistant examiner at the RVC for the next 10 years, until the course closed. Barbara is a member of several professional groups and is passionate about animal centred practice, actively promoting a caring and positive approach to all aspects of small animal healthcare and welfare issues. Currently Chair of IRVAP, a fast-growing professional group of like-minded therapists who aim to deliver best practice for their referred animal patient. IRVAP has a diverse membership that includes veterinary surgeons, veterinary physiotherapists, physiotherapists, small animal rehabilitation therapists, hydrotherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, animal behaviourists, veterinary nurses and students from all training routes who are working towards gaining a qualification to start their journey in a career in animal therapy. The majority of IRVAP members work full-time in the animal therapy sector and IRVAP actively collaborates with other professional groups to advance standards of animal therapy excellence.
THURSDAY, KEYNOTE THEATRE 16:00 - 16:45
FRIDAY, KEYNOTE THEATRE 14:00 - 14:45
REHABILITATION OF SACROILIAC AND HIND LIMB PROXIMAL SUSPENSORY DESMITIS IN THE EQUINE PATIENT
CURRENT TREATMENT TECHNIQUES IN SMALL ANIMAL AQUATIC AND HYDROTHERAPY
A discussion of the veterinary physiotherapy treatment and rehabilitation of both sacroiliac injuries and hind limb proximal suspensory desmitis in the equine patient. Discussing the links to the injuries occurring together and singularly, this seminar explains the methods of successful rehabilitation and the effectiveness of returning patients to competition.
Small animal rehabilitation aims to optimise the movement, function and behaviours of the individual small animal patient alongside meeting the needs of the owner client. Assessment and re-assessment linked to clinical reasoning are central to an effective and appropriate treatment programme. The small animal therapist utilises a range of integrated treatment techniques that are water based and land based to achieve positive outcomes.