The Vet Physio Academy

Calling all Student and Graduate Vet Physiotherapists!!

✅Are you keen to consolidate your learning journey so far?
✅Would you like the opportunity to fine tune your skills in practice and theory and gain confidence from experienced and qualified lecturers and veterinary physiotherapy practitioners?
✅ Are you apprehensive about upcoming veterinary physiotherapy exams?
✅If you have answered yes to any of the questions above then our Veterinary Physiotherapy Consolidation Days are for you.
NB: These days are species specific 🐕🐴

This day course, is designed to help you consolidate your learning by offering multiple units that cover the essential topics and skills of veterinary physiotherapy. Benefit from small class sizes, personalised feedback and peer support to aid your journey into the veterinary physiotherapy world.

Veterinary Physiotherapy Consolidation Day - CANINE
DATE: Saturday 20th April
VENUE: GL54 3PX (Gloucestershire)
PLACES: LIMITED

Keep an eye out for the release of both of our:
🟡Veterinary Professional Series
🔵Animal Owner Series

For more info just email [email protected]

📢 Veterinary Physiotherapy Consolidation Day - EQUINE
The date for this day, will be announced shortly as we are just confirming location.
Booking links to the above event will be posted shortly, watch this space 👀

As we start moving out of the winter months and into goal setting period for 2024, what do you feel are the vital components to a balanced diet and exercise routine for our athletic animals?

Hash brown for attention!! 😜

Happy New Year All!!
As we approach the end of the second week of 2024, I am starting to feel a little bit more human after spending a week in hospital just before Christmas with Viral Pneumonia and RSV! 😷😷
Time to get back to the grindstone 💪 and make our ideas become a reality and create a supportive community for both veterinary professionals and animal owners. Our vision is to create a space, where we can all respect each others views, opinions and experiences but most importantly, learn from one another. 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🏫
Our In-person training, online CPD courses and general discussion topics will be released shortly. If there is anything specific that you are interested in then please write in the comments below or PM me so that we can push popular topics in first.
Here is a little sneak peak at some of our already requested topics that we will be discussing and teaching over the next few months:
✅The Importance of warm up and cool down
✅ Components of a balanced conditioning and fitness plan
✅ Basic Massage techniques and their uses
✅ What is pain?
Looking forward to getting back to what I love best (other than my family and my animals)............ vet physio and teaching!

If you are not already a member of our FREE Private FB group then please come across and join us, as that is where the discussions / info will be shared.

T x

Good Morning All - Tace here!
For those of you that don’t know me, I talk, and I talk ……. A LOT! So I thought I’d take a few minutes to try and introduce myself as I make up the other half of the VPA team.
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Having worked in Polo and Point to Point yards whilst at uni, I started my veterinary career over 20 years ago as a veterinary nurse for a small animal hospital. My partner at the time, had a personal training gym, so I left nursing to manage the gym, which took me down the path of qualifying as a personal trainer and sports massage therapist. I opened my human sports injury clinic in Gloucestershire in 2004, however, I missed working with animals so decided to specialise and study massage; and obtained 2 massage diplomas, both distinctions in equine and canine.

At this time I was competing my own dog in agility, but what struck me as odd, was the lack of warm up and cool down for the dogs and owners; so I found myself at the World Agility Championships as Team England Therapist working with both dogs and handlers and there I stayed for 10 years working with some of the top partnerships (and still do!!).

I felt my qualifications didn’t support my knowledge, so at the age of 35 and with a 2 year old son in tow, I went back to studying and found the Level 7 CEPT course in Veterinary Physiotherapy (which is now the MSc at Nottingham University). I also found Claire, who became my study partner in crime! Once qualified, we both went on to qualify as Clinical Educators so that we could both teach Veterinary Physiotherapy to a high standard.

8 years on and having developed my business further, I specialise in injury rehabilitation, balanced conditioning and exercise prescription programmes for sporting and working dogs (predominantly agility but have elite competitors in caniX, racing, sheepdog and gundog trials to name a few). I run student clinics and placement days for vet physio students at Nottingham and other universities and I also teach Animal Science at Hartpury University.

The Vet Physio Academy has been years in the making and has been set up to provide support, mentorship, training and advice for students, graduates and qualified therapists and not forgetting client education as our clients need to understand what they should be getting from a vet physio and how to find them! I am a great believer in continuing to learn but also to take your time in mastering your skill set.

I own 2 horses and 13 working dogs and I live on an organic farm estate in Gloucestershire with my partner and rugby playing, surfing, F1 obsessed son! My weekends are taken up by ferrying my son around to his various sporting competitions and being a cheerleader 📣on the side lines 😂!!