Front Matter

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 229 Components of an athletic readiness evaluation Clinical examinatio ...

230 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation abdominal, quadriceps, and hamstrings) where the 50th percentile represents the av ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 231 Health screening Every performance and working dog should be scree ...

232 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Frequently canine athletes are adminis­ tered numerous supplements, many of which ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 233 The basic principle of strength training to achieve momentary over ...

234 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation understanding that it means health, longevity, and athletic success. The following ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 235 Sit‐to‐stand with front feet elevated. The client has the dog stan ...

236 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Tugging. Playing tug is a favorite activity of many performance dogs ( Figure 10.7 ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 237 more than 5 seconds ( Figure 10.10). One way to get a dog to initi ...

238 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation each of the thoracic limbs,  depending on which muscles are being targeted. Wheelb ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 239 Figure 10.14 A dog working with its pelvic limbs on a perch. The d ...

240 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Core strengthening exercises Beg/sit pretty. While sitting on a firm, nonslip surf ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 241 In  addition, if the dog already knows how to wave or do high‐nine ...

242 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation undertaken by dogs with acute back pain or chronic back pain of unknown origin. Di ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 243 significant strength to complete. Clients might need to try for se ...

244 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation exercise should not be attempted until all levels of the beg on all surfaces can b ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 245 the perch in each direction. The perch can then be gradually eleva ...

246 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation dog’s height at the withers (Figure  10.26) (see Chapter  2). The distance between ...

Chapter 10 Conditioning and Retraining the Canine Athlete 247 steeper hills (Figure  10.28) is an excellent way to target the pe ...

248 Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Mondays and Thursdays, core muscles on Tuesdays and Fridays, and pelvic limb exerc ...