Many trainers don’t know what to look when it comes to body checks in order to spot discomfort, compensations or possible injury in their dog. This is particularly true for high drive dogs, who mask pain better than your average pet dog.<\/p>\n
The big questions is: How can you then prevent injury if you don’t know what you are looking for? Be proactive in your training approach with your dogs as much as you can.<\/p>\n
This is what this workshop is all about – You being proactive and not reactive.<\/p>\n
In this part of the workshop we touch on body condition and the impact of fitness, consideration of growth plate closures in puppies when training for sport, signs of pain and fatigue, the impact of sport on muscle symmetry and balance and more.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
When it comes to body checks, it is important to know what your dog’s “normal” state is. In other words, know what your dog’s normal state is when looking at your dog perform positions of sitting, standing and lying down. Know how they normally move and make a note of it so that you may always use it a a point of reference or as a comparison. Get that mental picture, photograph, video. If there’s anything off from that picture, then investigate<\/p>\n
We have a Body Checks for Injury Workshop shows you how to look at static positions and in our mentorship, we go further into assessing structure, gait, angulation, et cetera.<\/p>\n
Use this knowledge when you are conditioning and training your dog, watch how your dog moves and watch how your dog performs their positions. Look carefully to see if there’s any toeing out of any of their limbs, toes, joints, et cetera.<\/p>\n
Those are your quick checks that you can do right now to make sure that your dog is not in any form of discomfort.<\/p>\n
At the end of this workshop, there is a link provided for you to download your PDF which will help you identify various Signs of Pain, Injury and Fatigue in your dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-8396","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-the-k9-athlete-workshop","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"\n