Why I became a Vet Physio

 Why did I become a vet physio?

 

Money.

 

The end.

 

I joke of course!

 

… You can’t make money working with animals :’)



Becoming a vet physio wasn’t a long-term game plan of mine.

 

To be honest, I’ve never had a long-term game plan, I still don’t!

 

I remember the idea first came to my head when I was working as a groom.

 

I was working on a private, high-end eventing yard in the Cotswolds.

 

I was well paid, had accommodation included, and the workload was perfectly manageable (most of the time).

 

Then, one day I had a sudden realisation that my grooming career had potentially peaked.

 


I wouldn’t have minded, but I was 24, I couldn’t be at the height yet?

 

Plus, I had been a groom for over 5 years at this point, and although I loved it, I didn’t love the idea of doing it forever.

 

I’ll write a blog in due course about why that is … it’ll be a long one!

 

I’d toyed with the idea of becoming an equine massage therapist in the past. But I had no idea where to begin with it, plus, I wanted to make sure I was appropriately trained.

 

I didn’t want to do a 6-week course and be sent out into the world to make it up as I went.

 

I wanted a thorough, in-depth education (a degree, preferably) in something I was passionate about, that would keep me in the world of horses

 

Then my boss got in a veterinary physiotherapist to assess her horses …


 

I hadn’t really heard much about vet physios at the time

 

I knew about equine chiropractors and equine masseurs, but not so much about vet physios

 

(I imagine you can see where this is going…)

 

Well, I must say I was very impressed with what he did

 

This man would watch the horses walk and trot up, and would compile a list of things he could see that could be a current or potential issue

 

And everything he said made sense

 

He’d explain his thought process and show us what he meant where he could, and it was incredible

 

I would watch him work whenever I could, and loved how well he understood everything

 

Plus, once we’d implemented his treatment plans, we started seeing the results he promised us


 

More proof that this man knew what he was talking about, and that vet physio really did work

 

This is when I realised that I’d love to be a vet physio if I could

 

Following some discussions with him, I found that I could complete a degree in veterinary physiotherapy

 

So I started my research, found a uni I liked, applied, and now look! I’m all graduated and stuff!




I enjoyed the idea of vet physio so much, because of the proof of effect I saw

 

I’m very much a ‘see it to believe it’ kind of person

 

I’ll rarely take things at face value, and I like to understand how something works completely before I put my faith in it

 

And now that I am educated in vet physio, and am now emersed in that world, I can see just how much there is to it

 

There are a lot of different avenues to go down, and many things you can specialise in

 

There are countless techniques, and therapies, and ideas going around that the possibilities of what could be done to help an animal seem endless




 And, I think it’s that fact that draws me to vet physio so much

 

It fits perfectly into my unplanned career path, I can go all sorts of ways with vet physio and still be completely involved with it

 

At the moment, I would love to get into lecturing one day, and do that part-time alongside my vet physio business

 

I would also eventually like to do a masters in McTimoney Chiropractics

 

But I’m not beholden to anything, and would certainly love to see what opportunities come my way in the future

 

I mean, if you’d told 19-year-old me, that I’d be a vet physio one day, I wouldn’t have believed you!

 

And now – fully qualified, owning my own business and growing steadily!


Thank you so much for taking the time to read my blog.

 

I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments about topics you’d like me to write about, or any suggestions to improve my blogs.

 

For any other information, or to book a veterinary physiotherapy appointment, please contact me directly.

 

All the best,

Emma, The Biomechanic.

BSc(Hons), FdSc, MIRVAP, RAMP

07861195709

emma@the-biomechanic.co.uk

www.the-biomechanic.co.uk




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