Well they are really pleased with Jem, she is progressing much quicker than they would have thought, I think this has something to do with me doing the exercises really regularly and being able to do them properly with her. Elliot is improving but not as quickly as Jem which is to be expected with him being worse than her and also because he gets a bit too excited when it comes to doing the exercises and so doesn't do them as controlled and properly as Jem. The only new thing to do this week is to hot pack Jems abdominal muscles and Elliots Pecs as these are what is causing them their most problems. I have posted a couple of videos of them on the water treadmill, I am really annoyed now that I didn't do this the first week they went but hopefully as this is only the third week the difference will still be noticeable. You can see that Jem puts a lot of weight down through her left front leg, especially when I am on the right of her and so consequently she didn't do as much as the physio would have liked. You can see elliot gets very stressed about being in their but he is loads better than the first week, although his stride is still really really short! Both of them did a really nice bit at the end (with elliot we had two of the long foam things in a v in front of him so he had nothing to lean on and couldn't put his feet on the non moving bit!!) which sadly I didn't get on video but there we go!! I have also posted a video of him on the strawberry line to show how he normally walks - like a looney!!! Also this time I worked out how to turn the sound off so in future when watching my videos you wont get burst ear drums :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGntn67c0ms - For some reason it wouldn't upload to the blog and after 10 attempts I gave up!!
Elliot has been "signed off" flyball again this week but is allowed to go back to agility so at least he will be partly happy although I know he secretly likes flyball best - I am working on him!!
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