The WSU veterinarian and assistant professor was recently awarded one of the highest national honors for veterinary rehabilitation — the 2023 John J. Sherman III Award for Excellence in Veterinary Rehabilitation.
My favorite part about being an educator is learning from the students. They constantly challenge me to continue my own educational journey.
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Alice couldn’t get into her litterbox, but with laser therapy she enjoys life again.
Not many remember when McCoy Hall served as WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
Mater was a dog in his prime, hunting every weekend alongside his owner.
On a Sunday morning in October 2012, Tara Johnson and her husband heard their dog “Juno,” a 4-year-old Husky, whimpering several yards from their house. They ran to find her lying on the ground not moving. Although they couldn’t see any bite marks through her fur, they did see saliva on her neck.
“That would be typical of a wolf attack,” said Johnson. “We’d had several wolf sightings near our house a few months before she was injured.”
Who says cookies can’t be good for you? When Lori Lutskas goes to work each day, she carries a bag of cookies with her to encourage her patients to do their exercises.
“We do cookie stretches,” said Lutskas, a licensed veterinary technician and WSU’s veterinary physical rehabilitation practitioner. She puts a cookie (aka a healthy dog treat) on a dog’s hip so the dog will stretch around to get it. “We try to make it fun.”
A 6-year-old dachshund name “Dexter,” was referred to the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital by his local veterinarian after he stopped using his hind legs and began dragging them as he walked with his front legs. Dexter was having back pain and an MRI revealed one of his discs was pressing on his spinal cord causing the paralysis in his hind legs, a fairly common condition in dachshunds.
