Meet Your Pet's Vet Physio
The Positive Veterinary Physiotherapist was founded by Caroline Glazier a fully qualified and fully insured Veterinary Physiotherapist. I am also a member of the National Association of Veterinary Physiotherapists (NAVP). I completed a post graduate diploma in Veterinary Physiotherapy at Harper Adams University.
My aim is to provide the highest standard of veterinary physiotherapy using force-free, calm, and gentle methods. Specialising in horses, dogs, and cats, my mission is to combine expert clinical assessments and treatments with compassionate care underpinned by positive reinforcement. I value respect for each animal’s comfort and wellbeing, ensuring a stress-free experience that supports healing and performance.
Why a Career as a Vet Physio?
I have always been obsessed with animals of all shapes and sizes, and the dream was to be able to make my day job something that would help animals. My desire and decision to become a veterinary physiotherapist came when a family cat got hit by a car and shattered his pelvis, dislocated one of his hindlimbs and was in an all-round bad way. He underwent multiple surgeries and had what seemed like endless medication. What he never had was any kind of physiotherapy, as a result he never really regained proper use of his hind limbs and mainly dragged himself around when he wanted to jump up on furniture or just be a cat. In the end he stopped toileting because, I believe, he was weak and sore in his hindlimbs and couldn’t hold himself comfortably to go to the toilet. He was constantly getting urinary infections and not having bowel movements. This, mixed with the recent diagnosis I had received of my horse having kissing spine (Overriding dorsal spinous processes) and facet joint arthritis, pushed me to seek out a career in Veterinary Physiotherapy. I was thrilled when I discovered I could do just that.
Why The Positive Vet Physio?
I have trained animals with positive reinforcement since I did my National Diploma in Animal Care and we trained chickens to stand on different objects. I trained my beautiful labrador using positive reinforcement and he and I just had so much fun. I had always wondered if the same could be done with horses and had wanted to learn how since I was a teenager. I’ve had a horse and then horses since I was 13, but it wasn’t until I got my now gorgeous horse Voodoo that I stumbled across books and groups that used positive reinforcement with horse and became a way of training that made sense to me.
I started to learn the basics to see what, if anything I could teach Voodoo using positive reinforcement. The world that opened up to us was just incredible and although Voodoo was diagnosed with Kissing spine and facet joint arthritis, it didn’t stop us from having the most fun learning how to walk through a scary fly curtain, line up at a mounting block on voice cue, pick up a hula hoop and bring it to me and just dance together.
So, when I started my post graduate in veterinary physiotherapy I soon started to look at how I could use positive reinforcement in the exercises Voodoo needed to do to make him strong. We played around and enjoyed the journey and soon Voodoo had learnt how to lift his back and core muscles on cue, how to bring his hindquarters to me when asked. And so The Positive Vet Physio was born. The possibilities are just endless. I am so passionate about positive reinforcement for all my client animals, but particularly in spreading the message about positive reinforcement with horses and how amazing it is not only to teach your horse how to use and strengthen their body autonomously but to truly deepen your connection to your horse.
