Neonatal Motor Development and Physiotherapy with Dr Heli Hyytiäinen
Thursday 24th April 2025 @ 19:00 HRS BST
Neonatal motor development and physiotherapy with Dr Heli Hyytiäinen, BSc (PT), MSc (Vet Physio), PhD
This webinar will offer information regarding the early motor development of healthy foals, with emphasis on their first 24 hours. Various observable factors of motor development, their timings and sequences are discussed. Understanding these milestones of normal development will help to detect the abnormal or delayed development and set expectations for rehabilitation of ailing foals. In addition, physiotherapy process and solutions in neonatal cases where either neurological or orthopaedical pathology affects the foal’s motor development, are presented.
For all attendees, CPD certificates available as well as a “view only” recording of the session with a 30 day access pass. There will also be a Q and A session with ample opportunity to post questions via our interactive Q&A panel.
Heli Hyytiäinen, BSc (PT), MSc (Vet Physio), PhD, Title of Docent
Heli graduated as physiotherapist in January 2000, specialized in animal physiotherapy 2003, graduated as Master of Science in Veterinary Physiotherapy 2012, and finalized her PhD in 2015. She has over twenty years of clinical experience in veterinary physiotherapy. In 2006 she started working at the University of Helsinki Veterinary Teaching hospital, where she started and further developed the hospital’s physiotherapy department. For over ten years she was a honorary lecturer for the Liverpool University Post Graduate Diploma / MSc in Veterinary Physiotherapy program as well as taught at the Finnish Animal Physiotherapy program. Currently she devotes her time to teaching and research at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Helsinki, and is the consulting physiotherapist for two equine hospitals.
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