My story begins in the summer of 1999 with this guy, Dr. Bob Taylor. You may recognize him from the famed Emergency Vets show on Animal Planet.
I was a new Physical Therapist graduate with a passion for animals and he was looking to start a physical therapy department. I learned of the 1st International Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy conference at the veterinary school in Corvallis, OR.
Having just graduated from North Georgia College's Physical Therapy program, I was looking for a way to save some money and volunteered to help with registration to reduce my expenses. Walking down the sidewalk, I met Dr. Bob, who pointed me in the right direction towards the conference venue. It was there that I learned I CAN work with dogs, my lifelong dream, and began to chase my passion.
Dr. Taylor called after the conference. I flew to Denver to interview with him and the team at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital and found myself moving to Colorado in February of 2000. And the rest, they say, is history...
(Lonetree Ranch, Wyoming - July 2023)
Owner & Founder
Caroline (Carrie) Adrian
PT, PhD (Canine Biomechanics), tCPT™ (Canine Physical Therapist), Fellow, IAVRPT
Dr. Adrian is the owner and founder of CanineIQ, the first online educational platform and on-site residency for post-graduate physical therapists and student physical therapists only.
Carrie was voted as the 2021 Veterinary Rehabilitation Therapist of the Year by her peers in the International Association of Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy (IAVRPT).
Carrie received her Biology degree from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA; her MSPT degree from North Georgia College; and her PhD with a specialty in canine biomechanics from Colorado State University. She contributed to the development of the University of Tennessee’s canine rehabilitation certification program, serving as faculty until 2004.
Carrie has participated in many national and international continuing education seminars on animal rehabilitation, both as a participant and lecturer, since 1998.
She is a contributor to several textbooks on canine rehabilitation and is the past Vice President for the Animal Physical Therapy Special Interest Group (SIG) under the Academy of Orthopaedics in the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA).
Carrie was the national Director of Rehabilitation Services for VCA Animal Hospitals (2023), a position she created within VCA in 2007; Director of the Physical Therapy Department at VCA Veterinary Specialists of Northern Colorado in Loveland, CO for 11 years; and Director, Physical Therapy services at Alameda Veterinary Hospital in Denver, CO since 2000, as the first full-time physical therapist in a private veterinary hospital in the country. She provided pro-bono physical therapy services to the Denver Zoo and has the honor and privilege to assist the Loveland Police Department on selection of new police dogs for their Canine Unit. She has worked with the police department canine teams for over 11 years, keeping their canine partners in top working shape.  In addition to her commitment to teaching the next generation of canine (and feline) physical therapists through CanineIQ, she is also a private research consultant for Nutramax Laboratories in Lancaster, South Carolina.
See my CVAdvisory Board
Amie Lamoreaux Hesbach
PT, DPT, MS, NCPT, CCRP, CCRT, CKTP, tCPT™ (Canine Physical Therapist)
Amie Lamoreaux Hesbach is a doctor of physical therapy with over twenty-five years of experience with human patients and over twenty with small animal patients. She has expertise and experience in the application of manual therapy and facilitation techniques (including PNF and IASTM), corrective functional exercise training, and proprioceptive and neuromuscular retraining in orthopaedic, athletic, and neurologic patients. She has a clinical interest in the application of physical therapy and rehabilitation techniques to maximize the potential for NeuroPlasticity and recovery in her patients.
Dr. Hesbach was educated at the University of Montana (DPT, Physical Therapy), the Medical College of Virginia (MS, Physical Therapy), and Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (BS, Biology). She completed a post-graduate NeuroRehabilitation residency in Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) at the Kaiser Foundation Rehabilitation Center in Vallejo, California.Â
Dr. Hesbach is certified in Canine Rehabilitation through both the University of Tennessee and the Canine Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. Hesbach has published and lectured on both human and animal rehabilitation in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, and Japan and continues to offer webinars and clinical and educational coaching to pet parents and pet physical therapy and rehabilitation colleagues online.
Dr. Hesbach is a past president of the Animal Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy Special Interest Group of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). She owns and operates EmpowerPhysio, a mobile pet physical therapy and rehabilitation practice near Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Hesbach was honored with the award of the IAVRPT Animal Rehabilitation Practitioner of the Year in 2022.
Lin McGonigle
MSPT, LVT, tCPT™ (Canine Physical Therapist)
Lin earned a BS in Animal Science from Cornell University, a Master’s degree in Physical Therapy from Acadia University, and an Associates degree in Veterinary Technology from SUNY Delhi.
Lin has 29 years of human Physical Therapy experience in acute care, pediatrics and home health. She combine her passion for physical therapy and animals to  provide rehabilitation services to dogs, horses, wildlife and farm animals for 30 years, since 1996. Ms. McGonagle currently owns Animal Performance & Therapy Center, a private practice focusing on Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation. She has trained in agility, tracking and fieldwork with her dogs.
Lin contributed to the following books:  “Small Animal Surgery Secrets”, “Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy”, and is co-author of “Accelerate Canine Performance Through Conditioning”. She presented at the International Symposium for Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy in Veterinary Medicine, Tufts Animal Expo, APTA Combined Sections, STARR, and Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Lin was active at the state, national and interational level promoting animal physical therapy. She was a founding member and first President of the Animal Physical Therapy Special Interest Group under the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physiacal Therapy Association. She served as the New York State Liason to the APTA ARSIG for several years. In addition, she served on the International Association of Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Board and represented the United States within the World Confederation of Physical Therapy Sub-group in Animal Physical Therapy.
Cheryl Riegger-Krugh
PT, BSPT, MS, ScD
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Dr. Riegger-Krugh has studied and taught human anatomy, biomechanics and movement analysis for 40 years in 7 universities. She practiced physical therapy for humans in the clinic for two years full-time and intermittently part-time over a span of 34 years. She contributes a foundation in these areas to apply to and learn the same content in canines.
Cheryl co-authored the 1st and 2nd Basic Science for Animal Physical Therapy: Canine independent study courses: Forelimb, Hindlimb, and Spine through the Animal Physical Therapy Special Interest Group (SIG), Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy (AOPT) of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). She co-authored a chapter on Canine Anatomy in the 1st and 2nd Editions of Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy.
Cheryl was a past President of the Animal Rehabilitation Special Interest Group (ARSIG) of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). She has presented at several educational seminars on animal rehabilitation, specifically canine anatomy, biomechanics, and movement analysis.
Cheryl completed her: 1) Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH; 2) Master of Science degree, a post-graduate degree in physical therapy, from Boston University in Boston, MA, and 3) Doctor of Science degree in Applied Anatomy and Physiology, specializing in anatomy and biomechanics, from Boston, University in Boston, MA. She is an Affiliate Faculty Member of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University and served as PhD dissertation committee member for Caroline Adrian PT, PhD (Canine Biomechanics), CPT, FIAVRPT. She is a co-author of publications based on the research of Dr. Adrian and canine functional mobility.
In 2006-2007, Cheryl was part of a team effort to change the Colorado Physical Therapy Practice Act to allow physical therapists, who demonstrated specific competencies and had veterinary clearance, to treat animals.
