POINTS EAST WEST VETERINARY SERVICES
Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Specialty Practice
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
Peer Reviewed Publications
Lane, D. M., & Hill, S. A. (2016a). Effectiveness of combined acupuncture and manual therapy relative to no treatment for canine musculoskeletal pain. The Canadian Veterinary Journal, 57(4), 407–414.
Lane, D. M., & Hill, S. A. (2016b). Pressure algometry measurement of canine muscular pain near the thoracolumbar junction: evaluation of a modified technique. Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, 43(2), 227–234.
https://doi.org/10.1111/vaa.12308Lane, D. M., Hill, S. A., Huntingford, J. L., Lafuente, P., Wall, R., & Jones, K. A. (2015). Effectiveness of slow motion video compared to real time video in improving the accuracy and consistency of subjective gait analysis in dogs. Open Veterinary Journal, 5(2), 158–165.
Lane, D. M., & Hill, S. A. (2019). Lower back pain: positing a novel cause and treatment for canine urethral sphincter mechanism incompetency, Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy, Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, 61 (Suppl 1):6
Lane, D. M., Schiller, T. (2020). Technique description: Incisionless ultrasound-assisted biceps tenotomy in dogs. Open Veterinary Journal, Vol. 10(4): 457–464.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ovj.v10i4.14Lane. D., Hill S. 2022, The relationship between urethral sphincter mechanism incompetency and lower back pain: Positing a novel treatment for urinary incontinence in dogs. Open Veterinary Journal, Vol. 12 No. 1, DOI: 10.5455/OVJ.2022.v12.i1.13
Lane D., Pfeil DV, Kowaleski MP. Synthesis of surgeon and rehabilitation therapist treatment methods of bicipital tenosynovitis in dogs allows development of an initial consensus therapeutic protocol. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2023 Nov 1;262(2):1-8. doi: 10.2460/javma.23.08.0461. PMID: 37918103.
Bailey M., Lane D. Treatment of lower back pain to resolve symptoms of canine urethral sphincter mechanism incontinence, Open Veterinary Journal, (2025), Vol. 15(7): 3366-3368, DOI: 10.5455/OVJ.2025.v15.i7.49
Lane D., Pfeil DV., Kuhn K., Hoey S., Hill S., Pilot Study on Utilizing Bone Graft Material Acquired as a Byproduct of Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy
Textbook Chapters
Chapter #6: Horses, Saddles & Riders, Malalignment Syndrome, Churchill Livingstone, 2013
Chapter #10: Read My Hips, Friesen Press, 2020
Co-author, Chapter 12, Forelimb Lameness, In: Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Ed. Chris Zink & Janet Van Dyke Eds., 2025
Co-author, Chapter 14, Hindlimb Lameness, In: Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Ed. Chris Zink & Janet Van Dyke Eds., 2025
Lane, D., Chapter 9, Multimodal Treatment of Canine Osteoarthritis, In: Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, 3rd Ed. Chris Zink & Janet Van Dyke Eds., 2025
Veterinary Articles
Canine Lameness – West Coast Veterinarian, No 26, March 2017
A Multimodal Approach to Treating Osteoarthritis in Dogs - West Coast Veterinarian, No 24, Sept 2016
Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy - Pet Connection Magazine, Sept 2015
Veterinary Regenerative Medicine - Pet Connection Magazine, Feb 2015
Veterinary Chiropractic Medicine - West Coast Veterinarian, No 10, March 2013
Equine Chiropractic, Pacific & Prairie Horse Journal, Vol XVII, No. 8, 2008
Prepucial Prolapse in an Alpaca - Canadian Veterinary Journal, Vol 40, No4, 1999
Can I Catch Something From My Pet, Family Health Magazine, Volume 14, No.2, 1998, reprinted Volume 28, No. 3, 2012
Don’t cut that – it might be important: Rethinking how we treat biceps tendon disease, West Coast Veterinarian, No. 41, Dec 2020
Iliopsoas injuries in dogs, West Coast Veterinarian, No. 39, June 2020
Regenerative Medicine Overview, West Coast Veterinarian, No. 30, March 2018
Other Magazine Articles
Minimum Impact Camping Techniques, Explore Magazine, issue 57, Oct/Nov 1992
Wilderness Shopping: Removing the Landscape, Explore Magazine issue 50, Spring 1991
Walking Softly, Earthkeeper Magazine, Vol 1, No 3, 1991
Published works (non-peer reviewed)
West Coast Veterinarian – Treating biceps brachii tendinopathy
West Coast Veterinarian – Treating iliopsoas tendinopathy
International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants Journal – Spay and neuter surgery’s effects on orthopedic disease, behaviour, and general health in dogs
West Coast Veterinarian – Overview of Regenerative Medicine
West Coast Veterinarian – Overview of Veterinary Sports Medicine
West Coast Veterinarian – Multimodal Treatment of Canine Osteoarthritis
Pet Connection Magazine – An overview of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (two part article)
Pet Connection Magazine – Current Options in Regenerative Medicine
West Coast Veterinarian – Veterinary Chiropractic Medicine
Pacific and Prairie Horse Journal – Equine Chiropractic Medicine
Veterinary Lectures
CVMA/CVBC Annual Conference (Vancouver BC, Nov 2017): 3 hour presentation on an overview of Canine Sports Medicine, and how to improve a veterinarian’s musculoskeletal examination skills.
IAVRPT 2018 conference abstracts: Lower back pain: positing a novel cause and treatment for canine urethral sphincter mechanism incompetency
VMX Conference (Orlando Florida, Jan 2019): Four lectures on diagnosing and treating canine back pain.
Antech Imaging Webinar (May 2019): A multimodal approach to treating arthritis
Glasgow Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Glasgow Scotland, Dec 2019): Introduction to Canine Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation
Antech Imaging Webinar (May 2020): A sports medicine approach to….
CVMA/CVBC Annual Conference (Vancouver BC, Nov 2023): 3 hour presentation on geriatric medicine and musculoskeletal disease
