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Tips blog posts focus on teaching the key insights to using dog braces successfully. Professionals and Pet Parents alike will love learning these tips.

Getting Started

Tech Tips, Custom Brace Break-In Schedule

Just like “Breaking-in” a new shoe, it takes some time to get a dog used to wearing a custom wrist, ankle, or knee brace. When I first fit a brace I always go over the “Break-In Schedule”. By following this schedule your pet can quickly be wearing the brace 8

Close up of a Hero hock brace for an Achilles tendon tear in dogs

Dog Ankle Brace

Hero Braces Achilles Tendon Protocol - Conservative Management

Using a Tarsal Brace with Graduated Articulation Most would agree that as practitioners we need to protect the Achilles tendon injury/repair early on and then slowly load the Achilles Tendon over time. That said, it is difficult to find a consensus on how to implement these needs. Below is

Veterinarian hold up a cast for a custom dog brace

Bracing Made Simple

4 Tips - The Perfect Dog Brace Cast

Creating the perfect Casting can be summed up in four essential tips. Position. Tight. High. Criss-Cross. Understand each to make yourself the Casting superstar for Custom Orthotics! Let’s be clear on what “Casting” means in this article. Old school casts meant a kid with a broken arm had white

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7 Steps to Make a Rational Medical Decision for Your Dog

As pet parents eventually we all have to make a decision for a loved one that cannot talk to us. They cannot tell us what they want. How are we supposed to know? Often times the stress of the situation is compounded with other things happening in our life. With

Dog smelling a cast for a custom leg brace

Casting

The Casting/Impression, “As easy as Wrapping a Bandage?!”

Does the Custom Orthotic Casting Process Intimidate You? If you really think about it, the impression process isn't much different than wrapping a bandage. We find vet nurses excel at the process in the CE courses we teach! Check out a video of our CE course at the bottom of

Veterinarian smiling at a dog while fitting a Hero leg brace

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