Creating facts instead of fishing in the dark
Once upon a time, LupoGait® was only a vision of the progressive Swiss veterinarian Dr. med. vet. Patrick Blättler Monnier – a vision that, with the help of his research efforts and the energetic commitment of internal staff and external experts, became reality.
Patrick Blättler Monnier
The Swiss veterinarian Dr. med. vet. Patrick Blättler Monnier saw himself and his colleagues repeatedly confronted with the problem of being able to subjectively recognise movement abnormalities of a non-structural nature in dogs, but not objectively prove them.
The deep desire to find a solution to this problem motivated the current gait specialist to specialise in prophylactic, and since 2015, orthopaedically kinematically controlled, construction of puppies.
In this context, he has developed a comprehensive prophylactic system that covers the entire development of the dog from puppy to young and adult dog (including the orientations to sport and working dogs), but also considers the old and geriatric dogs.
If the focus of Patrick Blättler Monnier’s work with regard to the older dogs lies primarily in the reduction of pain, which is the central stress factor in the dog’s body and can thus negatively influence the immune system as well as the metabolism, with the younger dogs he is primarily concerned with the controlled build-up during growth and the early recognition of possible instability in the hip and elbow joints in order to enable a reduction of their consequences.
To initially be able to offer this service in his own practice, Dr. Blättler Monnier developed LupoGait® in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland – a successful and revolutionary product that is now being further optimised and marketed by the company 4Dvets so that this groundbreaking mobile gait diagnostic system is not just reserved for the inventor and his patients, but can help therapists, dog owners and dogs worldwide.
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