Stresses, strains and traumatic injuries, illness, wearing collars and harnesses, gait abnormalities, being over-weight or unfit, older dogs with arthritis are common causes of back pain and musculoskeletal problems in household dogs. However, more commonly affected are performance dogs e.g. agility, racing, working or country sports as their bodies are placed under that much more physiological stress. We use a similar holistic body treatment that we do for the horse utilising a range of different therapies depending on the dogs individual requirements.