My name is Dr. Silke Meermann; I am a small animal veterinarian in Bergkamen, Germany.
After having graduated from Vet School in 2002, curiosity made me sign up for Veterinary Chiropractic with the former European Academy for Veterinary Chiropractic in 2004. In 2005 I completed both the EAVC and the IVCA-exams and have been an IVCA-member ever since.
The way Chiropractic – and also Osteopathy and Physiotherapy – understand health and well being really has changed my life: Looking at things from a functional perspective instead of looking for names and diagnoses that tie an individual down to a disease or syndrome, really opened up my mind.
As I have always been a „dog-person“, I took a small animal Physiotherapy Training and a Training in Structural Canine Osteopathy after that. At the same time I tried to learn as much as possible about different dog sports and behavioral training issues.
This is where I met Christiane Gräff, a Human Physiotherapist and Osteopath with Special Training in Sports Physiotherapy – also dedicated to dogs.
In countless talks and sessions we tried to combine our knowledge and fantasy – me coming from the Veterinary and Chiropractic Background – Christiane coming from the Human and Physiotherapeutic and Osteopathic side – to come up with osteopathic treatment techniques for dogs – and then put that together into our first book („Osteopathie bei Hunden“). The book is available as a hardcover textbook in German, it has also been translated into Spanish (Osteopatía en el perro).
https://www.ulmer.de/usd-7118525/osteopathie-bei-hunden-.html
As we saw – and still see – a lot of problems in connection with certain types of dog sports and the way dogs are trained, a couple of years later we felt the strong need for another Textbook on Sport Physiotherapy for dogs – this is how we came up with our second book („Sportphysiotherapie für Hunde“). It is also available as a hardcover textbook as well as an e-book.
https://shop.thieme.de/Sportphysiotherapie-fuer-Hunde/9783132058712
