PT, MSc PhD

Anna is a physiotherapist working in veterinary physiotherapy. She is based at the Helsinki University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, where she is involved both in clinical work and in research. Anna holds a PgDip/MSc Veterinary Physiotherapy from the Royal Veterinary College in London and she has completed her PhD at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki in 2018 on the topic “Evaluation of epaxial muscle structure in dogs with spinal disease.” She is the principal investigator for the Finnish Agility Study that investigates training and competition routines, injuries and jumping biomechanics in agility dogs and for a project investigating clinical significance of the lumbosacral transitional vertebra in herding type dogs. Her special research interests are back muscle structure and function in dogs with spinal disease, the increasing physical demands in agility and the welfare of working and sporting dogs.