Dr David Lane

Dr. Lane is one of a handful of veterinarians in the world to have earned specialty status in the field of canine sports medicine and rehabilitation therapy.

His research on the clinical effectiveness of combining chiropractic techniques with acupuncture therapy in dogs is the first of its kind. He was the first researcher to demonstrate the link between lower back pain and canine urinary incontinence; that treating back pain can reduce or eliminate symptoms in the majority of dogs. He also developed and published a minimally invasive surgical technique for resolving biceps tendon injury in dogs.

Current areas of interest include documenting success rates when using stem cells to repair partially torn tendons, and developing a treatment algorithm for addressing injury to the biceps tendon.

His work with sporting dogs has brought him to numerous regional and national events, as well as travelling with the national team to the World Agility Championships in Spain and the Netherlands. Although he was hired by the Canadian team to attend the championships in Denmark for 2020, this trip was ultimately cancelled due to COVID.

He is married to Lauren Fraser, a clinical animal behaviourist who works with cats, dogs, and horses experiencing behaviour problems. In his spare time he can be found skiing, mountain biking, white water kayaking, or recovering in the hot tub afterward.

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Dr. Carla Wilkie has completed certification programs in veterinary acupuncture, spinal manipulation (the veterinary equivalent of chiropractic) and rehabilitation therapy (the veterinary equivalent of physiotherapy). Over the last 10 years, her professional focus has been chronic pain management using medical, physical, and nutritional therapies to overcome mobility challenges, and to provide palliative care for arthritis and other chronic pain conditions.

Carla  lives in Squamish with her husband Peter Fritz with whom she adventures as a keen surfer, skier, paddler, and biker.

Jen Smith

Jen Smith leads the Therapeutic Exercise and Rehabilitation department of Points East West. She has been working in veterinary medicine for over 25 years as a veterinary technician in small animal practice, most of them with Dr. Lane. 

She worked for many years as an assistant in a human physiotherapy clinic prior to entering Thompson Rivers University Animal Health Technology program.  Her interests came full circle when she started taking courses in small animal massage at the Northwest School of Animal Massage. 

In 2013 she completed the maintenance, performance, and rehabilitation animal massage programs to become a qualified Small Animal Massage Practitioner and Manual Ligament Therapist.

Shay Cyr is a Registered Veterinary Technician (Thompson Rivers University Animal Health Technology program, 2013) who has been working alongside Dr. Lane for the last 7 years. Until recently, she has been hidden in the back, spearheading his surgical, regenerative medicine, and diagnostic imaging team. In recent months, as we prepared for the move to our new hospital, she has taken a more active role in client communications.