about DR. MARIE

SPEAKER, EDUCATOR & VETERINARIAN FOCUSED ON PHYSICAL HEALTH

The founder of Help Spot Run is Dr. Marie Bartling. She built this company to share information about how to see and treat painful conditions in animals using real = every day great success stories.

Dr. Marie loves to share information with other professionals and dog and cat lovers about how to keep our pets pain free and living their best active lives.  

Want to know something?

it all started with a dog who sat funny.

I have had great, great pet owners as clients. Over the years we have found many solvable pain problems together, and over time people started to bring me dogs who sat or acted funny but weren’t actually limping.

Guess what?! 99% of the time - when a dog can’t sit or lay comfortably there is something we need address to prevent injury and keep living well physically as young, adult and even senior dogs.

OK now that you have looked at the posture gallery pics - check out what we can see on video!

With educated eyes, you can help recognize pain in animals and get ahead of it.

This video is the heart of evaluating a dog for comfort. 

Any dog should be able to get up and down through these phases with ease. This guy can do it, with some movements that are not a strong as others but with 90% capability - he has been practicing. In Dr. Marie’s classes, you will see strong examples of other dogs with differences.

PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER/PROVIDER OF CONTINUING EDUCATION

HIRE DR. MARIE TO TALK WITH YOUR TEAM!

Dog trainers, Veterinarians, Veterinary staff members – Do you get frustrated by lameness? Do you wish you could do more to treat arthritis in our pets? 

I will teach you how to effectively and efficiently care for animals with arthritis or injury related mobility problems.

Docs - don’t have time to train your techs to help you take rads and learn to talk about OA? They can completely change the physical health and quality of life for your patients.

Think about how we expect human health providers to be trained and what they can do … ever met a great a nurse practitioner? I know you have techs who are smart, capable, and caring.

Topics

  • Dogs can cats show pain in subtle ways.

    They change their behavior – they become timid, protective, even grumpy about interacting with other dogs and with people.

    They change their posture and movement, I can teach you to see them when they are sitting funny in an effort to be more comfortable.

  • Make your clinical practice easier and optimal for your patients

    • Learn to do low stress exams, radiographic positioning

  • Learn how to level up your OA patient care

    • Online classes in pain management strategy

    • In person shadow opportunity

    • Events: joint injection wet lab

Details

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Dr. Marie loves to share information with other professionals and invested dog and cat lovers about how to keep our pets pain free and living their best active lives.

Watch her You Tube Channel or listen to her Podcast for reviews of research papers about specific medications, supplements, treatments, technology and physical exercises that are part of the physical health process that is essential to recovery from painful disease like arthritis and tendonitis or for recovery from surgery or injury.

 

Check her Facebook and Instagram for the latest dog and cat physical recovery stories.

how it started

“I always knew that there was a special bond and communication that takes place between humans and animals.”

They enhance every part of our life in teaching us how to be the kind of people they seem to think we are.  It is my passion to help them live there most comfortable and fun life – with you.

I had a wild collection of pets growing up: dogs, cats, horses, birds, fish, guinea pigs, ferrets, rabbits, lizards, chinchillas, even a donkey!

I have been obsessed with communicating and training animals since I was very young.  I studies animals and languages in college and found my true creative work to be understanding what animals are trying to say when they are afraid, uncomfortable, relaxed, happy, and in trying to normalize that interaction and optimize health for the animals and their owners as a veterinarian.

I have always loved horses and began with a career working with them first, specializing body work with chiropractic and acupuncture and joint care (lameness).  I transitioned to mixed animal practice after my own injuries prevented me from doing full-time horse practice and evolved into a rehabilitation focused doctor for dogs and cats.

I now focus solely on: physical health plans

  • Pain management

  • Joint injections

  • Shockwave

  • Regenerative medicine: platelet rich plasma, stem cell therapy

  • Physical rehabilitation program design

  • Chiropractic care

  • Acupuncture

  • Nutrition: it is critical to control allergies and GI disease to control the pain system effectively

  • Puppy planning – note: this is a consult I can do online for anyone!

 

Education

Colorado State University

Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Bachelor Science – Microbiology

Veterinary Medical Acupuncturist

Colorado Veterinary Medical Association

Certified Animal Chiropractic Care Provider

Options for Animals College of Animal Chiropractic

Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner

Canine Rehab Institute

Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner

International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management

FUN FACTS about Marie

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She is a human loving, animal loving, outdoor adventurer and constant knowledge seeker.

02

She loves to take trips that include art, music, culture, outdoor hikes and paddleboarding and that teach her something about humans, animals, and the world we live in.

03

She is a strong believer in self-discovery and understanding individual personalities of humans and animals.

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She sings in a classic rock band called The Rhythm Underground