Work With Emma
Clinical expertise, rehabilitation understanding and professional education built around the canine athlete and companion dog alike
Emma’s work combines over two decades of clinical experience with a deep understanding of canine movement, rehabilitation, performance and wellbeing.
From hands-on chiropractic care through to international lecturing and professional teaching, her approach is grounded in practical application, collaborative thinking and helping both dogs and professionals achieve better long-term outcomes.
How Emma Works
Clinical Care & Rehabilitation
Whether your dog is recovering from surgery, managing arthritis, or struggling with mobility, she's here to help them feel like themselves again. Using a whole-dog approach alongside therapies like Shockwave and Laser, she supports every stage — from first injury through to full recovery and beyond.
Performance & Sporting Dogs
Built for the dogs who live life at full speed. She works alongside handlers and owners to support movement, build strength, and protect long-term health — keeping agility, working, and high-performance dogs performing at their very best for longer.
Professional Collaboration
Complex cases need a team behind them. She works closely with vets, rehabilitation specialists, and other professionals — sharing knowledge, aligning care plans, and always keeping your dog's best possible outcome at the centre of every decision.
Education, Speaking & Teaching
Knowledge shared is care improved. She delivers lectures, workshops, and professional education across canine rehabilitation, chiropractic, and performance wellbeing — bringing clarity, depth, and practical insight to help the wider profession continually grow.
Canine Chiropractic
Supporting movement, comfort and function through a whole-dog approach
Emma works with dogs of all ages, breeds and activity levels, from much-loved family pets through to agility, sporting and working dogs performing at elite level.
Every dog is assessed individually, taking into account movement patterns, posture, compensation, strength, behaviour, lifestyle and performance demands.
Rather than simply focusing on one isolated symptom or area, Emma looks at how the body is functioning as a whole and how the nervous system, joints, muscles and movement patterns interact together.
Assessment may include:
Movement observation and gait assessment
Palpation of joints and soft tissues
Functional movement testing
Neurological and biomechanical assessment
Performance and conditioning considerations
Review of previous veterinary history and rehabilitation plans
Treatment is tailored to the individual dog and may incorporate chiropractic adjustments, rehabilitation principles, movement advice and additional supportive modalities where appropriate.
Emma also works closely alongside veterinary professionals and rehabilitation practitioners when managing more complex or long-term cases.
Her clinical focus includes:
Mobility and movement concerns
Rehabilitation and recovery support
Performance and sporting dogs
Osteoarthritis and age-related change
Injury prevention and maintenance
Functional movement and strength support
The aim is always to help dogs move more comfortably, recover more effectively and maintain the best possible quality of life for the role they play, whether that is competing internationally or enjoying everyday family life.
Testimonials
Professional Recognition
Ms. Fretwell lectures for us with confidence on various topics relating to human and animal chiropractic principles. She has become a very valuable and reliable teacher on our courses, teaching both introductory and specialty topics.
She brings preparedness to her teaching, combined with enthusiasm and clinical practicality. Her ability to explain concepts in several different ways when necessary makes the quality of her teaching exceptional.
Dr Donald Moffatt, IAVC
Senior Markets Architect
Teaching & Lecturing
Sharing knowledge through practical, experience-led education
Alongside clinical practice, Emma has spent many years teaching and lecturing within the animal chiropractic and rehabilitation profession.
Since 2006, she has taught the practical components of the International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic (IAVC) courses across the UK, Germany and the United States, working with both chiropractors and veterinary professionals.
Her teaching combines clinical reasoning, biomechanics, neurology and practical application, helping students bridge the gap between theory and real-world case management.
Emma is particularly recognised for her ability to explain complex concepts in a clear, accessible and clinically relevant way, adapting her teaching style to suit varying professional backgrounds and experience levels.
Her areas of teaching and speaking include:
Animal chiropractic principles
Canine biomechanics and movement
Neurology and rehabilitation
Performance and sporting dog wellbeing
Warm-up and injury prevention
Functional movement and conditioning
Integrating chiropractic into multidisciplinary care
Canine welfare and long-term wellbeing
Over the years, Emma has lectured internationally for professional organisations, educational programmes and canine events, alongside delivering workshops and seminars for dog owners, trainers and sporting communities.
Her work increasingly focuses on bringing together neurology, rehabilitation and chiropractic understanding in a progressive, forward-thinking way that supports both clinical development and better patient outcomes.
Looking for support, guidance or collaboration?
Whether you are seeking clinical support for your dog, professional collaboration, speaking opportunities or educational input, Emma would love to hear from you.