My husband once convinced me to crawl up into a tree (actually a willow bush – but ‘tree’ sounds better) to look inside a magpie nest.  He had told me that looking into the nests of crows and magpies was always interesting because these birds liked to collect things.  As a kid, he and his brother would do this and had found bottle caps, pop tabs, shiny rocks, pieces of twine, plastic, and various other ‘treasures’ in the nests. 

 But what does this have to do with your animal rehab practice?  Well it actually ties in nicely with last week’s blog post about massage, manual therapy, and dry needling for neck pain.  I want to talk about ‘shiny object syndrome’.