STAAR CONFERENCE

The most hands-on conference in veterinary rehabilitation, mobility, and fitness

After 13 Successful US Conferences,
STAAR is Now Coming to the UK

Registration Now Open

Monday 17th May to Thursday 20th May 2027

Radisson Red Hotel, London Heathrow

Book your wet labs

Clinical confidence isn't built by watching. It's built by doing.

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Why STAAR?

“There’s a difference between hearing about a technique and having the opportunity to see it, feel it, ask questions, and work through it with an experienced instructor and a dog in front of you.

That’s what excites me most about bringing STAAR to the UK. We’re bringing veterinarians, rehab and allied professionals, and lots of dogs together with exceptional educators around one shared goal: Better outcomes for dogs comes through hands-on education and a multidisciplinary approach. These are ideas and skills you take home and use the very next day. That’s what STAAR is all about – and I hope you’ll join us.”

Laura Hackett, co-founder, CEO, STAAR UK
Founder, CEO, Apollo Animal Physiotherapy + Hydrotherapy

Leading UK & International Educators.
Master Skills with Hands-On Instruction.

Meet our Faculty:

  • Dr James Guthrie
    BVM&S MBA CertAVP(GSAS) PgCertVBM CCRT DipECVS DipACVSMR  DipECVSMR MAcadMEd FRSB FRSA FRCVS 
  • Dr Lowri Davies
    BVSc, Dip ACVSMR, MRCVS, Cert Vet Ac (IVAS), CCRP
  • Dr Jane Oatley
    MA VetMB CertSAO CCRT MRCVS
  • Dr Deb Torraca
    DPT, MSPT, Diplomat ABPTS, CCRP, CCMT Fellow IAVRPT
  • Elena Saltis
    BSc, NZPT, APA, CCRT
  • Dr Amie Lamoreaux Hesbach
    PT, DPT, MS, CCRP, CCRT
  • Felicity Parris
    BSc (Hons) Phys, Post Grad Dip VetPhys, ACPAT Cat A, MCSP Chartered Physiotherapist, Veterinary Physiotherapist, Level 4 Canine Hydrotherapist 

See Some of our Labs:

Mulligan Joint Mobilisations

Advanced CCL Rehabilitation

Pelvis & SI joint Assessment and Rehabilitation

Advanced Shoulder Assessment + Rehab

Neuroplasticity / Neuro-Facilitation

This isn't a programme designed to give you more information. It's designed to make you better at using it.

STAAR - Symposium on therapeutic advances in animal rehabilitation

After 13 STAAR Canine conferences in the United States, the small-group, hands-on learning experience that has defined STAAR is coming to the UK for the very first time.

Learn from exceptional clinicians. Practise with real dogs. Develop skills you can take straight back into practice.

What makes STAAR unique?

Some clinical skills can’t be learned from a lecture.

You can’t master palpation by watching.
You can’t refine joint mobilisation by listening.
You can’t develop clinical confidence from a slide deck.

STAAR brings experienced instructors, real dogs and small groups together so you can learn it, practise it and get feedback while you’re doing it.

Come for the education. Leave with the skills.