Hydrotherapy for Dogs: How Water Can Speed Up Healing

By Diana Swinford, CVT CCRP Hydrotherapy, or water therapy, is a powerful rehabilitation technique that leverages the natural properties of water to aid in the recovery and overall well-being of dogs. Whether your dog is recovering from surgery, managing a chronic condition, or simply needs a low-impact way to stay active, hydrotherapy can offer significant [...]

Common Injuries in Dogs and How Rehab Can Help

by Diana Swinford, CVT CCRP Dogs, like humans, are susceptible to a variety of injuries that can affect their mobility, comfort, and overall quality of life. Whether your dog is an energetic puppy, a high-performing athlete, or a laid-back senior, injuries can happen unexpectedly. Canine rehabilitation offers a safe and effective way to support recovery [...]

What is Canine Rehabilitation? Benefits Beyond Recovery

By Diana Swinford, CVT CCRP Canine rehabilitation, often referred to as physical therapy for dogs, is a specialized field focused on helping dogs recover from injuries, surgeries, and various medical conditions. Just like in human physical therapy, canine rehabilitation uses a combination of exercises, therapies, and techniques to improve a dog's strength, mobility, and overall [...]

Regain Mobility: Expert lameness treatments

When your pet is limping that indicates pain, weakness, and/or a structural problem affecting the leg’s range of motion. Limping is a common sign of bone and joint disease, but it also occurs with muscle and nerve injuries making it a nonspecific sign for orthopedic and neurologic conditions. Determining If There Is Lameness History [...]

Shockwave Therapy for Your Pet

Randy Aronson, VMD, CCRT, CVA What is Acoustic Pressure Wave Therapy? A non-invasive treatment solution using high-peak sound waves (acoustic pulses) that interact with the tissues of the body to provide fast pain relief and restore mobility and function. This therapy is ideal to accelerate the recovery process of a wide variety of sub-acute and [...]

Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMFs)

By Diana Pacheco, CVT CCRP What is PEMFs? PEMFs is a non-invasive pain-relieving, inflammation-reducing treatment that can be used in conjunction with oral medication, physical rehabilitation treatment, or singularly to help your pet. PEMFs therapeutic purpose is to enhance the production of bone, accelerate tissue healing and pain control.* The PEMF treatment delivers a microcurrent [...]

What is Laser Therapy?

By Diana Pacheco, CVT CCRP Laser therapy is the use of specific wavelengths of light to create therapeutic effects. These effects include improved healing time, pain reduction, increased circulation, and decreased swelling. Laser therapy is a non-invasive, drug-free treatment option. Laser therapy is often used with other forms of integrative therapies including physical rehabilitation therapy [...]

Underwater Treadmill

By Diana Pacheco, CVT CCRP The underwater treadmill (UWTM) successfully treats many musculoskeletal conditions. It provides safe, controlled environment for gait analysis, exercise, stretching, muscle building, and neuromuscular stimulation. The chamber is dry as the animal walks into it with our expert technician. Warm water is then filled to the desired height to provide buoyancy, [...]

How Can Massage Benefit My Pet?

By Elizabeth Jobe, DVM, CCRP, cVMA Massage is an important key in physical rehabilitation for animals. Often when animals have an injury, the body compensates and uses the soft tissues and muscles differently than how they normally function. This creates compensatory muscle soreness and trigger points (knots) that need attention. Our certified rehabilitation practitioner at [...]

Therapeutic Exercises for Pets

By Elizabeth Jobe, DVM, CCRP, cVMA Therapeutic exercise is a physical therapy intervention encompassing a broad range of activities designed to restore or improve musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary and/or neurologic function. Some form of therapeutic exercise is indicated in every physical therapy case. The goals of therapeutic exercises are to improve active pain-free range of motion and [...]

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