Just like us humans, pets can greatly benefit from rehabilitation as they endure or recover from joint, muscle trauma, and surgery. At our facility rehabilitation is seen as an essential tool for reducing pain and inflammation, while improving mobility and function. Rehabilitation is also offered for regaining or improving muscle strength based on your pet’s needs.
Initial Rehabilitation Consultation: $135
The initial evaluation is scheduled after receiving a referral from your Veterinarian or Veterinary Specialists. This consultation is about 60-75 minutes.
Our Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner will thoroughly assess your pet’s gait, joint mobility, range of motion, proprioception, and muscle mass. Our CCRP will create an effective treatment plan after consulting with you and your Veterinarian. Weekly sessions, length of rehab plan, and a personalized home exercise program will discussed during this session.
Sessions will include a multi-modal approach based on evaluation and the condition being treated.
- Soft tissue Injury
- Fracture Repair
- CCL tear, Conservative Management
- CCL tear, Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy (TPLO), Lateral Suture Repair
- Neurologic, IVDD
- Degenerative Myelopathy
- Hip and Elbow Dysplasia
- Iliopsoas Strains
- Geriatric Support, Arthritis
- Weight Management
- Hydrotherapy
- Therapeutic Exercise
- Land Treadmill
- Range of motion and massage
- Cold and Heat Therapy
- Electrical Stimulation (NMES, TENS)
- Therapeutic Ultrasound
- Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF)
Electrodes are applied over the area being treated to provide muscle strengthening or help with pain control.
Therapeutic ultrasound uses sound waves to create a deep heat that penetrates into soft tissue. Ultrasound therapy helps increase circulation, decrease tendon and ligament inflammation, increase soft tissue mobility, and decrease pain.
PEMF therapy is a non-invasive method to treat a variety of pathologies by delivering electric and magnetic fields to tissues via inductive coils. Inflammation, arthritis, pain, edema, bone fractures, and chronic wounds are often treated with PEMF devices.
Massage is the therapeutic application of hands-on tissue techniques to the voluntary muscle system. Massage therapy helps in increasing circulation, enhancing muscle tone, promoting healing, and increasing range of motion.
Geriatric Dogs
Similar to humans, aging pets often have mobility and range of motion issues. For geriatric dogs, rehabilitation goals include, maintaining or improving range of motion, maintaining or improving strength, pain control, and promoting psychological well-being. Geriatric dogs often have secondary conditions that impact treatment. Implementing a low-stress physical rehabilitation program can improve your pet's quality of life and maximize health benefits.
Obese Dogs
Dogs that have excess weight have a devastating effect on their health, functional mobility, and longevity. Increased weight in dogs can often exacerbate other conditions. In dogs, osteoarthritis is one of the most common disorders seen with obesity. The increase stress on joints and soft tissues can cause instability and inflammation. A rehabilitation weight loss program is tailored to your dogs current ability.
If your dog does not have underlying health conditions and weight loss is your primary goal, check out our conditioning swims.