Enhancing your pets’ comfort and quality of life, allowing you to cherish more special moments together.
Services
Physical Rehabilitation Therapy
Our rehabilitation sessions utilize a comprehensive, multimodal approach to pet care. We begin with a thorough initial consultation, featuring an in-depth musculoskeletal assessment, gait and postural analysis, and precise muscle and joint measurements. This data allows us to develop a therapy program customized specifically for your pet's unique needs. Subsequent sessions focus on targeted treatments to restore strength, improve proprioception, and alleviate pain—ensuring your pet reaches the recovery goals established by both you and our therapist.
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Laser therapy, land exercises, hydrotherapy, and a home exercise program are all included in our rehab sessions, if necessary for your pet and as long as they tolerate the treatment.
Sessions
Laser Therapy
Photobiomodulation TherapyÂ
Using a therapeutic dose of light - laser therapy delivers energy to tissue, which leads to a cellular response mediated by mitochondrial mechanisms that reduce pain and inflammation and speed healing. Laser therapy has many uses including:
Post-operatively
Treatment of soft tissue injuries (iliopsoas strain)
Part of a multimodal approach to pain control (neck and back pain), and management of degenerative myelopathy
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Laser therapy is included in rehab consults and sessions, or as individual treatments. For referral patients, an initial rehab consult is needed prior to creating a laser therapy protocol.
Hydrotherapy
We all know that water makes pets buoyant. This buoyancy allows them to reap the benefits of low impact exercise and reduce the weight on their joints.Â
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Water also provides resistance to movement which is helpful in strengthening and conditioning. Adjusting the height of the water will make this movement more or less difficult based on our patients needs. The speed of the treadmill can be adjusted to suit both large and small patients. This helps us with gait retraining.Â
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The underwater treadmill gets filled with warm water to the appropriate height based on the individual patient's size and body condition. The warmth of the water is soothing for sore joints as well!
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We offer hydrotherapy as part of their rehab program (if tolerated by the pet), or as individual treatment sessions. A referral form is not needed for clients wishing to have their pets only participate in hydrotherapy; however, the patient must do a small hydrotherapy consultation to confirm they are not injured.
Underwater Treadmill
VSMT
Veterinary Spinal Manipulation Therapy
Veterinary spinal manipulation therapy is a hands-on technique used to re-establish pain-free and correct range of motion in your pet, improving their mobility and overall wellness.  VSMT is performed by veterinarians who have completed an extensive course through the Veterinary Chiropractic Learning Center. Chiropractors can also complete this course to become certified Animal Chiropractors. Dr. Leah Wilhelm completed the Veterinary Chiropractic Learning Center’s two-hundred and twenty hour course to become certified in veterinary spinal manipulation therapy.
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VSMT is beneficial for pets with back or neck pain, mobility issues, and seniors.Â
Starting the rehab journey:
Step 1:
A referral is required by your veterinarian to our rehab department. This is needed to provide detailed information about your pet's case, and establish a team based approach between the owner, the pets regular veterinarian, and the rehab team.
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Once a referral form has been submitted, the rehab team will call the owner to set up an initial rehab consultation.
Step 3:
The initial consultation is approximately an hour long and includes an extensive musculoskeletal examination including muscle measurements, a discussion with the owner about current issues, what we believe would be a good rehab program for the pet, and outcomes that owners would like to see from the program.
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A rehab protocol is established and reviewed with the owner. Protocols include frequency of rehab sessions moving forward, and an outline of the therapeutic plan and rehab goals. A report will be sent to the owner and regular veterinarian.