Services: Rehabilitation
Our Canine Rehabilitation & Fitness Program
We truly believe that providing your pet with the best that modern veterinary medicine has to offer is our mission. This means that we also must support you and your pet during recovery from surgery or injury as well as managing chronic orthopedic and neurologic conditions.
Medications can help reduce pain and treat a number of conditions and our diagnostic resources can help monitor your pet’s recovery from surgery or an injury, but they must be integrated with an effective rehabilitation program. This is why Flying Cloud Animal Hospital offers a comprehensive Canine Rehabilitation & Fitness Program.
The Benefits of Physical Therapy
The goal of our Canine Rehabilitation & Fitness Program is to decrease pain, speed recovery, and maximize overall health and wellbeing. This means if your pet suffers from an orthopedic or neurologic condition, is undergoing surgery, recovering from injury, or simply requires health and wellness work, he or she would benefit from our rehabilitation program.
The benefits include:
- Faster healing and shorter recovery time after surgery
- Less pain
- Muscular strength and flexibility
- Increased joint range of motion
- Improved muscular and cardiovascular endurance
- Maximized athletic potential and performance
- Improved management of chronic disease
- Enhanced quality of life
- And in some cases, physical therapy can help avoid surgery and reduce the risk of certain injuries and orthopedic and neurological conditions
Our Rehabilitation & Fitness Services
Our specially trained and certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner is very adept at developing a balanced therapeutic regimen for your dog designed to maximize the beneficial effects of the therapies offered. Often, the plan for your pet will include a portfolio of exercises and therapies within the following service areas:
Therapeutic Exercise will help improve and promote:
- Muscular strength and flexibility
- Increased joint range of motion
- Weight loss and conditioning
Our Underwater Treadmill uses warm water to create low-impact resistance and is helpful with:
- Improving circulation
- Improving muscle strength and endurance
- Allowing early intervention after surgery or injury to promote faster recovery
- And managing chronic orthopedic and neurological conditions
Neuromuscular Stimulation helps:
- Prevent post-operative muscle degeneration
- Muscle tone and strength
- Heal damaged muscles after injury
- Improve blood circulation to the affected area
- And reduce pain
Therapeutic Ultrasound is very effective for:
- Reducing pain
- Encouraging tissue healing
- Decreasing muscle stiffness
- Increasing blood flow to the affected area
- And Reducing chronic inflammation