Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Darryl Millis MS DVM, David Levine PT, Robert A. Taylor DVM MS
Publisher: Saunders

Almost everything used in traditional human physical therapy clinics can be applied to animals. In human medicine, physical therapy has existed for decades. Can you provide a brief overview of canine physical rehabilitation … for people who may not have heard of it? It's not the type of thing where we can tell them to lift their leg 20 times as in human physical therapy. Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy Reviews *http://chilp.it/02e6e7. Pet rehabilitation centers combine the education and expertise of a veterinarian with a doctor of physical therapy. We do some exotics and we also perform canine physical rehabilitation ( physical therapy). The biggest challenges of working with dogs are motivation and verbal communication. One of these emerging specialties for your canine companion is physical rehabilitation therapy. Canine physical rehabilitation, like human physical therapy, uses techniques such as stretching, therapeutic exercises, aquatic therapy, low-level lasers, therapeutic ultrasound and electrical stimulation. On: September 29, 2011 - 09:11. We offer grooming and boarding also. ACVS, CCRP answers questions about the growth of rehabilitation therapy, common conditions encountered and how they are treated, advice to veterinarians and owners and his views on where the field is going. She has completed canine rehabilitation courses with the Canine Rehabilitation Institute in Science Course for Animal Physical Therapists offered by the American Physical Therapy Association, Orthopedics Division. Exiting the practice of Physical Therapy for “people” after 31 years and entering the field of veterinary physical rehabilitation in 2008 was a huge career transition. More importantly to canine issues, she is a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist and a member of the American Canine Sports Medicine Association. Related Posts : Books, Canine Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy, Darryl Millis, David Levine, Download, Robert Taylor, Veterinary Books, Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology. Here's how she became involved with Luke, Hudson, and Murphy, and 2dogs2000miles.