Helping Pets Move Better, Feel Better, Live Better

CANINE REHABILITATION

We believe in supporting the body with the appropriate treatment, which can mean that sometimes pills aren’t the best option. Our canine rehabilitation services can help reduce pain, improve mobility, and help your pet get back on its feet—whether it is recovering from surgery, managing arthritis, or simply getting older and slowing down.

With a gentle, personalized approach, our certified rehabilitation therapist, Dr. Abby Sullivan, creates targeted treatment plans that combine therapeutic techniques with compassionate care. Every plan is tailored to your pet’s specific needs and goals.

Exercise

The core of any rehab treatment is a set of basic exercises. Performed regularly in-clinic and at home, these help improve strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination, and can slow progression of disease.
Hydrotherapy

Water is healing in many ways: buoyancy, pressure, and resistance benefit animals with weight, mobility, and strength issues. We’ve seen even water-scared dogs improve dramatically in our underwater treadmill.
Therapeutic Ultrasound

Ultrasound uses sound waves to create heat (thermal effects) and vibration (non-thermal effects) to relax muscle, decrease scar tissue, and alleviate pain.
Photo-biomodulation

(Cold laser therapy)
Exposing tissue to a specific wavelength of light results in a pain-free way to reduce inflammation and accelerate healing.
TENS

(Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation)
These painless electrical pulses help relax muscles and reduce pain, as well as help restore strength after surgery or nervous system injuries.
Massage

Do the benefits of massage need to be explained…or simply experienced? We’ll just mention quickly that it relaxes muscles, alleviates pain, redistributes swelling, breaks down scar tissue, and just feels really darn good!

Patients that benefit from rehab are dealing with:

Ask about our post-op rehab package! Dogs who undergo an in-clinic rehabilitation program post surgery for cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) repair are twice as likely to have a favorable recovery than dogs who do at-home exercises alone. In-clinic rehab can also help your dog recover from hip surgery (FHO), Achilles tendon surgery, shoulder surgery, fractures, amputations, elbow surgery (OCD), and more.
Our rehabilitation team can help you navigate a variety of neurologic conditions such as Degenerative Myelopathy (DM), Fibrocartilaginous Embolism (FCE), Intervertebral Disc Disease (IVDD), spinal trauma, and more. Rehab helps patients regain more mobility with less time after neurological trauma, and it can help delay the progression of degenerative processes.
Arthritis is a painful condition that affects many aging pets, and its impact can worsen with age, excess weight, and concurrent disease. Though this condition cannot be cured, it can be managed and your pet’s quality of life improved via a variety of treatment modalities, including supplements, therapeutic exercises, diet, and, pain relief.
Ask about our weight loss package! A healthy body weight is of the utmost importance to your dog’s health. Reports show that 50% of dogs in the United States are overweight. This can lead to a multitude of health problems such as joint issues, arthritis, heart and lung disease, lipomas (fatty tumors), bladder problems, and shortened lifespan.