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

Alternative therapies have also been gaining tremendous popularity in recent years. Lisa Schenkel, a long time veterinarian at Animal Medical of New City, has been a certified canine rehabilitation therapist since 2006 and has also recently completed certification in veterinary medical acupuncture at Colorado State University. Rehabilitation therapy can include underwater treadmills, laser therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, ultrasound therapy and electric stimulation. In addition to daily physical-therapy sessions at home, Lilly gets weekly physical therapy treatments at The K-9 Body Shop. Though PetSafe just entered the Vet Therapy market a little over a year ago, the field has been in the history books for a few decades now. Her broad range of experience includes pet and competition obedience, behavior modification, rehabilitation of "problem dogs," puppy development, breed rescue, Canine Good Citizen & Therapy Dog Preparation and more. Canine physical rehabilitation, like human physical therapy, uses techniques such as stretching, therapeutic exercises, aquatic therapy, low level lasers, therapeutic ultrasound, and electrical stimulation. That is why, at Animal Medical of New City, we are now providing our patients with veterinary supervised physical medicine treatments such as therapeutic exercises, acupuncture, cold laser and ultrasound therapy and Dr. Tina recently became a CCRP (Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner), earned through the University of Tennessee. Now, physical therapy is used as part of the treatment of dog arthritis. Dog Water Therapy Dog physical therapy is an important aspect of the rehabilitation process for dogs that have been recently injured or have just undergone major surgery.