Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Lasers are one of the most underutilized treatment modalities in the veterinary world. A cold laser is one of the safest and most effective devices to utilize. Laser treatment offers the following benefits: increases healing decreases pain reduces unwanted scar tissue decreases bacterial counts reduces inflammation, etc. Jasmine was getting cold laser along with her physical therapy but when she…
Regenerative therapy is high on our list of treatments that were most beneficial for Jasmine. On a gut level, this approach made sense to me from the first time I’ve heard about it and I couldn’t be happier we decided to take that path. Jasmine received stem cell therapy repeatedly and we treated Cookie’s partial CCL tears with platelet-rich plasma.…
Sometimes you hear a word so often that it loses its meaning. Hip dysplasia is a common orthopedic issue in dogs. That doesn’t mean that it cannot be debilitating. There are still dogs who are euthanized because of the severe effects of hip dysplasia. Thank you, Dr. Mark D Newkirk, for sharing Hunter’s story. Hunter’s story Hunter, a one-year-old yellow…
Exiting the practice of human physical therapy after 31 years and entering the field of veterinary physical rehabilitation in 2008 was a huge career transition. Suddenly I entered a world where what I did was no longer called “Physical Therapy” and many of the providers were not actual physical therapists! Most canine rehabilitation practitioners are vets and veterinary technicians who…
There is a great benefit of physical therapy and rehabilitation to help your dog. But can you do any of that at home? Of course, that depends. If you don’t know what you’re doing you could cause harm or make no difference at all. Although gentle massage is always great it might not be effective. It is always best to…