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

Judy Coates (SED'74,'81, SAR'86) is a certified canine rehabilitation therapist—for legal reasons, she can't call herself a physical therapist for dogs, but that term sums up her work. Cranial Treatment options include medical management, physical rehabilitation including laser therapy, surgery, or a combination of all three options. Canine rehabilitation: Getting orthopedic patients back on their feet. When someone hears physical therapy the common thought is injury or surgical rehabilitation. How do you condition dogs to relax around rehab equipment? Tracy McKenzie: It's such a new field, but there has actually been physical therapy for horses since the 1970s. The word Rehabilitation or Rehab for short. Woops; that's two words but in veterinary medicine we have to use just one word. Torontoist: What is animal rehabilitation, and what kind of ailments bring a pet into the clinic? Research confirms that animal physical rehabilitation works just as well as physical therapy for humans. Johnson's therapy room was the same as what you would see in your own physical therapist's office. In addition to daily physical-therapy sessions at home, Lilly gets weekly physical therapy treatments at The K-9 Body Shop. What's in the immediate future, one word, Physical Therapy!