Rehabilitation
Ask a Specialist: Sports Medicine and Physical Rehabilitation
Rehab specialists are often asked about the likelihood of success of physical rehabilitation. The answer depends on several factors.
Orthopedics
Evaluation After Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy: A Guide for the General Practitioner
TPLO is one of the most commonly recommended and most successful surgical procedures for CCLR.
Integrative Medicine
Laser Therapy for Treatment of Joint Disease in Dogs and Cats
PBMT is a valuable modality that can be used to treat a variety of joint conditions in dogs and cats.
Orthopedics
Regenerative Medicine for Soft Tissue Injury and Osteoarthritis
Regenerative medicine has been used to stimulate healing in areas that have not responded to more traditional approaches, helping injured tissues heal to their original or near-original condition.
Orthopedics
Canine Gait Analysis
New validated objective gait analysis technologies have become available to help veterinarians quantitate characteristics of gait, which can greatly assist in the detection of a subtle lameness as well as response to various treatments.
Orthopedics
Canine Orthopedic Devices
Orthopedic devices can be used to supplement or replace surgical treatment of cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) insufficiency, shoulder injury, carpal and tarsal injury, hip luxation, and limb salvage with prosthetics.
Diagnostics
Senior Cat with Front Paw Swelling and Pain
Diagnosing primary metastatic bronchial carcinoma in a cat can be difficult when the patient’s primary clinical sign is lameness. Lung-digit syndrome should be high on the list of diagnostic differentials.
Rehabilitation
Rehab RX: Early Rehabilitation Modalities and Exercises
Debbie Gross Saunders, DPT, MSPT, CCRP, Diplomate ABPTS Physical rehabilitation of dogs is becoming more common in veterinary medicine.