Recovery Support for Pets
For over eight decades, physical therapy has helped human patients recover from injury and surgery by improving and alleviating pain. At the Veterinary Medical Center of Long Island, we strive to achieve these same results for your recovering pet.
Our foremost goal is to safely return your pet to their former activity level as quickly as possible, minimizing recovery time and psychological distress for both you and your pet.
Rehabilitation goals include:
- Post-operative rehab to reduce pain and speed healing
- Safe weight loss for obese and diabetic pets
- Prevention of muscle atrophy
- Improving circulation
- Strengthening muscles
- Pain relief
Rehabilitation Therapists on Long Island
We are proud to offer the services of both a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner and a Certified Small Animal Massage Therapist. These veterinary rehabilitation experts are trained to offer a variety of therapies to the highest degree of effectiveness.
What to Expect During Physical Therapy
Upon referral from your primary veterinarian or surgeon, your pet will be evaluated by a certified canine rehabilitation practitioner (CCRP) to identify the limitations your pet faces and the goals necessary to help restore your pet to their optimal quality of life.
We will determine the most appropriate treatments and implement them in our state-of-the-art facility equipped with, electrical stimulation, low-level laser therapy, and therapeutic exercise equipment.
Additionally, you will be instructed in techniques to reinforce these treatments at home, enhancing your pet’s recovery.
The Benefits of Rehabilitation
The therapies used in rehabilitation focus on improving mobility and recovery while reducing pain and inflammation.
Rehabilitation also extends benefits to animals that are elderly, arthritic, post-surgical, neurologically impaired, athletic and obese.
Rehabilitation Services
At VMCLI, we use noninvasive techniques for the rehabilitation of your pet’s injuries, including:
- Therapeutic exercises
- Conditioning and weight loss programs
- Managing the geriatric patient
- Client education for specific orthopedic and neurological conditions
- Stretching/passive range of motion/massage
- Thermal therapy
- Home exercise programs
- Electro-hydrotherapy
- Low-level laser therapy
- Ultrasound
- Lontophoresis
- Joint mobilizations and stretching
- Gait retraining
- Cart Consultations
- Prosthetics
- Balance retraining
- Athletic conditioning
- Acupuncture