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

As a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist who has worked on many agility dogs with shoulder and back injuries I can say single stepping is very hard on the dog's body, but when asked, “What style should I teach my dog?” I say, let the dog decide. As a pediatric PT I do A LOT of training/teaching of new skills. €�But single-stepping looks faster. Animal health professionals have learned from human physical therapists in order to help animal patients recover more quickly. Tina recently became a CCRP (Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner), earned through the University of Tennessee. Amy Kramer, PT, DPT, CCRT, co-founder of CARE, advises pawrents to seek out practices that have a veterinarian and a licensed canine rehabilitation practitioner working together. Filed Under water treadmill animal canine dog rehab rehabilitation drills exercise sports injury repair program healing pain CCL surgery ACL knee hip replacement veterinary surgeon therapy I became aware of the water treadmill via my work at the hospital, and I found that the use of it was/is widely promoted within veterinary medicine and the canine rehab model, which draws heavily from structured, academic-oriented, human physical therapy concepts. I used the 2 x 2 training method made famous by Susan Garrett because it just made sense to the PT part of me. Man's best friend now has a better chance of recovering from surgery or ailments, with Massey University opening its new Canine Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Service. So let's take a quick look at the world of Pet Physical Rehabilitation!