Rehabilitation
Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy Service in Madrid
Animal physiotherapy is an important part of treatment for many musculoskeletal (muscle, bone, joint, soft tissue) and neurological disorders seen in small animals and exotic pets.
Physiotherapy can help animals recover from a variety of conditions, such as acute or chronic pain, muscle contractures, fractures or sports injuries. It can also be used after orthopaedic, neurological or general surgery, as well as to improve the biomechanics and athletic ability of animals.
Physiotherapy can also be used for the performance development of the animal athlete, helping to try to minimise the risk of injury and maximise the performance of competition or working animals.
Our team members will be able to offer a variety of different treatment techniques. Having carried out a thorough assessment of your animal, they may use a combination of the following approaches to help with any identified problems
Rehabilitation uses the application of physiotherapy techniques and clinical reasoning to control pain and restore movement. Pet physiotherapy should be performed by a veterinarian to ensure that the correct and safe treatments are administered appropriately to ensure that rehabilitation goals are met.
Physiotherapy should begin as soon as possible after any diagnosis of injury, surgery or diagnosis of musculoskeletal or neurological conditions by your veterinarian. Many gentle manual techniques and modalities can be used to help reduce pain, inflammation and stiffness, decrease muscle atrophy and cartilage degeneration and stimulate tissue regeneration.
We ensure that treatments are targeted and gentle so as not to risk the repair of damaged and healing tissues.
The treatment programme will generally include a variety of manual therapies, therapeutic exercises and physical therapies to modulate healing and pain selected individually for the patient and clinical case:
- laserterapia, laserpuntura
- magnetoterapia
- ultrasound
- electroestimulacion and electroacupuntura…
- hydrotherapy and ribbon underwater
The physiotherapy veterinary has as objective promote the healing and restore the function normal of the animals. The programs of exercises of recovery will be individual and is used for help to promote patterns of movement correct and improve the brawn, the resistance, the flexibility, the propiocepción (the conscience of animal of where is found the extremities and the body in the space), the balance and the stability that are necessary, being particularly beneficial for:
- management of pain.
- improve or keep the mass muscular and the force.
- improvement or maintenance of the mobility to articulate.
- tissue soft, fracture and healing of injuries.
- improvement of the propiocepción, the balance and the force of core.
- management of problems related with the age.
The common pathologies that benefy of the physiotherapy veterinary include:
- Disease of disk intervertebral (div)
- Embolism fibrocartilaginoso (fcem)
- Injuries of tissues soft (including injuries of muscles, tendons and ligaments)
- Imbalances muscular
- Injuries infected and repair of injuries
- Maintenance general
- Espondilitis
- Osteoarthritis
- Displasia of elbow and hip disease
- Crusade dislocation of the kneecap
- Fractures of bone
- Prosthesis of hip
- Fission of head and neck femoral.
- Amputation of extremities
- Rehabilitation postoperative
The strategies of physiotherapy used the combination of different techniques of treatment, is used a combination of therapies manuals, therapies physical and prescription of exercise, for guarantee results excellent for its pet:
Manual therapies:
The manual therapy implies a variety of techniques of tissues soft, as massage, demonstrations joint and estiramientos, used so for evaluate as for treat to the patients: evaluate the anomalies of the tissues soft, liberation miofascial, estiramientos, restrictions joint and the presence of contractures muscular.
The massage therapeutic is used for treat the tension muscular and the tension that is produce as consequence of diseases joint and neurological. Includes a variety of techniques:
- effleurage is a technique calmative for the relaxation and for reduce the swelling.
- petrissage applies pressure moderate to deep for improve the circulation and the extensibilidad of tissue.
- the friction crusade is used for break the adhesions and accelerate the healing muscular.
- the liberation of triggerpoints removed the areas sensitive and decrease the spasm.
In occasions use the massage together with the therapy thermal for relax to the patient and heat the muscles for improve the effect of any stretch, rank of movement to articulate and assure that the patients obtain the maximum benefit of other forms of therapy that incorporate.
The massage stimulates the endorphins that help to check the pain and reduce the anxiety.
Physical therapies/electroterapias:
The use of equipment flor phisical therapeutic as ultrasound, laser, magnetoterapia, tens, and electroacupuncture.
Provide a multitude of benefits, that include relief of pain, repair of tissues soft and bones, regeneration of nerves, vasodilatación (that cause a flow blood enhanced in a area) and vasoconstricción (restriction of flow blood to a area i.e., useful for areas of inflammation).
Prescription of exercise:
Sometimes the owners can need advice of management additional on the management therapeutic of its animal injured, or perchance how make the adaptations appropriate to the environment of home and the administration general of a animal for help in its rehabilitation: stretches assets rank of movement active improvements propioceptivas exercises of strengthening
the members of our team will address each case of form entirely individual, with a exhaustive record and a test that will guide the election of a plan of treatment individual optimum.
Nothing is always prescriptive, but that relies in the evaluation and reassessment constant of the problems of presentation and always is have in account the circumstances, the management and the behavior unique of each animal.
The legislation current for safeguard the welfare of the animals sets that the animals alone can be treated for physiotherapy for a veterinarian and for its assistants veterinary directed.
Can ask appointment and information:
Phones: 916200098 – 609045384
Mail: info@vetcarehospitalveterinario.com
