Welcome To
WAGGING TAILS
VETERINARY SERVICES
Veterinary Acupuncture
and Rehabilitation services in your Home!
Canine and feline rehabilitation is a specialized field within veterinary medicine that focuses on enhancing the quality of life for pets through targeted exercise programs and therapeutic techniques. These methods help to reduce pain, increase mobility and fitness, restore functionality, and ultimately improve the overall well-being of animals. This specialty thrives on the collaboration between certified rehabilitation therapists, dedicated pet owners, and their cherished companions. Much like human physical therapy, animal rehabilitation employs similar approaches and tools to achieve its goals.
Veterinary acupuncture is a therapeutic technique that involves inserting fine needles into specific points on an animal’s body to help alleviate pain, promote healing, and restore balance. It’s based on the same principles as traditional Chinese acupuncture, which views the body as having a network of energy pathways, or meridians, and seeks to balance the flow of energy, or Qi (pronounced “chee”), to improve health and well-being.
Therapies/Modalities Offered:
- Acupuncture - this modality utilizes dry needling technique to reduce pain and inflammation, correct imbalances in the body, and stimulate natural healing properties.
- Massage - helps to reduce inflammation, relax muscles, improve circulation, and reduce stress in pets. This is often beneficial for patients with musculoskeletal injuries, post-surgical procedures or for those pets in their senior years.
- Passive range of motion and stretching - facilitates animals in regaining normal function of muscles following injury and prevent loss of function, improve flexibility and mobility for animals.
- Cold laser therapy - uses light therapy to work on a cellular level to stimulate reparative cells, in addition to reducing pain and inflammation. Laser treatments have been proven to improve healing times of surgical incisions, wounds, and certain injured areas.
- Neuromuscular stimulation - used to help strengthen and stimulate muscle contractions in order to reduce atrophy or loss of muscle mass. In addition, it targets specific nerves that aid in reducing pain and swelling.
- Therapeutic exercises - a customized treatment plan including strengthening, balancing, and coordination exercises that can be performed at home.
