Rehabilitation
Danner Veterinary Hospital provides full service physical rehabilitation for pets in South Tulsa, Oklahoma and the surrounding area. The field of veterinary rehabilitation has made tremendous strides in recent years in therapy techniques and practices. In the past, pets may have experienced a diminished quality of life due to physical impairments resulting from injury, surgery, or a degenerative condition such as arthritis. Now, pets who have suffered these same conditions are seeing great improvement thanks to rehabilitation services.
The rehabilitation team at Danner Veterinary Hospital is dedicated to relieving pain, healing, and bringing as much quality of life as possible to our patients. Recent research has shown that the least effective treatment for injury is excessive rest. Therefore, rehabilitation efforts concentrate on stimulating the injured area using various treatments that increase circulation, promote healing, reduce inflammation, and reduce pain.
At Danner Veterinary Hospital, our goals are to heal and restore full range of movement and strength to injured body parts and to increase functionality. Our rehabilitation services include non-invasive treatments such as massage, stretching, and physical exercise, as well as laser therapy. These treatments help accomplish an increased range of motion throughout your pet’s joints, decreased pain where they are sore, and increased flexibility.
In addition to our rehabilitation sessions at the hospital, we provide pet parents with guidelines to continue at-home care.
Additionally, we also offer platelet rich plasma therapy to promote and accelerate the healing of injured tendons, ligaments, muscles, and joints, and improve musculoskeletal problems. This natural therapy uses injections of the patient’s own blood to relieve pain and reduce recovery time, and can be done at our hospital as a day procedure.
The types of issues and conditions that may benefit from rehabilitation services include:
- Pain relief
- Post-surgical recovery
- Amputation
- Disk disease
- Hip dysplasia
- Osteoarthritis
- Sports injuries
- Ligament tears
- Trauma
- Obesity
If your pet has had an illness or injury, keep in mind that rehabilitation is most effective when it begins as soon as possible after the traumatic event. If your pet has had an issue that requires rehabilitation services, call the caring team at Danner Veterinary Hospital, and let us get your pet on the road to recovery.
This is Falcor. He is a 12-year-old neutered, male basset mix. He had a cervical disc rupture, and this is soon after his surgery. Two examples of cervical disc recovery are included in the videos below.
This next one is a seven year old malamute male that you saw in the second half of the video. He also had a cervical disc rupture. Looking at the x-ray you can see at cervical space 4/5 it has collapsed and calcified.
Here are 4 examples of dogs with Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries. These videos were shot within one to two weeks of post surgical repair.