Essential Facts of Physiotherapy in Dogs and Cats: Rehabilitation and Pain Management (DVD Included)

by Barbara Brockstahler, David Levine, Darryl Mills
January 2004

Essential Facts of Physiotherapy in Dogs and Cats –Rehabilitation and Pain Management is a practical reference guide that covers all topics relevant to physiotherapy including goals of physiotherapy, physiology & pathology, pain, physiotherapeutic examination, methods of physiotherapy, and indications including frequent orthopedic and neurological problems and their physiotherapeutic management. Detailed treatment plans with technique, procedure and frequency are laid out in point form for all indications. This guide is ideal for practitioners, technicians and students. Also included is a 45 minute tutorial training video on DVD ,which explains in detail and slow motion every exercise and technique described in the book (physiotherapeutic examination, massage, exercise therapy, electrotherapy, extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT), underwater treadmill).