Vier Animal Physiotherapy Services

Vier is here to assist in the rehabilitation treatment or long-term management of musculoskeletal/orthopaedic or neurological injuries and conditions. Working along side your veterinary care, Vier offers complimentary therapies to ensure that your animal gets the best treatment, recovering sooner and reducing the risk of reoccurring and/or further injury.

Vier also assists in the development of fitness and performance in working and sporting animals. This ensures that the occurrence of injuries are reduced by maintaining fitness levels. It ensures that the animal athlete is working to its optimal abilities by helping to maximise performance and reduce recovery time.

Veterinary Physiotherapy at Vier, is also used to maintain your pets health. This can help to prevent injuries and keep your pet physically fit throughout their normal day to day life. Have you noticed your pet "slowing down"? This could be a sign of discomfort due to aging and Veterinary Physiotherapy can help.

Mobile Service 

The treatment sessions are entirely mobile taking place in the animals home or stable. This helps to avoid unnecessary stresses such as travelling or unfamiliar environments, which can help to increase the welfare and wellbeing of your animal.

Individually Tailored Service 

To ensure that your pet gets the best care, therapy sessions are tailored to their individual needs therefore enhancing their recovery. Clinical reasoning is used to determine the short, mid and long term goals of the treatment, meaning treatment varies from animal to animal depending on their medical issues, personalities and the owners time availability and goals. Different methods of treatment are available and can be given depending on the outcome of the initial assessment and Veterinary recommendation.

 

Initial Consultation 

Once a Veterinary Referral form has been obtained, the first session includes an initial assessment and treatment to enable a specific treatment plan to be formed, this is 90 minutes. Following this session, reports will be written up for both the owner and veterinarian.

 Treatment Sessions 

Throughout the treatment sessions, a range of physiotherapy techniques such as: soft tissue massage, passive joint exercises, phototherapy (red and blue light), pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, therapeutic long wave ultrasound and active stretches and therapeutic exercises can be used. These methods are used to achieve the desired aims listed below, depending on your pets needs.

The overall aims at Vier Physiotherapy are to promote healing, restore normal function and increase fitness by:

Aiding in pain management

Reducing inflammation

Improving and / or maintaining joint mobility

Building and / or maintaining muscle mass and strength

Improving balance, core strength and stability

Improving proprioception (coordination) 

Correcting compensatory gait patterns 

Maintaining health and fitness

Please see the Veterinary Physiotherapy section for a list of common issues that can be treated.

Additional Services

Maintenance and Fitness Packages

Not all animals require Veterinary Physiotherapy as a rehabilitation tool. You may want to use physiotherapy as a method to keep your pets fit and healthy, to prevent the likelihood of injuries occurring and to help slow down the aging process.

If this is the case then you may be interested in one of the maintenance and fitness packages. This includes a monthly maintenance or fitness treatment session and a maintenance/fitness programme for you to follow at home.

 

Canine Exercise Fitness and Maintenance plans (£10) 

Therapeutic exercises can be a great way of keeping your dog fit and healthy as well as increasing their fitness and reducing the likelihood of them developing an injury. The exercise plans can be tailored to you and your dogs needs, depending on what you want to achieve. These plans are a great way of developing your dogs muscle and joint health as well as building that bond between pet and owner, by training and having fun!

Each plan come's with a variety of exercises, that aim to develop strength, balance and coordination, resulting in an increase in fitness and injury prevention. Each plan is laid out clearly with the name of each exercise, a written description and the benefit of each exercise. You will also have access to training videos, that demonstrate how to carry out each of the exercises. All exercises can be performed with or without equipment therefore suiting all fitness and training levels.