- Primary CareAnimal chiropractic care is not intended to replace traditional veterinary medicine. Complementary care is a type of care that works with your veterinarian and certainly not instead of them. The professional animal chiropractor should seek cooperation and perhaps even permission and/or assistance from the primary care physician, the veterinarian
- UltrasoundSometimes, "Less is More" If you just strained your muscles or stretched a ligament you should be told that, taught some self rehab therapy that you can do at home and counseled about how to avoid the injury next time by perhaps changing the way you did what you did (biomechanics modification). Maybe you should be referred to a massage therapist or get some help choosing a natural herb or supplement to reduce the inflammation or correct a nutritional deficiency (if that's what caused the injury to occur). Or maybe you need only to be offered physiotherapy treatment in our office, like ultrasound or laser to speed up your healing or reach deeper into tissues than home remedies go. And maybe given exercises that you can do at home or with a personal trainer that will stabilize and strengthen the injured area, and then be discharged from active care.
- X-Rays
- Manual TherapyOf all the varieties of physiotherapy available today I believe that properly delivered deep tissue laser therapy is the most effective. Not for all conditions, but I see it do more for people (and animals) than any other physiotherapy in more than 35 years of consideration. I have personally seen hundreds and hundreds of cases, non-responsive to any other form of care find relief with deep tissue (Class IV) laser therapy. Many arthritic conditions too fragile for physical joint manipulation can be successfully treated with laser. If you have pain of muscle, ligament, tendon or joint that has been non-responsive to other forms of care or for which (due to negative side effects) medication is not a good option. Please consider this form of therapy.