Physiotherapy for animals needing therapeutic treatment & exercises after surgery, accidental injury, decrease in working ability or weight loss management
If you had an injury that needed physiotherapy, you would go to a physiotherapist and seek help, so why not do the same for your animal?
As humans, we need physiotherapy after different types of surgery due to accidents, injuries, traumatic events, etc. Think about athletes, dancers, professional trainers, body builders, etc., whether professional or recreational, after an injury while training or performing they receive medical attention from a doctor and in severe cases of trauma and injury surgical intervention may be necessary. Patients are then referred to a physiotherapist for rehabilitative physiotherapy or therapeutic treatment to aid in recovery.
Physiotherapy is common practice to humans and makes a huge difference in the lives of those that needed it and followed the physiotherapists instructions and rehab plan. It helps you get back to work, training, performing, etc. much sooner and lowers the risk of injuring the affected part they've injured before.
As explained above, it makes complete sense to have physiotherapy after the above mentioned incidents or surgeries as humans, so why wouldn't the same principles apply to animals? There are so many working animals that are athletes, performers, training in agility, animals that get injured due to a fall, being hit by a car, injured by another animal, or undergo surgery to rectify a broken bone, torn ligaments or tendons, etc. All of these animals are also in great need of rehabilitative physiotherapy, just as we as humans are. It makes sense to us humans to have physiotherapy and so should it make sense for us to give our animals the physiotherapy they need.
