• In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Molly J. Flaherty brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Rehabilitation Therapy. Top experts cover current and emerging areas of interest, with introductory material for the general practitioner as well as advanced material for the rehabilitation veterinarian. Topics include everything from pain management and manual therapies to more focused areas of special interest, such as rehabilitation therapy in palliative care.

    • Cover image

    • Title page

    • Table of Contents

    • Copyright

    • Contributors

    • Forthcoming Issues

    • Preface

    • Multimodal Approach to Pain Management in Veterinary Rehabilitation

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Physiology of pain

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

    • Select Manual Assessment Techniques and Clinical Reasoning Skills Used in Canine Physical Rehabilitation Before Engaging in Manual Therapy Treatment

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Summary

    • Disclosure

    • Declaration of Interests

    • Clinics care points

    • Veterinary Spinal Manipulative Therapy or Animal Chiropractic in Veterinary Rehabilitation

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Brief history

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

    • Supplementary data

    • Shockwave Therapy in Veterinary Rehabilitation

    • Key points

    • History

    • Mechanism of action

    • Types of devices

    • Scientific evidence

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

    • Photobiomodulation (Therapeutic Lasers): An Update and Review of Current Literature

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Discussion

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

    • Regenerative Medicine and Rehabilitation Therapy in the Canine

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Principles of developing and implementing a rehabilitation therapy plan

    • Regenerative medicine and rehabilitation therapy

    • Regenerative medicine and multimodal rehabilitation therapy

    • Clinical applications of rehabilitation therapy following regenerative medicine

    • Veterinary regenerative rehabilitation: challenges and future directions

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

    • Management of Injuries in Agility Dogs

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Incidence of injuries in agility dogs

    • Types of injuries in agility dogs

    • Risk factors for injury

    • Clinics care points

    • Biomechanics of agility

    • Common performance problems

    • Clinics care points

    • Common agility injuries

    • Less common agility injuries

    • Pelvic limb

    • Conclusion: Rehabilitation considerations for agility dogs

    • Disclosure

    • Rehabilitation Therapy for the Degenerative Myelopathy Patient

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Evaluation

    • Current evidence for physical rehabilitation and complementary medicine

    • Clinical outcomes

    • Client communication

    • Discussion

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

    • Therapy Exercises Following Cranial Cruciate Ligament Repair in Dogs

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • The first 72 hours

    • First 72 hours to 2 weeks

    • Weeks 2 to 4

    • Weeks 4 to 6

    • Weeks 6 to 8

    • Beyond 8 weeks

    • Additional considerations

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Supplementary data

    • Declaration of Interests

    • Rehabilitation to Return-to-Work for Working Dogs

    • Key points

    • Introduction

    • Disclosure

    • Clinics care points

    • Feline Osteoarthritis Management

    • Key points

    • Background

    • Integrative management of feline osteoarthritis

    • Summary

    • Disclosure

    • Declaration of Interests

    • Use of Rehabilitation Therapy in Palliative Care Patients

    • Key points

    • Introduction and background

    • Current evidence and recommendations

    • Summary

    • Clinics care points

    • Disclosure

  • Molly J. Flaherty

    Affiliations and expertise

    Director of rehabilitation medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary Clinics of North America
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