Articles About Pet Rehabilitation in Oregon
Choosing a New Vet in Town
Moving is hard. If you've just moved to the Portland, Oregon area, finding your trusted service providers in your new area can be even harder! With your veterinary team there is trust there -- you’ve been THROUGH STUFF together, you’ve cried together, made tough...
Physical Therapy for Pets in Portland
Yes, we have lots of neat physical therapy gadgets with red lights and beeping noises we can use to rehabilitate your pet. And yes, they will help, but the mainstay of physical therapy for pets is simple and easy. It is manual therapies: how the veterinary...
Electrostimulation Helpful For Pets in Portland
Methods of Electrostimulation Helpful For PetsWhat is electrostimulation for pets? Electrostimulation is using an electrical impulse to a nerve within a muscle to help decrease pain, increase muscle strength, or both. Hang on a minute…..I’m picturing Frankenstein...
Hydrotherapy Treadmill for Dogs in Portland, Oregon
What is an underwater treadmill for Dogs? Yes, just as it sounds - It is a device where dogs walk on a treadmill in a tank of water for rehabilitation and conditioning. Is it easy to get a dog to get on an underwater treadmill? The beauty of the hydrotherapy treadmill...
Athletic Conditioning for Dogs in Portland, Oregon
Improve Your Sport, Protect Your Dog with Athletic Conditioning For canine athletes, whether agility, fly ball, disc dog, earth dog, dock diving, sled dog racing or any other canine sport, rehabilitation techniques and equipment can improve your dog’s longevity and...
Therapeutic Laser Therapy for Pets in Portland
When I hear therapeutic laser, I tend to think of the thing that Dr. McCoy had on Star Trek that told him what was wrong and magically repaired it. While we’re not quite there yet in veterinary medicine, the therapeutic laser is becoming a pillar of care in...
Dog Rehabilitation Physiotherapy in Portland
Dog rehabilitation physiotherapy is an essential component of canine rehabilitation and conditioningWhat is physiotherapy? Physiotherapy is a term that encompasses any exercises we do with your pet that does not involve something mechanical. Stretching, ball work,...
Therapeutic Ultrasound in Animal Physical Therapy
Is veterinary therapeutic ultrasound a way to look inside the body? Pet ultrasound, by definition, is a oscillating sound wave that is above the range the we can hear. For diagnosis (i.e. looking inside the body) – the machine is measuring what comes back to it after...
About Healing Arts Animal Care
Healing Arts Animal Care in Beaverton, Oregon provides veterinary acupuncture, pet rehabilitation therapy, physical therapy and athletic conditioning and Animal Massage Therapy for the dogs and cats of the Portland, Oregon Metro Area including Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, and Tualatin. We strive to create a team among you, your pet, your veterinarian and ourselves to create a whole package of care for your pet including wheelchairs for dogs. Pets come through our door knowing that we’re going to have fun here and this isn’t “another trip to the vet.” Through manual therapies, acupuncture, laser, ultrasound, underwater treadmill and creating a tailored individual home exercises, we strive to bring your injured pet back to speed, keep your elderly pet as an active member of the family, return your obese pet back to a functional friend and keep your athletic pet at the peak of his performance.
