Physiotherapy rehabilitation of small pets in veterinary clinics

Abstract

Veterinary physiotherapy rehabilitation is one of the areas of application of physical factors for the recovery of animals with loss of function as a result of injury or disease. There is an obvious need to restore animals with diseases of the musculoskeletal system, spine, with forced immobilization in acute trauma or prescribed to reduce the load on the diseased limb, which inevitably leads to a decrease in muscle mass, a decrease in the elasticity of the tendon-ligamentous apparatus and prevents a return to full functional activity. The problem of effective anelgysia after surgical treatment in small pets is also important. Modern nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are designed to solve the issues of reducing inflammation and anelgisia in diseases of the spinal column, after post-traumatic and surgical treatment methods. Physiotherapy techniques based on a low-frequency magnetic field can serve as an auxiliary pathogenetic treatment method that accelerates the duration of treatment, since in the sinusoidal non-thermal mode they have an antispasmodic, analgesic effect, and in the thermal pulsating they stimulate neurotrophic reactions. The aim of our study was a comparative study of the recovery period in cats and dogs after surgical treatment or injuries using physiotherapy in combination with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs in several veterinary clinics. 100 case histories of small pets were studied. As a result, it was revealed that physiotherapy rehabilitation is effective, has no adverse reactions, is well perceived by animals and can be organized at veterinary clinics of different levels.