Old Mill Veterinary Hospital


Rehab Center

Old Mill Veterinary Hospital is proud to offer Rehabilitation and Therapy Services, Weight Loss Programs, Arthritis Therapy, and Surgical Recovery.

Rehab

Our Rehabilitation and Therapy Services Department opened in July of 2010. We would like to welcome our Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist, Jason Strahin, to our facility. Our new services include: underwater treadmill, laser therapy, ultrasound and other modalities. Please see our modalities below or call for further details!

LVT Spotlight

Jason Strahin LVT, CCRP leads our Therapy Services Team.

Jason has been a practicing Licensed Veterinary Technician since 1998. He became a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Practitioner in June, 2006.


Jason grew up with working dogs and it has been his special interest to enhance quality of life through “physical therapy”. Jason lives with his 9 year old rescue puppy, Winnie, and they both enjoy being outdoors every chance they get.





Videos


Jason with our underwater treadmill.





Modalities Provided

Consults for Effective Home Management of

Special Needs Patients.

  • Easy daily home therapy exercises
  • Advise on assistive devices, slings and carts

E-Stim
  • NMES
  • TENS

Therapeutic Ultrasound
  • Submerged therapeutic ultrasound

Laser
  • Wound closure
  • Joint inflammation
  • Suture line granulation acceleration

Stretching PROM


Massage
  • Effleurage
  • Deep tissue

Joint Compressions Isolations


Traction
  • Mechanical assisted
  • Gentle body weight traction

Cryotherapy
  • Frozen gel packs
  • Cold water submersion
  • Moist cool compress
  • Therapeutic ultrasound

Heat Therapy
  • Warm rice bags
  • Warm water submersion
  • Warm moist compresses

Alternating Warm Cold Therapy


Dancing/ Walk Like a Person
  • Forwards
  • Backwards

 Therapy Balls / Physio Rolls / Peanut Balls
  • Traction (oversized ball)
  • Weight bearing limb isolations
  • Caudal cranial rocking (progressive weight bearing)
  • Lateral limb isolation
  • Perispinal muscle isolations

Wheel-barrowing


Cavalettis


Laser Pen
  • Stimulated chase therapy

Uneven Surface Proprioception Stimulation
  • Air mattress walking
  • Foam or soft surface walking
  • Balance board training

Muscle and Nerve Postural Retraining
  • Irritant on strong limb

Device Assisted Standing and Walking
  • Splinting
  • Therma Splint
  • Tension and positional wraps
  • Eddies wheels and canine carts
  • Sling frame

Hill Walking
  • Up
  • Down
  • Transverse

Thera-Band


Sled Load Pulling