Rehab clinics practice human physio practices to animal care

On the animal rehab treadmill at Animal Physio NZ.

Animal physio Elena Saltis treats a Noah's Ark of mammals, from cats and canine to zoo animals.

She runs Animal Physio NZ which has  three animal rehabilitation clinics applying human practices to the animal kingdom.

Saltis​ describes animal physiotherapy because the treatment of orthopaedic and neurological conditions.

Elena Saltis, owner of Animal Physio NZ has three clinics in Canterbury featuring rehab to pets, racing, demonstrate and zoo animals.

She runs animal rehab clinics in Christchurch at Ferrymead and Addington and one in Rangiora.

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The clinics deal with biomechanics, muscle imbalances and dysfunctional joints as well as neurological complications.

The main Ferrymead hospital changed into like a Burwood (spinal unit) medical institution for animals, she stated.

Saltis​ began her physio career treating americans, however went on to study animal rehab and "no longer does people".

individuals every so often assumed her work changed into definitely "simply animal therapeutic massage" however changed into really an extension of human physiotherapy, she said.

team of workers needed to be trained vets or human physios to work in the medical institution and used ultrasound, lasers and electrical stimulators and a thermal pool.

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The clinics make use of seven body of workers and casual experts recruited from foreign places. Animal owners paid $210 for an initial 90 minute consultation and $seventy five for every half-hour follow up, or $a hundred and twenty for an hour.

Saltis​ spent $200,000 on beginning the business, which is the just one of its form within the South Island.

Vets referred animals to her clinics for put up-op medication and treated 15 to 20 animals a day; most of which were dogs including pets, working farm dogs, exhibit canines and racing greyhounds.

The clinics worked with Christchurch Bull Breed Dog Rescue and Greyhounds as Pets. They additionally handled a number of cats, as well as a cheetah and monkey from Orana Park and a "amazing rat".

workforce in an animal health center needed a "zen-like" relaxed approach, Saltis talked about. To hold the peace, her rooms had no clanging metallic furnishing and personnel played "dog relaxation music" and offered aromatherapy.

"it's nicer than any of my human clinics ever were."

each two months Saltis​ heads to the us to lecture submit-graduate college students at the canines Rehabilitation Institute in Florida and Colorado, the place she did her personal post-doctorate look at.

She is also elevating cash to volunteer for a greyhound rescue crusade in Spain, where greyhounds are used for searching.

Saltis​, a greyhound lover, talked about Spaniards often treated greyhounds as vermin.

She understood the country killed as much as 60,000 unwanted greyhounds a year and sometimes they have been thrown into pits and buried alive. "it's unfathomable, basically."

 - Stuff

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