If your dog acquired an FCE injury you have come to the right place to heal your dog. When therapies are started immediately, the prognosis of regaining function is higher than those that have a delay from onset of injury to treatments.
In our first appointment, we are teaching guardians a lot of techniques to help their pet at home. You will have a clear picture of how to care for your dog at home including how to care for the bladder, how to maneuver your pet, how to perform their home exercise program, and what assistive devices are needed to get your pet walking again.
At Walking Paws Rehab you will have a support team guiding you through your dog’s recovery to walking normal again!
The spinal cord cannot repair areas that have been damaged, but it has a great ability to reroute around areas of damage through a process called neuroplasticity. Through this process, the spinal cord is able to use healthy areas to do the function of damaged areas.
During rehab, we utilize electrotherapy, laser therapy, ultrasound therapy, and pain medications to get pain under control. We then focus on relaxing the muscles surrounding the spine and doing exercises to improve sensation and proprioception (the awareness of where the limbs are in space). A major component of our rehab after an fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE) is aimed at improving transitions and doing gait retraining
We work on positional balance exercises and then progress into dynamic movements. We focus on retraining transitions and taking appropriate steps. Fine tuning those movements are very important. Lastly, we focus on rebuilding the stabilizers to the spine to prevent future injuries.
