Physical Therapy for Animals in California

Having access to these services is ver beneficial to the animals!

We as owners have the right to choose how we help our pets, especially those of us who consider them our kids.

I am a veterinarian trained in chiropractic and rehab. The person who has taught me the most is a PT who has been rehab certified for many years. Her skills are very complimentary to those of a veterinary trained rehab practitioner, and well beyond those of a veterinary technician. Disallowing PTs working on animals is shooting ourselves, as veterinary rehab professionals, in the foot.

Phys therapists are qualified if not more so than vets. This is ridiculous.

It boggles my mind that humans have the PT sub-specialty and yet the CVMA and VMB oppose this for our family members.

Allowing only veterinarians to provide physical therapy care to animals is ridiculous. My human physical therapist is not an MD, why should my dogs require a higher degree of credentialing than human physical therapists? PT degree and certification programs for animal Pt seems to be doing a very good job of helping pets and other animals. Requiring veterinarians only be allowed to provide this service would put pet physical therapy beyond the financial reach of many pet owners.

Hydro paws and Karen gave my Great Dane Gwendolyn a year of life when her arthritis began to cripple her. She had a pain free wonderful twelve extra months that she could not have had without physical therapy.

I am a veterinarian who makes his living in sports medicine and rehabilitation, so arguably, from a competition perspective, I have the most to lose by competing with PT's, and I feel strongly support the notion that appropriately trained PTs be allowed to work on animals. Rehab vets would not know as much as they do today if PTs hadn't taught them.

As I'm not a veterinarian and yet I have worked in canine rehab for 7 years, helping many, many dogs regain strength and function, or maintain condition and mobility, I think that making physiotherapy for animals the sole domain of the veterinarian to be very obstructive and senseless - as if veterinarians don't have enough to do already and these wonderful services can run in parallel with PTs, who specialise in just these areas.

supporting physical therapists who fill a niche in animal care!

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You don't go to a doctor for PT...just like you don't go to a Vet for PT!! Let us take our animals to who we trust with our animals!!!!

Please keep general practice health care and sports medicine separate.

there's not enough skilled rehab for animals in general - why are you excluding a doctorally prepared professional specializing in biomechanics and mobility who wants to learn/train in treating our animals?! Vets have no more education than a PT in this area. Various approaches bring depth and innovation. Stop playing politics. Everyone has to pass a veterinary rehab certification to do the work. Fair for everyone.

As long as the person providing veterinary care is also certified in veterinary rehab. We have two DPT, CCRT at the specialty practice where I work and they have both provided phenomenal care to my patients. I am I strong support of DPT, CCRT

as a PT our knowledge of the musculoskeletal and neurological system far exceeds that of a general practioner

Our Dixie had PT after back surgery and I believe he recovered as well as he did due to that therapy.

Samantha was a rescue who was partially paralyzed, physical therapy helped her enough that she is now 90% healed and is in a forever home

We need collaboration. We DVMs value the PTs, and we should ALL be able to practice on animals.

PTs can offer a variety of skills that improve animal well being and improved mobility following injury or disease.