Physiotherapy and rehabilitation in the "not dog or horse"
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Brief Introduction
Learning physiotherapy and rehabilitation planning for other species such as cats and rabbits. Other species too!Description
When we first become animal physiotherapists, or animal rehabilitation practitioners, the focus is on dogs and horses as they are the most explored and most popular domesticated species.
Donna Wills has had extensive experience working with many other species and has lectured on this subjects for many years.
Following this course, you will feel more confident treating cats and rabbits as they are the next most common species owned and treated.
Donna will guide you through comparing and contrasting a variety of species so you can learn to think about how to approach any specie.
There is reference to various species including Cows, Elephants, Skunks, Alpaca and Birds, to name a few.
You will feel able to recognise the importance of understanding how diet, behaviour and anatomy must all be understood to make the most effective rehabilitation plan.
This is just the start of your journey to getting to grips with treating other species and will help your confidence grow. This course is not an exhaustive list of information. On treating more exotic animals further research and updating must be done for your own safety. Ensure you keep your safety in mind at all times. This course takes no responsibility for your safety in treating other species and we would always encourage gaining more practical experience with qualified professionals, to further enhance what you learn here.
Requirements
- Requirements
- For people already qualified in animal physiotherapy, or currently enrolled and studying this qualification
Knowledge
- Physiotherapy and rehabilitation in animal species other than dogs and horses
- Focuses on cats and rabbits, as they are a common owned species, whilst exploring a variety of other species
- Compare anatomy including pedal anatomy between species
- Learn to make a rehabilitation plan for the needs of any species
- Explore behaviour, diet and the relevance of this
- Explore gait and movement variation and how we can use that to develop the rehabilitation plan
- How build rehab plans, exploring land based exercises and electrotherapies
- How to approach the patient and history taking
- Body assessment and body condition scoring
- Drugs they may have available and the complexity of that subject
- Fitness and preparing for exercise
- By the end of the course you will feel confident when you get a call for an unusual patient
- Certificate on completion
Donna Wills
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Physiotherapy and rehabilitation in the "not dog or horse"
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Learning physiotherapy and rehabilitation planning for other species such as cats and rabbits. Other species too! This course is not an exhaustive list of information....
