LASER Clincs/Sessions
LASER therapy is a great way to help make your animal more comfortable from chronic conditions such as arthritis or reducing tension from compensatory muscles. Wound healing whether your animal is post surgery or has created a wound on their paw from knuckling is another benefit of LASER. For more information on how it works click the link here!
Why Doesn't ER Vet Physio Offer Stand Alone LASER Sessions
Although LASER works really well, ER Vet Physio feels that to get an optimum treatment it should coincide with the other therapies and exercise prescription that are on offer.
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ER Vet Physio also want to be able to able to provide what ever your animal needs at the time rather, than you as an owner having to be worried about the costs of additional services.
What are Some Potential Differences Between LASER With ER Vet Physio and my Vets?
Often LASER at a vet practice is provided by a veterinary nurse, as a result vet nurses are generally not trained in the same depth regarding massage and exercise prescription that a veterinary physiotherapist tends to be. This is why it is so important to know who is providing the LASER session.​​
If your animal is requiring LASER for helping with pain management, it is not uncommon for your animal to some muscle weakness. By having a physiotherapy session ER Vet Physio can give you some targeted exercises to help increase their strength. Long-term this can help with comfort levels, to hopefully reduce them over compensate through other parts of their body.
LASER being a form of light therapy means that it can be absorbed other by not just the targeted area, but things like hair as well.
Generally vet practices using LASERs classified as a class 4. ER Vet Physio uses a class 3B LASER. Depending on what research is read, it can be discussed that class 4 devices can penetrate deeper than the lower classes. However, generally class 4 LASERs are not able to be placed directly on the skin do their power, ER Vet Physio argues if you cannot place the probe directly on the skin how much of the targeted area is receiving the LASER dose VS the the enrichment and undesired areas.
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With ER Vet Physio's 3B LASER we are able to part the hair and angle the probe so that the targeted area can receive, as much of the optimum dose as possible.
ER Vet physio does not charge per area and will LASER all the joints/area that require it. Particularly with chronic conditions or older animals, they can compensation through multiple areas, so ER Vet Physio feels that it is important to target those areas too.
As we use a 3B LASER and the LASER beam is only switched on when the probe is on the targeted area, we don't require your animal to wear doggles/eye protection. From our risk assessment we believe that the stress from wearing eye protraction is greater than the risk of LASER causing damage to an eye with the LASER procedure we use. Please feel free to ask us more about our procedures.