Maeve Grant is a Chartered Veterinary Physiotherapist based in Edinburgh, providing equine and canine physiotherapy and rehabilitation in central Scotland.

Animals, like people, respond to physiotherapy. The purpose of physiotherapy is to restore and maintain mobility, function, independence and performance.

Physiotherapy can help your animal by relieving pain, increasing mobility and promoting healing. Animals who have had orthopaedic surgery or are suffering with pain and stiffness caused by arthritis can benefit dramatically from physiotherapy input. Animals may display obvious signs of pain such as lameness, crying and inability to do normal activities. Often animals only display subtle signs of pain or discomfort such as a change in behaviour, a change in performance, stiffness or a change in their normal movement pattern. Physiotherapy is extremely useful in assessing these animals and providing the correct treatment or referring to the vet if there is an underlying condition. In the sporting animal, physiotherapy can help to achieve and maintain optimal performance levels.

Each animal will be fully assessed and an individually tailored treatment and exercise plan will be made to address your horse or dog’s specific problems.

Physiotherapy treatments used by Maeve include:

• Exercises – to improve strength, stability, flexibility and balance, both during the treatment sessions and an individually tailored exercise programme to be done at home.
• Manual therapy – may include soft tissue manipulation, joint mobilisation, massage and myofascial release techniques.
• Electrotherapy - may include electrical muscle stimulation, ultrasound, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and pulsed magnetic therapy.
• Advice – on how to manage and improve the condition and adaptations to the home environment to help your animal.

Due to their university training Chartered Physiotherapists have a strong scientific background and work closely with the Veterinary profession to ensure the correct diagnosis and treatment of animals.

Chartered Veterinary Physiotherapists only work with veterinary referral or consent and have professional and public liability insurance.

Veterinary physiotherapy is covered by most insurance companies.

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