This issue, assemled by Drs. Levine, Marcellin-Little, and Millis focuses on Rehabilitation in small animals. Topics include: Evidence for rehabilitation and physical therapy, Physical Agent Modalities in physical therapy and rehabilitation, Therapeutic Laser in physical therapy and rehabilitation, Principles and application of Stretching and Range of Motion, Principles and application of therapeutic exercises, Nutritional considerations in Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation and physical therapy of the medical and acute care patient, and more!
Tannerstedt J, Apro W, Blomstrand E: Maximal lengthening contractions induce different signaling response in the type I and type II fibers of human skeletal muscle, JAppl Physiol 106(4):1412-1418, 2009. Greene CE, Lorenz MD, ...
Physical rehabilitation is a burgeoning area in veterinary medicine, and the Clinics has not covered this area before.
ORTHOBIOLOGICS Agent The term orthobiologics can be further divided into 2 broad categories, blood-derived products and stem cells. Blood-derived products include platelet-rich plasma, autologous conditioned plasma, ...
This issue is an eclectic compilation of some of the most popular topics among readers of this Clinics series.
In: Withrow S.J., Vail D.M., Page R.L., eds. Withrow and MacEwen's small animal clinical oncology. 5th edition. ... a screening test for transitional cell carcinoma of the lower urinary tract in dogs. Am J Vet Res. 2003; 64:1017–1020.
Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract 2015;45:45–56. Durant A, Millis DL. Applications of extracorporeal shockwave in small animal rehabilitation. In: Millis DL, Levine D, editors. Canine rehabilitation and physical therapy. 2nd edition.
Cerebrovascular diseases. In: Wonsiewicz MJ, Medina MP, Navrozov M, editors. Adams and Victor's principles of neurology. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2001. p. 821–924. Adams HP, Hachinski V, Norris JW. Ischemic cerebrovascular disease.
Nutrition, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, E-Book
National nosocomial infections surveillance system (NNIS): description of surveillance methods. Am J Infect Control 1991;19(1):19–35. Gould D. Infection control practice: interview with 20 nurses reveals themes of rationalising their ...
This issue highlights the advances in neurological treatments for dogs and cats.