When looking at pain management, we provide a holistic approach to maintaining your pets’ quality of life where surgery is not an option. Any therapy will be specifically tailored to your pet, and could include changing and optimising your pets medications, acupuncture, physical therapies or dietary and lifestyle advice.
To ensure the most effective treatment, we need to know exactly what the source of pain is that we’re managing – so an accurate diagnosis prior to referral to the pain management clinic is very important. With that in mind, we only take cases that have been assessed by our specialist services first.
When your pet is referred to the pain management clinic, the initial consultation will include a comprehensive assessment by our anaesthesia and physiotherapy team. They’ll discuss your pet’s history, collate invaluable information from a quality of life questionnaire and review your pet’s medication before performing a physical examination to confirm the source of pain and any clinical signs related to compensatory mechanisms. Our team will then discuss our findings and recommend a course of treatment that’s best for your pet.
In addition to veterinary physiotherapies including those found here, acupuncture has become increasingly popular as a treatment for managing pain.