The University of Tennessee
University Outreach and Continuing Education
Canine II Vet: Physical/Electrotherapeutic Modalities
This course is required for veterinarians and veterinary technicians and actively enrolled students in these fields.
This course is not required of physical therapists or physical therapist assistants or actively enrolled students in one of these fields but it can be used to fulfill the Canine V requirement.
Prerequisites
Participant must:
Participant must be a veterinarian, veterinary technician, physical therapist, physical therapist assistant or an actively enrolled student in on of these fields.
C ourse Description:
This course will provide the participant with the didactic and clinical applications of selected physical agent modalities used in canine physical rehabilitation. Superficial heating and cooling agents, therapeutic ultrasound, extra corporeal shock wave treatment, cold lasers and neuromuscular electrical stimulation will be covered in the lecture, with laboratories to practice using the modalities.
Seminar Outline:
- Introduction to physical agents
- Soft tissue responses to injury
- Properties of connective tissue
- Acute and chronic inflammation
- Biophysical properties of heat
- Biophysical properties of cold
- Superficial heating agents
- Deep heating agents
- Cryotherapy
- Electrical Stimulation
- Other emerging modalities
- Protocol development