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Prehab, Prehab, What the heck is Prehab, for animals?!
Prehabilitation for animals. Veterinary care and successful surgical outcome is enhanced by excellent prehabilitation
Created byDonna Wills
Last updated 1/2023
English
What you'll learn
- Understand the what prehab, prehabillitation is
- Understand the importance of it and evidence of its importance
- Begin to understand how we formulate the plan for prehab so we can set ourselves and the patient up for success
- Greater detail of formulating the prehab plan including questions we ask to form the stratagy
- Managing expectations for the owners
- Understand the principles of the home exercise plan
- Understand when and how to use Ice appropriately - How RICE had been replaced with PEACE and LOVE
- Understand the importance of the exercise therapy in the plan, and the home exercise
- Defining the importance of mechanotransduction in healing and novel movements
- Recognise how long the prehab plan should be and when to shorten or lengthen that time
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Course content
5 sections • 5 lectures • 53m total length
Requirements
- Any veterinary science qualification or student
- Animal physiotherapist/osteopath/chiropractor/hydrotherapy qualified or student
- Veterinary surgeon/nurse/technician qualified or student
Description
Prehabilitation is something that is common place in the human world.
Here we learn how to implement it in the veterinary world.
Everyone has heard of rehabilitation. But what happens before this?
There is so much more we can do before surgery to ensure the best possible outcome after surgery. We can support the owner and patient mentally and physically. Prehab is diverse and includes not only an exercise plan to reduce muscle loss, but also other aspects of the life, like ensuring the owner knows how to prepare the home for the post op care and make sure they are ready for what they may have to go through.
As an animal lover and career or worker in the veterinary and rehabilitation industry, its important to see how we can support owners more, and in turn increase the successful outcome for the patients going through surgery
In this course, you will learn what prehab is and why it is so important.
You will learn the diverse nature of this phase of preparation and how it supports not only the patient but also the owner. Supporting the owner means less stress and better understanding for everyone.
You will learn the questions to ask so you can formulate a prehab plan that is bespoke for your patient.
We then move onto how we implement the plan and what aspects of the body and its healing process, we take into account and support, to ensure it is healing at its optimum rate.
We will touch on a variety of subjects within this topic and see how we can implement each area to set everyone up for success.
Who this course is for:
- Aimed at Animal physiotherapists qualified or students
- Veterinary surgeons, nurses, technicians, or students in the subject
- All animal MSK practitioners, including osteopaths, chiropractors, massage therapists, hydrotherapists etc;
- Animal Rehabilitation practitioners