Prehab, Prehab, What the heck is Prehab, for animals?!
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
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
Instructor
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- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 24 Reviews
- 91 Students
- 3 Courses
Donna Wills PGC A Phys, RVN, MIRVAPT (VP). Member of IAAT, and BVNA - Founder of Animal Physiotherapy Ltd. Registered with the RCVS
Donna Wills, an animal physiotherapist, who passed her post-graduate qualification in animal physiotherapy with distinction in 2005. Prior to this she qualified as a veterinary nurse. Donna is registered with the RCVS (royal collage of veterinary surgeons). Donna offers physiotherapy to all animals in need of the therapeutic touch.
Her nursing work also included specialising in emergency and critical care nursing for a time. Donna has worked in this profession for many years and is a member of BVNA (British veterinary nursing association).
Donna has a life time experience in working with many species including domestic pets, equine and farm animals. She has also cared for many exotic and zoo animals. Most recently she spent a week furthering her ability and treating Elephants in Thailand.
As part of her training in physiotherapy Donna had to write a dissertation. For this she did an extensive study into the effect of pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) in the canine suffering with osteoarthritis. This study did help to prove its effectiveness. She was delighted to find that treatment using this new technique had a significant positive effect on animals suffering with osteoarthritis. She also achieved a distinction for this study!
Donna is now an accredited practical trainer and mentor for new animal physiotherapists. She has also done many lectures in this field.
Member of the International Association of Animal Therapists
Member of The British Veterinary Nursing Association
Registered with the Royal Collage of veterinary surgeons (RCVS)
Member of the Institute of Registered Veterinary and Animal Physiotherapists (IRVAPT)
Donna has been the driving force for the company and has done large amounts in promoting the effects of physiotherapy to the general public and veterinary professionals alike. She has covered large areas of the south of the UK, but has down sized to make space for family life. Donna was even head hunted to provide the service for Harrods, London when they had the pet spa there.
At the pet spa at Harrods, Donna delivered both physio therapy and luxury massage, refining her skill in massage and calming.
Donna has grown in the profession to become a known name, and even has her own DVD now. She is well established and many vets rely on her for their patients physiotherapy needs.
Donna Wills has lectured at the following establishments:
Multiple veterinary practices
BVNA Congress
BVNA regional meeting
Improve international in the UK and in Denmark
Excel, London - Rehabilitation congress
Dog owner education Show
Training collage of Animal Physiotherapy
Justo Development
Donna Has also written multiple professional articles for several publications including:
Veterinary nursing times several times
Veterinary Times
Veterinary nursing Journal
Animal Therapy Magazine
More famously you may have seen her on the T.V. as she has appeared on Ch4 Sunday brunch and Crufts extra, ITV Allan Titchmarsh Show and daybreak. She has also been featured on BBC London radio 3 times. There has been multiple publication globally, that have featured her work in this industry.
Donna is now also a Mentor for the Online pet health Mentorship program and has 5 mentees.