Designed for rehabilitation professionals, this workbook combines current evidence, clinical reasoning, and structured treatment planning to help you confidently manage dogs with degenerative myelopathy—from early ambulatory changes through advanced, non-ambulatory disease.
Includes:
• Functional Level 1–4 rehabilitation considerations based on degree of functional decline
• Dos, Don’ts, and Red Flags
• Functional decline criteria and objective reassessment guidelines
• Goal-oriented treatment plans for each functional level
• Task-specific locomotor training, strengthening, balance, and assistive mobility strategies
• Stage-appropriate underwater treadmill clinical use guidelines
• Caregiver support and quality-of-life considerations for progressive disease
• Therapeutic exercise cross-references to GoGoCharlie® home program templates
• Dedicated Notes sections for individualized treatment planning and patient progress
• Addendums with UWT and Neurodevelopmental Sequencing guidelines
Managing a patient with progressive loss of mobility? This protocol provides specific rehabilitation strategies for approaching non-ambulation and advanced disease, including supported locomotion, assistive devices, positioning, transfers, secondary complication prevention, and caregiver support.
Designed for rehabilitation professionals, this workbook combines current evidence, clinical reasoning, and structured treatment planning to help you confidently manage dogs with degenerative myelopathy—from early ambulatory changes through advanced, non-ambulatory disease.
Includes:
• Functional Level 1–4 rehabilitation considerations based on degree of functional decline
• Dos, Don’ts, and Red Flags
• Functional decline criteria and objective reassessment guidelines
• Goal-oriented treatment plans for each functional level
• Task-specific locomotor training, strengthening, balance, and assistive mobility strategies
• Stage-appropriate underwater treadmill clinical use guidelines
• Caregiver support and quality-of-life considerations for progressive disease
• Therapeutic exercise cross-references to GoGoCharlie® home program templates
• Dedicated Notes sections for individualized treatment planning and patient progress
• Addendums with UWT and Neurodevelopmental Sequencing guidelines
Managing a patient with progressive loss of mobility? This protocol provides specific rehabilitation strategies for approaching non-ambulation and advanced disease, including supported locomotion, assistive devices, positioning, transfers, secondary complication prevention, and caregiver support.
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