Providing quality physiotherapy services for your animal throughout Oxfordshire
Providing quality physiotherapy services for your animal throughout Oxfordshire
Dog Physio and Horse Physio at your home.
Nycky Edleston and her 3 colleagues are highly qualified Veterinary Physiotherapists. We specialise in the treatment and physical rehabilitation of dogs, horses, cats and other animals at your home within Oxfordshire. We are ACPAT and RAMP registered Veterinary Physiotherapists and this ensures top class physio is provided for your animal.
Veterinary Physiotherapists are movement specialists and provide treatments to optimise quality pain-free movements for animals.
Physiotherapy will
- Provide Rehabilitation after an operation to limbs or back
- Reduce pain, discomfort and stiffness
- Reduce muscle tension and soreness
- Provide rehabilitation after spinal injury in pets
- Provide Rehabilitation after injury to tendons, ligaments or muscle
- Improve athletic performance and reduce risk of injury
- Improve quality of life for older animals
Animals will compensate for pain or injury and hence over-use other parts of their body, increasing risk of injury to them. Physiotherapy provided early in the healing process will reduce pain, improve healing quality, improve functional movement and reduce movement compensations. Most animals try hard to hide pain and so their discomfort is often more than you can see.
As ACPAT physios we have been trained to the gold standard of the veterinary physio industry. We are qualified to treat people as well as animals and have at least 5 years of formal physiotherapy training to masters level under our belt.
We provide physiotherapy and rehabilitation for pets and sporting athletes, old or young at your place. Nycky Edleston, Leanne Baker, Nicole Austin and Kaye Hillsdon all work under the Classic Physiotherapy banner so that we can cover all of Oxfordshire.
Contact us to find out how we can help your animal.
TheraPaw UK carpal and tarsal splints
Nycky Edleston is trained to design and craft TheraPaw Custom Carpal and Tarsal supports and splints. For more info THERAPAW UK
ACPAT Physios are registered with The Association of Chartered physiotherapists in Animal Therapy (ACPAT). We first learnt our physio skills on people and then were trained to do those same techniques on animals. To qualify to treat animals as an ACPAT Physio, training includes first a degree in human physiotherapy with over 1000 hours hands on physiotherapy skills training, and then working as a physio with people. This is followed by a 2 years post-graduate masters level training at the Royal Veterinary College or Hartpury University to translate those skills and knowledge across to animals. This extensive training provides the ACPAT Physiotherapist with a combination of hands on physiotherapy assessment and treatment skills with veterinary based knowledge of musculoskeletal function and injury in animals. Nycky started Classic Physiotherapy in 2011 to treat animals in Oxfordshire.
Chartered Physiotherapist
As Chartered physios we have all worked as Physios for people. Nycky has worked in Neurology ,the elderly, people with a complex disability, orthopaedics and musculoskeletal conditions. Nicole continues to work in Emergency Departments, Kaye in specialist Neurological Services and Leanne with horse riders. We use many of the skills, knowledge and research from human physiotherapy to optimise the movement of animals large and small.
RAMP – Register of Animal Musculoskeletal Practitioners
The RAMP register aims to endorse best practice and gold standard methods in the industry of animal neuromusculoskeletal therapy. RAMP was established in September 2016 and is a voluntary register intended to help veterinary surgeons and animal owners choose professionals providing chiropractic, osteopathic and physiotherapy techniques who are regulated for the treatment of animals. As ACPAT Physiotherapists we meet RAMP’s Gold Standard in practice, training and continuing professional development so both vet and owner can be assured of the best physiotherapy for the animal.