Our Services
Within our modern hospital is the equipment and technical staff needed to furnish state-of-the-art preventative medicine, diagnostics, treatments and surgical procedures.
Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation (VOM)
Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation (VOM) is a healing technology that locates areas of the animal's nervous system that has fallen out of communication, and re-establishes neuronal communication and thus induces healing. VOM is singularly the most simple, effective and safe healing modality in verterinary care to date. For the VOM practitioner it is an exquisite objective, fast and easy to apply technology that takes minimum amount of time to master and whose scope of application has yet to be fully appreciated.
Veterinary Cold Laser Therapy
Other common names:
Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT), Low Power Laser Therapy (LPLT), Soft Laser, Bio Stimulation Laser, Theraputic Laser, Laser Acupuncture.
Description/Overview:
Veterinary cold laser therapy (VCLT) developed by William L. Inman DVM, CVCP, is the culmination of over 20 years of experience and application of healing techniques using a non-cutting or "cold" laser on human beings and animals.
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Digital Radiology:
- Wireless Predtablets
- Instant images (4 seconds to display)
- Instant enhancements
- Instant reporting with images and text
- Instant hospital wide distribution
- Instant archival and web-based sharing
- VetPacs Internet Radiology Service
- FDA cleared service
Ultrasound
What Is Ultrasound?
All ultrasounds operate on the principle of sound. This technology is used to view tissue and fluid inside the body. Ultrasounds "see" things very similar to how bats see at night. A high-pitched sound frequency is sent and received. The time it takes for that echo to return to the source can be used to determine the distance between the source of signal and the source of the echo. The ultrasound scan converter then converts these sound signals into an image that is visualized on a monitor.
Veterinary Ultrasound
Beginning in the early 1980's, ultrasound scanning has been used to diagnose many disease processes in small animals. Ultrasound is gaining more and more ground and being utilized more every day. The reason for this is the diagnosis and staging of many diseases.
Why Ultrasound?
Ultrasound allows us to visualize the internal architecture of many organs. Radiographically unapparent internal abnormalities such as masses, cysts, and abcesses cannot only be seen, but can also be counted and measured. Many organs that are difficult to see on plain film radiographs (ex:prostate) can be easily seen with ultrasound. Real-time echocardiography (ultrasound examination of the heart) also allows use to see the heart in motion. From these images, measurements of cardiac contractility, areas of abnormal wall motion, chamber dilatation and wall thickening are made and compared to normal values. Usually ultrasound exams do not require sedation or anesthesia. The only patient preparation necessary is clipping of the hair overlying the area to be scanned because ultrasound will not penetrate through hair.
What Can I See With Ultrasound?
Ultrasound is best at diagnosing abnormalities that are discrete. An example of this type of lesion would include a mass (tumor) in the liver. Once found, the mass can be accurately measured for later comparision. If the mass is found in an organ that is not required (such as the spleen) careful examination of the other organs (such as the liver) for the presence of metastasis disease (tumor spread) is needed prior to surgical removal of the "expendable" organ. Ultrasound is used to diagnose a variety of both benign and malignant diseases such as the presence of stones with in the urinary bladder, kidneys, or gall bladder, infection of the gall bladder, urinary bladder, prostate or kidneys, the presence of enlarges lymph nodes, abnormal blood vessels, thickening of the intestines or free fluid within the abdomen. It is especially good in diagnosing disease of the pancreas (pancreatitis) adrenal abnormalities, urinary bladder wall tumors, and uterine infections (pyometra). Ultrasound can often diffferentiate prostatic enlargement from prostatic cancer. In animals with a history of vomiting, ultrasound can be used to evaluate if the problem is within the liver, gall bladder, or pancreas. It can often see an intestinal foreign body, thus preventing a labor intensive and costly upper gastrointestinal barium study.The diagnosis of pregnancy and fetal viability (heartbeats) are commonly seen by 21 days post-conception with ultrasound, which is much earlier than can be done with x-rays (42 days). In the heart, ultrasound is at its best, as the heart is a fluid filled organ. Using this diagnostic tool can help to identify the cause of a pet’s heart murmur. Heart base tumors, which are rarely seen on radiographs, are easily visualized with ultrasonography. Kidneys are another organ that helps veterinarians in their treatment as it is essential is determining the duration of disease (acute versus chronic). Ultrasound often diagnoses problems earlier than would otherwise be possible. This often affords an earlier diagnosis for better chance of successful treatment.
Canine Vaccinal Titers (CVT)
With the advent of preventative medicine, one of the biggest questions looming over our heads is whether annual vaccines are a necessity.Those who don't vaccinate at all must accept the risk that their furry friends will catch a preventable infectious disease. Those who over vaccinate must accept the risk of side effects such as vaccine reaction and chronic diseases.
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Veterinary Myofascial Release (VMR)
Veterinary Myofascial Release is a new technique that has grown out of the VOM technology. The term "myofascial" refers to the muscle, "myo", and the connective tissue that surrounds and attaches the muscle, "fascia", hence "myofascial"
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Neoplasene-The Cancer Alternative
Cancer is among the leading causes of death in our pet population, and once the cancer is discovered, treatment options are usually limited. Thankfully, there are alternatives.
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