Rehabilitation and Conditioning for Animals

I’ve been a client of Rehab and Conditioning since last November (2014). My ⁹⁄₁₀ year old heeler had/​has a knee injury. In lieu of surgery, I decided to seek out a specialist to help and educate me on my dog’s injury and rehab plan. Deborah is great! She’s smart and knowledgeable. She listens. She helps me to learn more so that I know how to work with my dog and gives me options for his recovery plans/​schedules. Specifically, she works with my schedule — both with how to do exercises and also for scheduling meetings to review progress. She is even available for phone and email consults — where I can send her videos of progress and get her feedback. I would recommend to any owner who is working with an animal who has an injury to seek out Deborah. She’s wonderful and if you follow her advice and her program, I have total confidence in saying that she will be so helpful to you and your pet. Thank you Deborah. I have so much gratitude for your help, your patience, your knowledge, all of your support during this journey in my boy’s life!

Our Corgi mix Ike became ill with a relapse of canine distemper shortly after his second birthday. The resurgence of the virus damaged and killed his neurons so Ike lost his balance, his sight and eventually other body control. In the early months, Deborah Carroll was a great help. She prescribed exercises to do with Ike, had recommendations for making a supportive harness so that Ike could go on short walks more normally, and in her weekly visits, she was attentive to changes in Ike and served as a liason to help us on when to make the next frequent visit to the vet. She also gave frank guidance when we got closer to the tough decision on when to euthanize Ike, as his health deteriorated and with medical options also exhausted. Besides her extensive knowledge of the application of physical therapy to animals, I also wish to commend Deborah for incorporating mental health of the patient as part of her practice. I fully recommend Deborah as a sincere, highly capable and experienced professional within the field of animal care.

I am not a very verbose person, but I have to say we really enjoyed working with Carroll. Our 5 year old German Shepherd mix was having back issues. She gave us some great advice and treatment. Much of it we were able to do ourselves. Our dog now seems completely better and even did his longest jump at Dock Dogs recent. We still don’t let him jump in the car or do physical tricks, but he is acting like a younger dog and is MUCH happier. We were extremely satisfied with the services Carroll supplied.