24/11/2025
Very well said by the super lovely Karen Goodall Veterinary Physiotherapy
✔️Veterinary physiotherapists provide a referral service, complimenting treatments by veterinary surgeons, and aimed at providing quality, tailored physical therapy programs for animals to aid recovery.
❌ Veterinary physiotherapists are not veterinary surgeons and vice versa (unless they have completed both training routes separately)
The ability to provide a physiotherapy service does not come easily -there is no short course to fast track skill learning at this level. It takes:
Hundreds of hours of training to obtain skills worthy of a respected and professional qualification
- Commitment to provide the best research based treatments available.
-Dedication to ongoing CPD to ensure standards are maintained
-Compassion to treat each and every patient as if they were our own - every day with no exceptions.
🐶 Veterinary surgeons and Registered veterinary nurses also have their own rigorous training courses, and we each have very different roles in animal care. Each one invaluable, each one with a unique skill set, and each one complimenting the others.
✨Together we are a team. Together we optimise possibilities in multidisciplinary care
Together we strive for the best outcomes.
For us as individual ‘Veterinary Physiotherapists’ our job titles are not protected in the same way as vets or nurses. This means we have to work hard to earn trust from vets. We find ourselves continually justifying our qualifications, proving our right to be a part of the team and trying to educate owners on how to find an appropriately qualified practitioner.
❤️ Despite this, we continue to wear our hard earned titles with pride, driving not only as an individual clinic but also as a profession, to achieve more for our loyal companions.
