What is Clinical Canine Massage?
What is Canine Massage?
Canine Massage therapy is an effective hands-on, non-invasive complementary therapy, delivering 4 disciplines of massage:
Swedish Massage
Sports Massage
Deep tissue
Myofascial release
What sets me apart from other Canine Massage Therapists is that I use 7 Lenton® Method protocols to enhance the massage.
Do all dogs benefit from Canine Massage? The answer is YES.
- Pets: Canine Massage can help with activities of daily living. Such as healing injuries caused by slipping on floors, chasing a ball, and being unable to stretch out fully when resting.
- Agility, Flyball or Cani-cross Dogs: Canine Massage can help these dogs pre-warm up and during recovery and rehabilitation after events.
- Working dogs, Service dogs and Therapy dogs: Canine massage is a full-body experience which benefits the dog's physical and mental well.
Canine Massage will help to support your dog throughout life.
Canine massage benefits dogs that are recovering from an injury. For example, therapy helps dogs feel more comfortable and recover quicker from a sprained ligament, strained muscle, or tendon, dogs recovering from surgery or, dogs living with long-term orthopaedic conditions such as Arthritis, Hip/ Elbow dysplasia or Cruciate Ligament Damage
We can back ourselves up
In Clinical Trials conducted by the University of Winchester, 95% of dogs responded positively to Clinical Canine Massage Therapy. Improvements to your dog’s mobility, activity levels and pain management are often seen in just 1-3 treatments.
What are the Benefits of Canine Massage?
Dogs benefit from massage in just the same way humans do. Clinical Canine Massage...
Improves
Mobility, gait, posture, stiffness, joint function, range of movement.
Increases
Energy, zest for life, comfort levels.
Addresses
Hip, back, shoulder and neck issues.
Muscular overcompensation, pain, soreness.
Reduces
Inflammation, stress & anxiety.
Works with
Other complementary therapies.
What can I expect from the sessions?
1st session: 1hr30mins.
- Getting to know your dog. A chat about your dog's daily habits inside and outside the home.
- Medical history, vet consent form information and any concerns you may have.
- An examination of the dog's gait (walking, trotting) and how they stand (posture).
- Hands-on palpation to assess the dog's muscles. This also helps the dog, get used to me placing my hands on them and realising it’s not a scary experience.
- Full massage. Depending on the dog, the massage will last between 45mins – 60mins
Follow-up sessions: 60mins
Massage will be used to address the area of concern or just to enjoy a maintenance massage.
Session costs
1st Session £50.00, follow-up sessions £40.00
Canine Massage can help
If your dog shows signs of any of the following symptoms, massage will be able to help.
- Stiffness
- Soreness
- Unable to go up/down stairs
- Unable to get in/out of car
- Mobility issues
- Lost their ‘sparkle’
- Depression
- Stress & anxiety
- Posture changes
- Coat changes
- Skin twitches
- Old before their time
- Unwilling to go for walks
- Back/neck/hip issues
- Agility performance issues, e.g., pole knocking, measuring