New Braunfels, TX
Pet Rehabilitation Services
Underwater Treadmill
Hydrotherapy can consist of both underwater treadmill and swimming pool therapies. It utilizes the warmth, buoyancy and resistance of water in a controlled environment to provide an optimal setting for physical rehabilitation. Hydrotherapy can decrease recovery time from surgery, improve pain from arthritis through low impact exercise and enhance cardiovascular fitness.
Electrical Stimulation
Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation is the use of an electrical current to help stimulate muscle tissues in the target area to contract. NMES sends electrical impulses to nerves, causing muscles to contract. It can be used to prevent muscle atrophy, offsetting the effects of disuse that may occur after surgery or injury.
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) decreases pain and inflammation by providing a low level electrical current which disrupts the normal pain perception pathways.
Therapeutic Laser
Laser therapy, or “photobiomodulation,” is the use of specific wavelengths of light to create therapeutic effects. It is a drug-free, surgery-free solution to improve healing time, increase circulation, relieve pain, reduce swelling and increase range of motion.
During each painless treatment, laser energy increases circulation, drawing water, oxygen, and nutrients to the damaged area. This creates an optimal healing environment that reduces inflammation, swelling, muscle spasms, stiffness, and pain.
For most conditions, we recommend a multi-visit treatment plan. Treatments vary in length, but most sites require 2 to 8 minutes. A majority of patients exhibit greater comfort and mobility within 12 to 24 hours after a laser treatment.
Therapeutic Ultrasound
Ultrasound uses sound waves to create heating (thermal effects) and vibration (non-thermal effects) to affect tissue healing. Ultrasound is beneficial for various conditions, including wounds, tendon and ligament damage, muscle relaxation, restricted range of motion and scar tissue, inflammation, localized swelling, and pain.
Shockwave Therapy
We provide shockwave therapy utilizing Piezowave vet to deliver acoustic waves to mechanically stimulate deep tissues in a focused and precise manner to trigger the body’s self healing process. Piezo shockwave helps to locate and alleviate musculoskeletal pain, stimulates natural cellular healing processes, remodels tissue, and is non-invasive and holistic.
Nutritional Counseling
Diet is an often overlooked part of a pet’s overall health and wellbeing. It should come as no surprise that what your pet eats, as well as how much they eat, directly impacts their health. Achieving the right nutritional balance will allow your pet to better manage any existing medical conditions and significantly improve their quality of life.
Specially Designed Exercises
Exercise can benefit patients in many ways. It can assist in increasing range of motion, stability, endurance and strength. Exercise improves balance, motor control, proprioception and flexibility. Our veterinarians use exercises to help normalize muscle tone, reduce pain, promote functional independence.
Therapeutic exercise is a key component of any rehabilitation program for a variety of ailments. It is the basis treatment for animals that are obese, and is commonly a component of a total treatment plan for numerous other problems. Therapeutic exercise includes activities and techniques to improve physical function and overall health.
In physical rehabilitation, programs may be developed to treat injuries, to stimulate healing of the injuries, and to enhance reconditioning of the injured segment. Because of the biomechanical forces acting on the body during the reparative phases of healing, certain segments may become stronger than other segments. Exercise programs should be implemented to remedy any conditioning imbalances of the body. The basic goals should be to allow the tissues to heal, then to recondition the tissues so that they can accept predetermined
workloads, and finally to recondition the entire body to balance any conditioning deficits.
Stretching can also be use to improve flexibility and promote better range of motion, better circulation, and provide more oxygen to muscles.
Massage
Massage therapy is a series of manual techniques used to improve a patient’s physical and emotional well-being. Physiological benefits of massage include pain relief, improved joint mobility, relaxation and increased circulation.
Stretching
Stretching can be use to improve flexibility and promote better range of motion, better circulation, and provide more oxygen to muscles.
tPEMF
tPEMF therapy uses targeted pulsing electromagnetic fields to speed healing, reduce inflammation and provide pain relief. PEMF therapy can be delivered via mats, jackets and even portable loops.
Stem Cells and PRP
Regenerative medicine uses the body’s own cells and proteins to promote healing. These substances can be harvested from bone marrow or adipose tissue and are then injected into joints and soft tissues such as tendons and ligaments in the form of stem cells and/or platelet-rich-plasma (PRP.)
Custom Orthotics & Prosthetics
Sometimes surgery is not an option or a surgery may not completely correct a condition. Custom braces and orthotics are often used as part of therapy to help an animal ambulate and to provide comfort.
Cart Fitting
Snoopy getting fitted for a cart
For years, people watched helplessly as their beloved four-legged family members lost their ability to walk due to aging, injury, or disease. No longer able to get exercise or do their business, our best friends suffered. Whether your pet can’t walk due to old age, injury, or illness, we offer numerous wheelchair options for dogs from 2 to 180 lbs. to help your pet live a happy active life.
Dry Needling
At Infinite PawsAbilities, we offer a unique form of physical therapy that helps decrease musculoskeletal pain in dogs!
In canine physical therapy, numerous manual therapies are utilized to decrease a pet's musculoskeletal pain. Trigger point dry needling is such a technique. Therapeutic, trigger point dry needling aims to reduce your dog's myofascial pain caused by myofascial trigger points and the resulting muscle spasm and dysfunction.
Dry needling is a general term for a therapeutic procedure that involves multiple advances of a filament needle (sterile needle) into the myofascial trigger points.
Dry needling is not an injection, but sterile placed needles that deactivate the trigger point (or knotted muscle), thereby reducing pain and restoring regular length and function of the involved muscle. Dry needling is an effective treatment for acute and chronic pain, rehabilitation from injury, and even pain and injury prevention, with very few side effects.
Dry needling also benefits the immune, inflammatory, biochemical, vascular, and neurological systems. Dry needling is extremely effective at eliminating canine neuromuscular dysfunction that leads to pain and functional deficits.
The Difference Between Dry Needling and Acupuncture
- Dry needling is a technique that emphasizes treating the neuro-musculoskeletal systems based on pain patterns, muscular dysfunction, and other orthopedic signs and symptoms.
- Dry needling relies upon the time of treatment of physical examination and assessment to guide treatment.
- Acupuncture is a treatment based on eastern medical diagnosis, requiring training in Chinese medicine.
- Acupuncture is the stimulation of specific acupuncture points along the skin of the body. According to traditional Chinese medicine, stimulating specific acupuncture points corrects imbalances in the flow of qi through channels known as meridans.
Joint Injections
Joint injections are use as part of a multimodal approach to pain management and arthritis. They allow us to relieve arthritic pain by reducing friction and improving shock absorption properties inside the joints. With Joint Injections we are treating the actual cause of your pet's pain rather than simply masking the symptoms.
- Spryng™ is administered using a sterile needle inserted into the synovial space of an affected joint and is appropriate for use in joint locations throughout the body. Spryng™ is not a drug and does not rely on pharmaceutical, chemical or metabolic action to achieve the intended effects.
- Synovetin OA is dosed directly into the elbow joint, right where the pain is. There, it targets the source of inflammation that leads to pain and causes your dog to limp. Synovetin OA is unique in that it treats only the affected joint(s) and is not absorbed into your dog’s body like traditional dog arthritis treatments. You can be confident that treatment with Synovetin OA is safe for relieving arthritis pain in dogs.
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
Ultrasound imaging uses sound waves to produce pictures of muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves and joints throughout the body. It is used to help diagnose sprains, strains, tears, trapped nerves, arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions. Ultrasound is safe, noninvasive, and does not use ionizing radiation.
This procedure requires little to no special preparation. With an increasing awareness of soft tissue injury by veterinarians specializing in canine sports medicine, orthopedics, and rehabilitation, diagnostic ultrasound is now being utilized to diagnose them.
There are multiple advantages over other diagnostic imaging modalities for the evaluation of soft tissue injuries in dogs and cats:

- Does not require anesthesia
- Lower cost than MRI (easier, more frequent rechecks)
- Significant amount of detail in multiple angles can be obtained by ultrasound of the affected structure
- clear picture of soft tissues that do not show up well on x-ray images
AIS PennHip Hip Dysplasia Screening
Snoopy getting fitted for a cart
AIS PennHIP testing is accurate in puppies as young as 16 weeks of age. It gives an estimate of the risk for painful osteoarthritis (OA) of canine hip dysplasia (CHD) later in life. With this information, preventive and palliative strategies can be recommended by the PennHIP-trained veterinarian.
All dogs can benefit from PennHIP testing. For pet dogs found to be at risk to develop hip OA, early intervention can help prevent or lessen the severity of CHD. For working/service dogs, identifying a dog with healthy hips can extend the working life of the dog. For breeding dogs, early detection of at-risk hips can allow the breeder to make early, informed decisions as to which dogs to keep in breeding programs.
Librela -
Canine Osteoarthritis Treatment
Librela is the first and only monthly anti-NGF monoclonal antibody injection to provide long-term canine OA pain control.
- Approved as safe and effective and provides long-term canine OA pain control.
- A monthly subcutaneous injection, administered at the clinic by veterinary professionals.
- Reduced canine OA pain, which led to increased activity to help improve quality of life.
County Line Veterinary Clinic is the only clinic in the area that has early access to this revolutionary new treatment for canine arthritis.
Infinite PawsAbilities
1445 S Walnut Ave. Ste. 110
New Braunfels, TX 78130