ASH Offers New Treatment Options

Naples-based Animal Specialty Hospital of Florida expanded its physical rehabilitation and fitness center, installing an Oasis Underwater Treadmill. This hydrotherapy system gives patients the best opportunity to recover from surgical, arthritic, geriatric and chronically debilitating diseases and conditions.

ASH of Florida’s physical rehabilitation team designs treatment programs focusing on sports medicine, performance optimization, fitness, weight management, surgery recovery and chronic illness alleviation. It offers outpatient consultations, as well as tailored physical rehabilitation sessions to hospitalized, post-operative and incapacitated critical care patients.

In addition to the new state-of-the-art underwater treadmill, the physical

rehabilitation and fitness center at Animal Specialty Hospital of Florida features a suite of industry-leading equipment and services including: therapeutic ultrasound; transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS); neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES); massage therapy; balance and coordination training; strengthening exercises and gait training.

ASH is Collier County’s only veterinary facility that is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – even during natural disasters. As one of the area’s largest and most technologically advanced animal hospitals, it is staffed with board-certified specialists in cardiology, critical care and emergency medicine, dermatology, surgery, internal medicine and ophthalmology.