Can’t they just swim in the lake? What’s the difference?

Hydrotherapy is a subset of swimming. Hydrotherapy is a controlled swim that aims to help dogs with physical conditions/ issues and to help them to recover their full fitness. The hydrotherapist employs methods to correct your dog’s swim movement or triggers body motions with their fingers.

Hydrotherapy treatment must be conducted in a temperature controlled heated pool. The pool water maintains a temperature of around 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Common recreational water sources do not have this feature which is critical in hydrotherapy.

Hydrotherapy pool water is maintained and managed by trained pool management personnel. The health & safety standard of the pool water is enforced so that your dogs and our hydrotherapist are safe swimming in the water. When you swim in the sea, you are exposed to many medical issues such beach diarrhea (by ingesting too much salt water), vomiting, jellyfish sting, insect’s bites, Leptospirosis to name a few.

Certified and qualified hydrotherapist conducts hydrotherapy treatment. They must be trained by qualified hydrotherapist trainer from a reputable and recognised school that provides hydrotherapy for small animals training. To swim a dog with physical/ medical issues without the proper knowledge, training and method may lead to more harm for your dog. Their conditions may worsen due to the lack of awareness and understanding of the medical/ physical conditions.

If your dog is injured or otherwise compromised, recreational swimming may not be appropriate, and hydrotherapy is necessary for your dog to get back into the pool. In hydrotherapy, we understand the conditions and manage/ control the dog’s swimming positions and movement. In this way, we get the better responses and result from the controlled swim instead of letting the dog swim freely and doing the wrong actions and further aggravating their conditions with each swim..