Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation for Cats and Other Animals
Every animal deserves to live a life free from pain, but treating cats, lifestyle animals, and unique wildlife requires a deeply adaptive approach.
Because you know your animal best, your input is a vital piece of the clinical puzzle. Whether it’s an owner noting that a goat's subtle teeth-grinding is a sign of stress, or a cat parent spotting a tiny shift in routine, we deeply respect that you understand their language in ways an outsider cannot.
Whether we are managing a lifestyle animal's osteoarthritis, supporting major feline post-surgical healing, or assisting in native wildlife rehabilitation, our work is a true partnership—combining our advanced clinical skills with your unmatched knowledge to deliver gentle, safe, and trusted care.
Gentle Physiotherapy for Comfort and Movement
Cats are highly sensitive and almost always prefer their own owners to unfamiliar humans. Because of this, an essential part of our feline treatment is partnering directly with you. We focus on calm handling, gentle manual techniques, and targeted therapeutic modalities to relieve stiffness, restore mobility, and reduce discomfort.
Empowering the Owner: We teach and empower you to know exactly what subtle signs to look for, how to safely guide home exercises, and how to feel completely confident managing your cat’s rehabilitation.
Common Feline Conditions We Treat: Major orthopaedic trauma (including pelvic fractures, pinning, and FHO surgeries), neurological conditions, severe soft-tissue wounds, osteoarthritis, and age-related joint stiffness.
Rehabilitation for Native Wildlife and Exotic Companions
We bring our advanced, master-level clinical skills to a diverse range of unique creatures, from pocket pets to native wildlife. We fully adapt our handling strategies and therapeutic modalities to create a reassuring, highly controlled experience for species requiring specialist rehabilitation.
Exotics & Wildlife Focus: Customised rehabilitation protocols for pocket pets (such as rabbits and guinea pigs) and native wildlife (such as penguins or wild birds) recovering from trauma or illness.
Supporting a 'Good Life' and Release: We use advanced modalities like laser therapy to accelerate tissue healing, support bone healing alongside fracture management, and rebuild the strength required for a full recovery or a safe return to the wild.
Tailored Care for Lifestyle and Production Animals
Whether it is a beloved backyard goat, a lifestyle block sheep, or breeding stock, production animals face unique musculoskeletal challenges. We adapt our assessment techniques to the farm or paddock environment, focusing on keeping your animals mobile, productive, and comfortable.
Functional Soundness & Welfare: We support the physical demands of production stock, ensuring breeding animals have the structural soundness required to work, and market animals possess the comfortable mobility necessary to meet welfare-for-transport standards.
Lifestyle Block Support: Dedicated care for managing chronic conditions like osteoarthritis, building strength after structural injuries, or managing conformational changes as they age.
Collaborative Assessment: Working side-by-side with you to read their subtle behavioural shifts—ensuring their treatment is always zero-stress and perfectly tailored to their daily environment.
How to Book
Booking an appointment is simple. You can get in touch directly to discuss your animal’s needs, or ask your vet to send a referral if your cat/other animal is recovering from injury or surgery.
We’ll take the time to understand your goals, review any relevant veterinary history, and create a tailored treatment plan to support comfort, movement and recovery. Whether it’s performance, rehabilitation or quality of life care, we’re here to help every animal — and their humans — move and feel better.
Wondering if Physio is right for your animal?
You don't have to figure it out alone. Reach out for a friendly, no-obligation chat about your animal, and we can help you work out the best next steps.