For Practicing Animal Rehabilitation Professionals
Physical Therapists and Veterinarians
Pet Professional Path
The Pet Pro Path outlines shared clinical reasoning, treatment planning, client education, and culture convergence in real-world animal rehabilitation practice.
Built with heart, grounded in evidence, shaped by clinical experience—for the care of pets.
What The Pet Professional Path Looks Like In Practice
A consistent framework to move from evaluation to treatment to client education — with clarity, in real-time.
LEARN
Understand rehabilitation concepts with clarity and confidence.
DO
Apply clinical reasoning through structured treatment planning.
EDUCATE
Support clients with clear, consistent, home-ready guidance.
Together, these tools support confident clinical reasoning, consistent care delivery, and meaningful client engagement — without adding complexity to your workflow.
Why I Built It This Way
When I first entered the field of animal rehabilitation, I didn’t have the resources I needed.
I felt uncertain and alone — which was very different from my background in evidence-based human physical therapy. In human practice, I understood the recovery process. I knew how to reason through treatment, how long progress typically took, and how to guide clients through home programs with confidence.
Animal rehabilitation was different.
Over time, I began teaching for an international rehabilitation education company and saw firsthand how differently physical therapists and veterinarians learn, think, and apply information.
Both groups are capable of extraordinary outcomes — but their training, clinical instincts, and problem-solving approaches are different.
Later, working as a physical therapist at a leading veterinary teaching hospital deepened this understanding. I learned how veterinarians interpret and apply evidence, where their strengths lie, and which rehabilitation-specific skills are simply not part of their formal training — not as a criticism, but as a reflection of how different professions are educated.
At the same time, I saw how challenging it can be for physical therapists to treat patients who cannot provide verbal feedback, and how isolating that responsibility can feel.
What became clear to me was this: the greatest challenge in animal rehabilitation was not a lack of knowledge — it was a misalignment in how the two professions are trained to think, learn, and apply care.
So I built a system that supports both physical therapists and veterinarians.
It is a shared process of learning, doing, and educating that respects how each profession thinks and works.
This approach helps physical therapists feel confident treating non-verbal patients, and it helps veterinarians develop hands-on rehabilitation skills and clinical reasoning strategies traditionally rooted in physical therapy practice.
The result is better collaboration, mutual respect, and clearer care — for professionals, for clients, and for pets.
That process is now available to you:
in your clinic, and at home, with clarity — in real time.
- Sasha
PROFESSIONAL PROFILES & AFFILIATIONS
A Companion to the LEARN-DO-EDUCATE Pathway
Between the Lines
Are you practicing and ready to take a deeper look at culture?
Animal rehabilitation is more than clinical tools and protocols.
It is shaped by how we communicate, collaborate, and carry responsibility across professions.
Between the Lines is a reflective space exploring the lived realities of interdisciplinary care—where physical therapists and veterinarians meet, misunderstandings are resolved, and trust is built over time.
These reflections explore our culture - the world of the Pet Professional Path.
enter the Pet Pro Path where it best supports your work right now.
Supporting Physical therapists and Veterinarians
the full clinical care process
From evaluation and treatment planning to video-based home programs.
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Learn
Evidence-based clinical insight.
Build and refresh your understanding using current evidence and real-world clinical experience — without overwhelm.
What you’ll find
Diagnosis-specific videos
GoGoCharlie Clinical Insights
Animal Physical Therapy podcast
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Do
Treatment plans and clinical reasoning
Translate knowledge into confident treatment planning to support — not replace — clinical judgment.
What you’ll find
Region-specific evaluation videos
Diagnosis-specific treatment videos
Dignosis-specific treatment plans
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Educate
Client-ready home programs
Provide clear, consistent home programs that help clients understand what to do — and why it matters.
What you’ll find
Video-based home programs
Handouts and exercise trackers
Ongoing content updates
Who This Is For
This platform was built to support professionals who carry the responsibility of clinical decision-making — and want to do that work with clarity, confidence, and collaboration.
This platform is designed exclusively for licensed Physical Therapists (PTs) and Veterinarians (DVMs) providing or integrating animal rehabilitation care.
It’s for professionals who:
Perform evaluation and clinical decision-making
Use or are developing manual therapy and hands-on skills
Are exploring certification, newly certified, or integrating rehab alongside another clinical role
Are expanding diagnoses in their caseload and want structured support
Are veterinary specialists in training (Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Neurology)
Value a professional, collaborative learning environment without judgment
Who This Is Not For
To maintain clinical safety and scope:
Not for veterinary technicians or assistants
Not for PT assistants PTAs or aides
Not for unlicensed or non-PT/DVM professionals
Not for pet owners or general audiences
License verification is required at sign-up.
Built for clinicians responsible for evaluation, treatment decisions, and patient outcomes.