Cold Laser Therapy improves blood flow in muscles, ligaments, and joints while increasing circulation, helping flush toxins, speed recovery, and minimizing muscle soreness. Cold laser treatments can improve performance while reducing recovery times.

How a therapy laser works
Most pet owners are familiar with surgical lasers used to cut or cauterize tissue, but are less aware of lasers used for healing. These lasers used to be differentiated as “cold lasers” or “low level lasers,” but this terminology is now outdated. Therapy lasers work differently than surgical lasers through the photobiomodulation process. All lasers use light wavelengths to perform a specific task, but therapy lasers focus on stimulating the body’s natural healing response. A therapy laser used for its photobiomodulation properties either stimulates or inhibits biochemical pathways to aid in patient healing or pain relief.
Laser therapy is used to:

• Increase circulation
• Reduce swelling
• Reduce central nervous system damage following a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury
• Reduce muscle spasms
• Enhance tissue healing
• Reduce stiffness
• Slow the effects of degenerative conditions
• Reduce pain
• Stimulate nerve healing
• Reduce inflammation

As we use our therapy laser more frequently, we find new ways to take advantage of its healing benefits. Almost every condition can be helped with increased blood and nutrient flow to an affected area.

How a therapy laser can help your pet
Therapy lasers provide all pets with numerous benefits. Our therapy laser helps us administer drug-free, surgery-free, and pain-free healing treatment. In our hospital, we use our laser frequently for the following conditions:

• Osteoarthritis
• Ear infections
• Anal gland impactions
• Tooth extractions
• Stomatitis
• Ear hematomas
• Intervertebral disc disease
• Surgical incisions
• Wound healing
• Chronic sores, such as lick granulomas
• Hip dysplasia
• Cranial cruciate ligament injuries
• Bladder inflammation
• Inflammatory bowel disease

You may be wondering what a therapy laser cannot heal. We avoid using laser therapy only in pregnant animals and patients with tumors.

We offer a variety of breeding services such as, In house progesterone testing, semen collection and analysis as well as both vaginal and surgical artificial insemination in small animals.

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Dusty Moon Veterinary Services offers a variety of surgical services for our pet patients these services include:

• Spay
• Neuter
• Dentistry
• Mass removals

The benefits our recommended surgical cutting lasers vs traditional surgical techniques

Surgical lasers have many useful applications. We use them to make the initial incision in elective procedures, such as spays and neuters, as well as inside the abdomen to seal off vessels and remove tissues during more complicated procedures. Surgical lasers minimize bleeding, so the surgeon has a clearer view of the surgery area. Easy visualization is important for your pet, because the surgical procedure is safer, and the surgical time is reduced, which means your pet’s time under anesthesia is also reduced.

Surgical lasers provide several advantages over the cold steel of scalpels:

• Reduced bleeding — As the laser beam vaporizes tissues, local blood vessels are cauterized and sealed.
• Reduced incidence of surgical infections — Surgical lasers not only limit the number of surgical instruments introduced during surgery, but also kill bacteria present at the surgical site.
• Reduced post-operative pain — In addition to sealing blood vessels to limit bleeding, surgical lasers seal nerve endings, leading to reduced pain.
• Reduced swelling — Lymph vessels are sealed as the laser “cuts” through tissue, limiting the edema (i.e., swelling) associated with surgical procedures.

Other advantages of surgical lasers include:

• Enabling the removal of small masses under local anesthesia, sometimes in the exam room while you wait.
• Accessing hard-to-reach locations, like the ear canal, soft palate, or nasal cavity
• Facilitating uncomplicated correction of entropion Allowing easy ablation of ectopic eyelashes, acral lick granulomas, and eosinic plaques (rodent ulcers)
• Surgical lasers provide cutting-edge technology for surgical procedures, and the result is a faster, easier post-operative recovery time for your beloved pet.

If you’d like to learn more about laser therapy, either surgical or therapeutic, give us a call. We’d be happy to talk with you about how lasers can benefit your pet.