AquaPaws Hydrotherapy

04/12/2025

Elbow dysplasia is a developmental abnormality at the dogs elbow joint meaning it doesn’t form correctly 🐶

This can lead to symptoms such as:
🐕 Forelimb lameness.
🐕 Stiffness at the elbow.
🐕 Reluctance to move and enjoy activities such as running or playing.
🐕 Swelling at the elbow joint.
🐕 Reduced joint range of motion.
🐕 Painful signs when touching the elbow joint.

If you want to know how hydrotherapy can help your dog with elbow dysplasia slide through this post🙌🏻🩵

01/12/2025

Your dog will always leave Aqaupaws feeling refreshed after our water treadmill sessions and looking forward to the next splash!💦

29/11/2025

Case Study time 🔥❤️
This little lad attended with severe carpal hyperextension (very flexible wrists) and hindend weakness, collapsing through the hock and instability in the stifles.
He also had a poor compensation posture with a lot of curvature in the spine.
As he was 5 months old at the start, we decided to give hydrotherapy and conditioning a try before considering splinting the carpus. This was after reading lots of research for pros and cons of splinting, especially a puppy.
Due to the discomfort in his hips, stifles, and lumbar spine, our primary focus was to increase the comfort in these ares and focus on strengthening it up to try and relieve the additional weight bearing through the front. His owner has been working hard with his home rehab plan.
And well, it's only been 4 weeks, and we're seeing some lovely changes in his posture. Much stronger through the hind end, lovely straight spine, and even some lift through the carpi.
Im looking forward to seeing his progress over the next 6 weeks.
What do you guys think?!

27/11/2025

The cranial cruciate ligament is key for stifle aka knee joint stability in our four legged friends!🐕

Injury to this region is the most common cause of canine lameness and high risk movements for injury here include:
- Ball throwing.
- ⁠Sprinting.
- ⁠Jumping.
- ⁠Running on slippery surfaces (laminate or tile flooring).
- ⁠Stair use.
- ⁠Playing with other dogs (pivoting and sudden changes in direction).

Hydrotherapy is key to ensuring the cranial cruciate ligament is functioning at an optimal capacity:
🌊 The waters buoyancy reduces stress onto the joint to improve joint range of motion.
🌊 The resistance of the water provides strengthening abilities to the muscles that support the joint.

26/11/2025

🐶 When we discuss optimising your dogs function and providing the best quality of life we are mainly referring to these three key elements:

💧 Improved joint mobility.
💧Increasing muscle strength.
💧Enhanced cardiovascular fitness and systems.

These three areas working together enable your dog to have the healthiest musculoskeletal system to enjoy their day to day activities. The good news… hydrotherapy offers all three of these outcomes together! 💦

20/11/2025

Vet: “NO LONGER NEEDS SURGERY.” 🧑‍⚕️

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What an amazing result for this little lady!

Lyra suffers with a condition called luxating patella. When she started, she was a grade 4 (most severe), was 4kg heavier, perhaps managed a monthly short walk and wasn’t engaging in any play.

Lyra is now almost 4kg lighter and with regular physio-hydro with our specialist vet physios, her vet has now declared her SEVERE (REQUIRES SURGERY) luxating patella to MILD, GRADE 1.

We are delighted to see her bouncing around again, no longer requiring surgery, initiating play and enjoying almost daily walks!

Well done Lyra, fab result 🫶🏼

If you like to speak to one of our specialist, free of charge and with absolutely no obligation, you can book a 15mins consultation 👇

https://calendly.com/aquapaws/free-consultation-with-a-vet-physio

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06/11/2025

Client Success 🌟

Mr Cooper had a total hip replacement a few months ago and today had his final session with us! We and his owners so pleased with his overall progress and muscle development, resulting from his hydro-physio and home exercise plan.💪

Go Cooper! 🥇

07/10/2025

79 days to go…😳
Appointments and Gift vouchers 🎁 🐾

Opening hours:
We will be closed for 2 weeks over Christmas, our last day of appointments will be Thursday 18th. We will resume appointments on Monday 5th of January.

Gift vouchers:
If you’d like to gift a friend (maybe furry!🐾) or family member an AquaPaws voucher to use for any of our services, please get in touch or speak to us at your next appointment.

21/09/2025

Saga’s Success Story!! 🥳

This week we discharged Saga after her fantastic progress!

She came to us for intermittent lameness associated with chest and shoulder pain. We adapted her walking apparatus, customised her treatment plan and reviewed Saga’s home exercises for speedy and effective progress… and it paid off! 💪

Saga spent all day at DogFest last weekend with absolutely no stiffness!!

We will miss her super bouncy nature and the millions of kisses. 😘

Best of luck with your vet review Saga!! 🤞🏼

18/09/2025

🌟 Help Your Pup Recover Faster with Laser Therapy, And/Or Physiotherapy ! 🐶✨

We offer simply LASER, but more effectively within our £50 physiotherapy sessions (with a registered and qualified vet physio) where it can form a useful tool in your dogs treatment plan.

Laser therapy is a safe, non-invasive treatment useful for…
✅ Relieving pain
✅ Reducing inflammation
✅ Speeding up healing
✅ Improving mobility
And may help reduce pain medication and potentially avoid surgery!

We use it for arthritis, post-surgery recovery, injuries, and chronic musculoskeletal conditions.

Many dogs relax during their sessions—some even fall asleep! 💤🐾 - As demonstrated by the gorgeous Ellie!

For more information on LASER and the other services we offer, you may check out our website at:

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Or, why not book a free consultation with a physio here:

https://calendly.com/aquapaws/free-consultation-with-a-vet-physio

📱 07885 373568
📧 [email protected]

17/09/2025

15/09/2025

A great day out meeting and greeting lots of doggy friends 🐕🐶🐾 Thank you Positively Canine for such a well organised event 🐶