How awesome that you brought this up!
In the Fall I'll be starting school for PTA (for humans
), but once I graduate I'm going to get my certificate in Canine/Equine Rehabilitation, or in other words, Animal Physical Therapy
There is a program I am going to that is hosted at the University of Tennessee, though I'm not happy about going there (GO GATORS
), I'm totally excited about what I'll be doing!!
In this program at UT you become certified and everything. Only PT's, PTA's, Vet's and Vet Tech's are able to enroll in this program... which kinda stinks, but whatever.
I think this is the only school in the U.S. that offers it, BUT I could be wrong. It seems that there was one other school that offered it, but I can't remember... I'll have to look again
Here is the link for the program/school I'm going to for it!
Canine Rehabilitation | UT Certification Courses and Seminars
You can also search to see how many Animal PT places there are in your state. In Florida there are 8 listed on that website, but there may be more... I'm not sure. Here is that link:
HTTP://www.canineequinerehab.com/united-states.asp
There is also this "promo" video if you are interested!!
YouTube - UT_Canine_Rehab_Promo.mpg
I'm so flippin' excited about this!!!
It should take me about 3 years to complete the PTA program (I've got to be enrolled at the college for 1 year before applying for the PTA program), then I'm going to go there and do the Canine Rehabilitation.
I'm going to try and pull up all the info that I've found, so if you want/need anything else I'll see if I can dig it up for you!!