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Custom Orthotic or Prosthetic devices for animals.
The use of custom orthotic and prosthetic devices for humans has been around for hundreds of years. OrthoPets believes that an animal should have the same healthcare possibilities that are available to humans. Not until OrthoPets, LLC, began providing the same service available to humans to our 4 legged friends have animals had the opportunity to receive this type of healthcare.
OrthoPets Major services areas.
OrthoPets provides two major services to the animal world. These
two main services are Orthotics and Prosthetics. The area of Orthotic
devices provides a way to support a limb that is somehow compromised. Prosthetic
devices allow you to replace a limb that has been lost, or was never
present from birth.
Orthotics
Orthotics simply means a device that adds support or control over an
affected limb or joint. This would apply to a joint that is affect
by arthritis, a limb that has been broken, or a post-op support healing
brace.
Historically orthotics began with the ancient art of splinting and
making braces. Brace makers eventually developed into what we now call
orthotists. Their main job was to treat fractured bones and luxations. As medical
knowledge grew and materials improved over the centuries, so did the
art of making braces. Orthotics as we know it began taking its shape
in the 18th century. The French physician Nicolas Andry published his
book "Orthopedics or the art to prevent and better the child's body's
misshape". He suggested that a body's misshape is not an in correctable
faith. Andry compared the orthotists work with that of a gardener who
ties a misshaped tree to a post. Over time growth will correct the position.
That picture became worldwide adopted as symbol for orthopedics.
The greatest improvements in
the field came in the twentieth century after both world wars and the polio
epidemics of the late 1940's and early 1950's. German Otto Bock mass produced
a wide array of prefabricated parts for the crippled soldiers returning
from the battle fields of the first world war which then could be adapted
by trained professionals to the individual needs of the wounded. Until
then orthotic and prosthetic care was only for the well-to-do.
The last three decades have seen a dramatic increase in knowledge and materials
available in the human practice. Carbon fiber, titanium and computer aided
data collection and design are today's tools that - in the hand of the right
practitioner - can improve comfort, shorten time from initial visit to final
fit and subsequently have a huge positive impact on the quality of life of a
fellow human being, the patient.
OrthoPets is proud to offer this same type of serve to animals!
Prosthetics
Prosthetics are devices that serve as a substitute for the limb that has been
amputated or missing from birth.
Early prosthetic principles that were developed exist to this day and are amazingly
efficient in function. In the three great western civilizations of Egypt, Greece,
and Rome the first true rehabilitation aids recognized as prostheses were made.
The Dark Ages produced prostheses for battle and hiding deformity. The Renaissance
emerged and revitalized scientific development begun by the ancients. Subsequent
refinements in medicine, surgery, and prosthetic science greatly improved amputation
surgery and the function of prosthesis. The industrial revolution brought about
prosthetic advancement fueled by money available to amputees following the
American Civil War; painting a colorful array of humanitarians, scientists,
and charlatans. Finally the modern era of prosthetics arose with quantum leaps
in technology developed in two world wars. This brings us to the entry of OrthoPets
into the animal healthcare system.
OrthoPets is proud to offer an entire range of Prosthetic devices for your animals needs.
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