Hydrotherapy provides non weight bearing exercise. By removing this impact, your pet can exercise and regain strength, fitness and muscle. While your pet is swimming, you will also see a greater range of movement, so joints become more mobile encouraging the production of healthy joint fluid.

Hydrotherapy particularly benefits our older dogs as arthritis causes a reduction in stride length and pain as the affected limb hits the ground. We have seen many older patients return to their puppy-like antics once swimming. Things like jumping up and pulling on the lead return and lagging behind on walks and struggling to rise become a thing of the past

The gentle, specially tailored fitness programmes improve cardiovascular fitness, especially once the jets provide further resistance. Overweight dogs benefit from this when their weight or another condition prevents them from exercising sufficiently to cause weight loss. Hydrotherapy can kick start a weight loss programme by improving all round fitness and mobility so that land-based exercise is more comfortable and possible.