1st Pet Anywhere
1st Pet Anywhere brings veterinary care beyond the walls of our hospitals. Whether you need guidance from home, help deciding what to do next, or support for your pet without the stress of travel, our team is here to help.
Telehealth Available!
When scheduling, choose Mesa and select Telehealth for *Appointment type.
Veterinary care doesn’t always begin in an exam room.
1st Pet Anywhere is a growing collection of services designed to bring guidance, support, and care beyond the walls of our hospitals. Check back as new services become available.
Telehealth: A Vet Visit From Home
Connect with a 1st Pet veterinarian through a live video visit and get trusted guidance wherever you are.
Veterinary care doesn’t always begin in an exam room.
1st Pet Anywhere is a growing collection of services designed to bring guidance, support, and care beyond the walls of our hospitals. Check back as new services become available.
Telehealth: A Vet Visit From Home
Connect with a 1st Pet veterinarian through a live video visit and get trusted guidance wherever you are.
Pet Surgical Services
We care about your pets as much as you do, so we’ve built a team of talented veterinary surgeons that are passionate about helping pets feel better. Our surgical specialists are certified by the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, and are supported by a passionate staff of highly trained surgical technicians. We opt for laparoscopic procedures wherever possible, so your pet can heal quickly and get back to doing what they love.
Our team performs a multitude of laparoscopic surgeries, including:
- Stomach surgery
- Bladder surgery
- Liver biopsy
- Kidney biopsy
- Spaying
- Bone and ligament repair
We are confident that through either our traditional surgical services or our laparoscopic and arthroscopic surgeries, we’ll provide for your pet’s surgical needs in the safest, most comfortable way possible.
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Specialty Care & Referral FAQs
Rehabilitation Therapy
Similar to Physical Therapy for humans, Rehabilitation Therapy is an individualized treatment plan to help your pet have improved mobility, healing, and function when sick, injured, recovering, or aging. Sometimes these services are also referred to as Canine Rehabilitation, Veterinary Rehabilitation, Canine Physical Therapy, or Physical Therapy for Pets.
Rehabilitation treatments are highly individualized to the specific needs of each pet and based on your availability. The rehabilitation therapist will perform a thorough exam before treatment begins to make sure that the treatment plan is tailored to provide your pet the best possible chance for recovery.
Rehabilitation Therapy is a great option for effective pet pain management. Most pets experiencing pain or difficulty moving as the result of sickness, injury, illness, or aging can benefit from some type of Rehabilitation Therapy. No matter the cause of the problem, our goal is to help your pet return to whatever it is s/he loves doing – walking, running, playing fetch, or snuggling up to human friends – as soon as possible. Prior to beginning treatment, your pet will be examined to determine if s/he is a good candidate for therapy.
The following are some common conditions treated by Rehabilitation Therapy:
- Post-Surgery: Rehabilitation Therapy can reduce the amount of pain and recovery time following your cat or dog’s surgery. Your pet’s treatment plan will help cuts and bruises heal more quickly, reduce pain and inflammation, improve muscle retention and rebuilding for immobilized limbs, and prevent further injury for animals that might try to return to full activity too soon.
- Chronic or Degenerative Conditions: Rehabilitation Therapy can help pets with degenerative and chronic conditions enjoy life with fewer limitations. Our therapeutic treatments can reduce the amount of pain, tension, inflammation, and muscle spasms that your pet experiences. Treatment can also improve your pet’s strength, balance, flexibility and range of motion, allowing you and your pet to share more good moments together.
- Broken Bones: Broken bones can cause significant pain and restrict your pet’s ability to run, jump, and enjoy life. When these injuries are not promptly treated, it can lead to significantly increased recovery time or permanent damage. Rehabilitation Therapy can help maximize your pet’s recovery speed and reduce the pain that your pet experiences, helping them return to full activity sooner.
- Muscle Injuries: When muscles or tendons are damaged, they begin to break down quickly and make it difficult for your pet to regain their full mobility. 1st Pet Rehabilitation Therapy can slow down or reverse muscle loss, restore range of motion, and decrease the pain and inflammation that your pet experiences, helping your pet recover faster.
- Neurological Disorders: Brain and nervous system disorders can result in pain, muscle weakness, and immobility for your pet. Rehabilitation Therapy can slow the progression of these diseases and help your pet maintain the most function possible. If your pet is suffering as the result of a neurological disorder, proper treatment can result in reduced pain, improved strength and balance, and increased mobility.
- Chronic Pain: Whether your pet’s pain is the result of a surgical procedure, illness, injury or aging, Rehabilitation Therapy can help reduce the pain through a combination of treatments tailored to their unique needs.
- Obesity: Overweight pets can have difficulty moving around, making exercise nearly impossible. Our Rehabilitation Therapy services can provide an individualized weight loss plan and dietary counseling as well as therapeutic treatments like hydrotherapy to build up strength, endurance, and mobility, so your pet can become more active and achieve a healthy weight over time.
- Aging: Many pets experience painful or weakened muscles, stiff joints, and a general loss of energy as they enter the later years of life. These changes can affect even the most common activities like getting back up after lying down. Rehabilitation Therapy can help minimize the effects of aging by increasing strength and flexibility and decreasing pain and inflammation, helping your pet enjoy an improved quality of life during their advanced years.
Veterinary Internal Medicine
Veterinary internists are specialists in feline and canine internal medicine. Their specialized training focuses on the body’s internal body systems and on non-invasive treatment and diagnosis.
Internal medicine involves the treatment of internal body systems. Our internal medicine team frequently provides chronic disease management (IBD, Cushing’s disease, Addison’s disease, renal disease, liver disease, heart disease, Lymphoma, immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA), immune-mediated thrombocytopenia (ITP), valley fever, and immune mediated diseases).
- Medical Records: If this is your first appointment and your pet receives regular veterinary care somewhere besides 1st Pet, please ask your referring veterinarian’s office to send over medical records related to your pet’s condition (exams, lab work, x-rays, etc.). If we have treated your pet before but additional lab work or diagnostics have been done outside of 1st Pet, please have those records sent over as well.
- Fasting: In most cases, your pet should be fasting prior to internal medicine appointments. If you are unsure or your pet is diabetic, please call us for further instruction.
- Medications: Bringing all the medications that your pet takes helps ensure that everyone is on the same page about the medication name, strength, and formulation.
Pet Surgery
Veterinary internists are specialists in feline and canine internal medicine. Their specialized training focuses on the body’s internal body systems and on non-invasive treatment and diagnosis.
Referral
You and your pet may be directed to one of our referral services for a number of reasons. For example, you may have requested or your doctor may have been interested in a second opinion about a diagnosis that is difficult to isolate or a pet treatment plan that has multiple options.
Also, your regular veterinarian may be too busy to accommodate your pet’s treatment needs in the timeframe that would be best for your pet’s health, requiring assistance from outside services. Finally, your regular veterinarian may feel that your pet’s condition would be treated more effectively by a veterinary specialist who has more practice treating certain conditions or performing certain procedures.
If your regular veterinarian is at 1st Pet, we already have your records in our system. If your regular veterinarian is outside of 1st Pet please ask the office team to fax or email the records. Alternatively, if these electronic options are not available, you can bring paper copies of your pets records with you.
We will work as part of your pet’s medical team, in cooperation with your primary veterinarian, for as long as your pet is with us. When we discharge your pet (and frequently while your pet is with us), either to you or to your primary veterinarian for further care, we will provide all medical records and discuss your pet’s condition with your primary care veterinarian.
Once your pet’s medical records are received from your primary veterinarian, referral specialist appointments at 1st Pet Veterinary Centers are typically scheduled within 48 hours. Referrals received between Thursday and Saturday are usually scheduled for the following week.
If complications arise after discharge, pets treated by our specialty teams can be seen through 1st Pet’s urgent or emergency services. Our emergency doctors have access to specialty records and can consult with specialists as needed to help guide care.