Rehab Modalities – How Can You Justify Using Them with Little Evidence?

2-hour webinar from the Chronic Pain Symposium 2026, presented by Heli Hyytiäinen, Prof. Anna Berg, and Anna Boström.
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  • 2-hour Presentation
  • Downloadable Lecture Notes
  • Multiple-choice Quiz
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presentation overview

The main focus of this session is to discuss the present clinical applications and evidence base in relation to using therapeutic modalities and methods in veterinary physiotherapy of canine osteoarthritis patients in the form of an academic discussion.

meet the presenters

heli hyytiäinen

Heli graduated as physiotherapist in January 2000, specialized in animal physiotherapy 2003, graduated as Master of Science in Veterinary Physiotherapy 2012, and finalized her PhD in 2015. She has over twenty years of clinical experience in veterinary physiotherapy. In 2006 she started working at the University of Helsinki Veterinary Teaching Hospital, where she started and further developed the hospital’s physiotherapy department. For over ten years she was a honorary lecturer for the Liverpool University Post Graduate Diploma / MSc in Veterinary Physiotherapy program as well as taught at the Finnish Animal Physiotherapy program.

Currently she devotes her time to teaching and research at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Helsinki. Heli is a proud owner of a geriatric Siberian husky, and currently suffers of a severe case of puppy fever.
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PT, MSc (VetPhysio), PhD, Title of Docent

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BSc (phys ther), VMd, PhD, DECVSMR

prof. anna bergh

Anna Bergh works as a professor and holds a subject chair with focus on veterinary rehabilitation at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. She is authorized by the Swedish Board of Agriculture to work as a physical therapist on animals. Her PhD had the title “Defocused CO2 laser irradiation in the rehabilitation of horses, an experimental and clinical study”. She is on the board of International Association of Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy and chairs the re-certification committee at ECVSMR. She performs research on validation of assessment methods and efficacy of different treatments used in rehabilitation, such as assessment and treatment of pain and physical dysfunction in cats, dogs and horses.

Her main professional focus is to combine her expertise in physiotherapy and veterinary medicine, with the goal to expand the knowledge base in veterinary rehabilitation.

Anna Boström

Anna is a physiotherapist working in veterinary physiotherapy. She is based at the Helsinki University Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, where she is involved both in clinical work and in research. Anna holds a PgDip/MSc Veterinary Physiotherapy from the Royal Veterinary College in London and she has completed her PhD at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki in 2018 on the topic “Evaluation of epaxial muscle structure in dogs with spinal disease.” Anna conducts her research at the FaunaFysio research group at the Department of Equine and Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki.

 She is the principal investigator for the Finnish Agility Study that investigates training and competition routines, injuries and jumping biomechanics in agility dogs and for a project investigating clinical significance of the lumbosacral transitional vertebra in herding type dogs. She is the supervisor of PhD and undergraduate students. Her special research interests are back muscle structure and function in dogs with spinal disease, the increasing physical demands in agility and the welfare of working and sporting dogs.

On clinics Anna leads a team of five physiotherapists, providing physiotherapy services both in the small animal and equine hospital, treating orthopedic, neurological, internal medicine and critical care patients.
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BSc (PT), MSc (Vet Physio), PhD

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