Abstract
Superficial heat therapy is an adjunctive pain management tool useful in the management of canine and feline musculoskeletal disorders. Warming tissues improves mobility of musculotendinous units, and there is an additional theoretical basis for the use of heat in enhancing chronic wound healing. Therapeutic benefits of superficial heat therapy result from its effects of enhancing local tissue oxygenation and local tissue metabolism, reducing muscle spasm, increasing connective tissue extensibility and increasing the pain threshold.
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