Something to offer
between an NSAID
and a referral.
A technician-delivered, client-pay service line for the osteoarthritis and soft-tissue cases already on your schedule — including the patients who cannot take an NSAID and the owners who decline surgery.
Canine Treatment
The cases walking out of your practice.
Four conversations every small animal practice recognises. In each of them the diagnosis is already yours — what is missing is something to offer between medication and surgery.
The Declined Surgery
You diagnose a cranial cruciate rupture. The owner hears the estimate, asks for time, and leaves with an NSAID and a recheck that never gets booked.
The NSAID-Ineligible Patient
Elevated renal or hepatic values take your first-line analgesic off the table, and the quality-of-life conversation arrives earlier than it should.
“Not Another Drug”
The owner is not refusing care — they are refusing a category of care, and there is nothing else to put in front of them.
The Senior With Months Left
Mobility is the reason most owners think about euthanasia. A drug-free option keeps that conversation open longer.
Where practices use it.
Joint & axial
- Osteoarthritis — coxofemoral, elbow, stifle, tarsal
- Lumbosacral disease and chronic axial pain
- Chronic pain in patients where NSAIDs are contraindicated
- Geriatric mobility cases
Soft tissue & post-operative
- Supraspinatus and biceps tendinopathy
- Achilles and common calcanean tendon injury
- Post-operative adjunct following TPLO
- Chronic non-healing wounds
It runs on the staff you already employ.
Under your supervision and consistent with your state practice act, treatment is delivered by a credentialed technician. It adds a billable service without adding doctor hours.
Client-Pay By Default
More than 95% of U.S. pets are uninsured. No pre-authorisation, no claim lag, no reimbursement risk carried by the practice.
You Set The Fee
Treatment is billed as a defined course of care at a fee you set. Most indications run a short, repeatable protocol.
Minimal Chair Time
Sessions are short enough to sit alongside existing appointments rather than requiring new scheduling slots.
OrthoWave makes no representation about revenue. Any figures discussed are illustrative arithmetic based on a fee your practice sets independently, and actual results depend on caseload, pricing, market and execution.
Read the full guide before you call.
Eight pages on indications, workflow, service-line economics and the client-acquisition program.
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