The Veterinarians and staff of the VCA Animal Healing Center are here to restore and maintain your pet's health through a combination of the highest-quality holistic medicine, conventional medicine and surgery. We will always treat your pet as if they were our own with compassion and dignity. We are committed to respecting every person and animal who comes through our door, and providing kind and individualized care, along with open and honest communication.
We are excited to offer you a new procedure called stem cell therapy for arthritis and ligament injuries!
This concept fits right in with holistic medicine as it involves using your pet's own fat cells to heal cartilage, tendons, and arthritic joints. Stem cells are a cell that can become any cell type depending on where they are placed in the body. Surprisingly, fat has the greatest number of "precursor" cells than any other tissue in the body.
Here's how it works...