White Oak Clinical Canine Massage, based in North Dorset, is owned by Amy Piper, a Clinical Canine Massage Practitioner who is fully insured and a Member of the Canine Massage Guild. 
White Oak Clinical Canine Massage specialises in the rehabilitation and/or maintenance of canine soft tissues such as muscles, tendons, and fascia, to support or improve your dog’s mobility, behaviour, performance, pain levels, general wellbeing, and quality of life. All treatments are conducted in a confidential, professional, and empathic manner, with your dog’s needs and comfort as my top priorities.
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Through dynamic, strong, yet caring and safe manipulative massage, passive soft tissue stretching, and the application of the science-led and clinically trialled Lenton Method®, White Oak Clinical Canine Massage can support dogs suffering from a variety of presenting issues including soft tissue, muscle, orthopaedic, neurological, self-mutilation, and behavioural, as well as maintaining muscular wellbeing in non-presenting dogs.   

Surprisingly, soft tissue injuries can often be a silent culprit for many musculoskeletal issues including musculoskeletal pain, compromised joint health, intermittent lameness, stiffness, and reduced mobility. Soft tissue injury can also exacerbate underlying orthopaedic conditions, and cause debilitating musculoskeletal pain. 

The Canine Massage Guild’s founder, Natalie Lenton, has created a pain symptom assessment chart that you can download and use at home to assess whether your dog is in pain, using ‘5 Principles of Pain’ (please see ‘5 Principles of Pain’ Assessment Chart).

Clinical Canine Massage offered by White Oak works to resolve and/or reduce the ‘5 Principles of Pain’ by rehabilitating and maintaining muscles and soft tissues back to optimal health, elasticity, and tone, therefore supporting musculoskeletal joint function and durability. In other areas, Clinical Canine Massage promotes blood and lymph circulation, relaxation, and can provide a supporting role in chronic orthopaedic pain management plans by utilising the pain gate theory, addressing areas of overcompensation, and rehabilitating soft tissue that are associated with the affected joints.  

Testimonials

Bella now is much less stiff when she rises in the morning. Both her gait and posture have improved. Bella appears to stand taller and has freer limb movement when out walking. We will be back!
Trish and Bella, 5-year-old British Bulldog
After 3 clinical massage therapy sessions, Jack now has more flexibility. When out walking with his dog friends, Jack is now more happily engaged in socialisation and play and can keep up with his larger dog playmates.
Michelle and Jack, 5-year-old Beagle
Amy is amazing. She has a real understanding of dogs and puts them at ease. Inca now has more energy and joy when out walking. Her right hind is positioned better in posture and gait, with an improved stride length in trot and canter. 
Raye and Inca, 2-year-old working Black Labrador

TECHNIQUES

I use a blend of traditional massage techniques, myofascial releases, and the Lenton Method® to:
  • Restore and/or Maintain Muscle Health, Tone, Flexibility, and Use
  • Resolve Muscle Issues, Injury, and Associated Pain 
  • Rehabilitate Restrictive Scar Tissue
  • Reduce Stiffness
  • Resolve or Reduce Lameness/Limping
  • Reduce Inflammation and Oedema
  • Resolve Myofascial Pain 
  • ​​Promote Joint Mobility and Health
  • Aid or Enhance Sport and Working Performance
  • Improve Your Dog’s Engagement with Owner’s, On Walks, or With Other Dogs
  • Provide Support of Neurological Conditions  
  • Provide Natural Chronic Pain Management and Support of Orthopaedic Conditions
  • Reduce Anxiety or Behavioural Issues
  • Improve Quality of Life
I also provide recommended homecare plans, individually tailored to meet the needs of your dog, with an emphasis on care, rehabilitation, and maintenance of the musculoskeletal system.
  
I aim to see results and improved comfort levels in your dog in 1 - 3 sessions.

Code of Practice

As part of my ethical code of practice, I adhere to the Veterinary Act and the Exemptions Order 2015. This means that I work with prior veterinary approval. Approval is requested from your vet before I begin treatment with your dog. This ensures best practice in welfare and training safety standards for your dog. I am also able to provide detailed veterinary reports based on my assessment findings of your dog’s presenting muscular, gait, posture, and passive joint range of movement.

As I am a member of the Canine Massage Guild, if you have an insurance policy, you may be covered for Clinical Canine Massage Therapy as part of your policy agreement.  

The Canine Massage Guild, in collaboration with Winchester University and the University Centre Sparsholt, have conducted clinical trials on the effectiveness of Clinical Canine Massage using the Lenton Method® with fantastic results that are published in the British Veterinary Association’s ‘Vet Record’. For more information, please click here.

Please contact Amy at White Oak Clinical Canine Massage on 07951 679180 or email [email protected] to discuss your dog, how I can help, or to book an appointment.