Passionate about animals, Canine Wellness Center (CWC) provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to companion animals in the greater Phoenix area. By utilizing positive reinforcement techniques and numerous pain-free treatment services, our goal is to improve the animals’ and owners’ quality of life. Our services (all-inclusive with our therapy program) include underwater treadmill/hydrotherapy, class IV cold laser therapy, Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF), therapeutic ultrasound, manual therapy, therapeutic exercise, electrical stimulation (NMES and TENS), and pain management. Our patients include canines recovering from orthopedic, musculoskeletal, and neurologic diseases to canine athletes, seniors, and service dogs.
No primary veterinary care is provided at CWC.
Any issues outside the rehab’s scope will be referred back to their primary care provider.
Rehabilitation for canines adapts human physical therapy techniques to increase function and mobility of joints and muscles in animals. Animal rehabilitation can reduce pain and enhance recovery from injury, surgery, degenerative diseases, age-related diseases, and obesity.
CWC is primarily a referral-based practice for the purpose of rehabilitation and sports medicine services only. We will work with primary care veterinarians to provide the best comprehensive solutions available. Our office is located near the Kierland Commons area in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Michelle Erney, VMD, CCRT
Director of Rehabilitation
Dr. Michelle Erney received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 after completing her Master’s in Laboratory Animal Science in 2008. She completed her rotating internship in Tucson, Arizona, after graduation. She worked for many years as an Emergency Veterinarian and has found passion and a calling for canine rehabilitation and wanting to help more dogs live longer lives with less pain and improved mobility. She is a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist (CCRT) after successfully completing the Canine Rehabilitation Institute (CRI) program. She enjoys running and is actively involved in CrossFit in her free time.
Julia Rogers, PT, DPT, CCRT
Canine Rehabilitation Therapist
Dr. Julia Rogers is a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist (CCRT) after successfully completing the Canine Rehabilitation Institute (CRI) program and is able to use the skills learned in physical therapy school to apply these to canine patients. She received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Franklin Pierce University in Goodyear, AZ, in 2019. Ever since she was a child, she has had a passion and desire to help dogs and after discovering canine rehabilitation, she decided to make the change from treating humans to treating dogs. She enjoys spending time with her dog, hiking, weightlifting, painting, and spending time with friends and family.
Kristin Craig, CVT, CCRVN
Canine Rehabilitation Therapist
Kristin is a certified veterinary technician (CVT) and has been working as a technician for 15 years. She started in general practice and progressed her career as a technician in specialty surgery and rehabilitation. She is a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Veterinary Nurse (CCRVN) from the Canine Rehabilitation Institute. Her background in the veterinary surgical specialty has given her an understanding of many surgical procedures and how they affect a pet’s mobility. Her passion for the field of rehabilitation came from having experienced her own geriatric boxer’s decline due to arthritis. She has pursued the path that would allow her to help other geriatric pets with pain control as well as have the mobility to live their best life in their golden years. She has enjoyed making a difference in their care and ability to return to normal function. When not working, Kristin enjoys hiking with her beagles, playing the flute, and pursuing a veterinary pain practitioner certification.
Ashley Ronnebaum
Canine Rehabilitation Therapist
Ashley has been working as a veterinary technician since 2008. Ashley realized the extensive benefits of physical therapy while watching many of her post-operative patients go through their healing process. She has seen first-hand the positive impact physical therapy can have on improving and maintaining degenerative diseases through her 10-year-old pit bull, who has lived his whole life with neurologic deficits that impact his mobility. Ashley looks forward to helping all her patients be more comfortable by providing the highest standard of rehabilitation and strengthening. In her personal time, Ashley loves camping, backpacking, and kayaking with her Border Collie, riding her horse, and practicing archery
Our Mission
Improving the quality of life for canines and their owners with pain reduction and management through our rehabilitation and wellness services. Seeing your pet as one of our own, we create individualized, tailored treatment plans to get your pet back to being an active member of your family or back into service.
We practice around our core values: trust, accountability, empathy for pets and people, and providing the highest standard of care and excellence.
