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Willow Creek Veterinary Center
5707 Leesport Ave.
Reading, PA 19605
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Small Animal Services
Veterinary Biomedicine
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Small Animal Services
Appointments
We offer appointments for annual wellness exams for your pets.
Some older pets might require wellness exams every 6 months, keep in mind that our pets age much faster than we do and in a older dog a wellness exam once a year is equal to us visiting the doctor every 4-5 years.
A lot of people do not bring their older pets in for wellness exams as they think they are old and do not need vaccines anymore.
You can elect to not vaccinate your older pets but the exam is still very important to catch problems earlier and have a better outcome in the long run. We recommend annual or semi-annual blood and urine screening for our geriatric patients.
We offer sick pet appointments and have access to X-rays, Ultrasound, an in-house laboratory, tonopen and endoscope to help us diagnose your pet's illness.
We do offer referral to specialists if we think that your pet's needs can be better served in a referral center.
Featured Services
Acupuncture
East meets West at Willow Creek Veteranary Center. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jamie Moran recently obtained her certification in Traditional Chinese Veterinary Acupuncture. Dr. Moran is currently working towards her certification in Chinese Herbal Therapy and Chinese Food Therapy. Consultation appointments are available after which a treatment program can be established for your pet. Please contact us if you have any questions about the services that we offer.
Regenerative Cell Therapy
Dr. Jose Lucena has completed the Vet-Stem Regenerative Medicine Credentialing course. Regenerative Cell Therapy uses cells harvested from your dog's body fat to treat conditons such as osteoarthritis and orthopedic soft tissue injuries. Please contact us to learn more about this exciting new treatment option and how it may benefit your dog.
Physical Rehabilitation
We do offer Canine Physical Rehabilitation through DOGS BACK IN MOTION located on our premises. Please visit DOGS BACK IN MOTION or contact us for more information.
Surgery
Surgical services offered at our clinic include spay and neuter procedures as well as declawing of cats and dental prophylaxis. We perform orthopedic surgeries including extra capsular cruciate repair, patella luxation repair and repair of certain fractures. We also offer soft tissue surgeries such as lump removals, entropion, extropion and cherry eye repair, splenectomy, cystotomy and much more. Please contact us to find out if we perform a particular surgery.
Laboratory
Our in-house laboratory provides our doctors with the opportunity to have the majority of diagnostic testing done on site. Test results are reported to the doctors without delay, allowing them to begin the treatment process in a timely manner. With our inventory of instruments, we are able to perform Complete Blood Counts (CBC) and Chemistry Profiles. We are also able to process urine samples and perform parasite screenings. Testing for Lyme and Heartworm disease is also available in-house.
Boarding
We offer medical boarding for client owned pets that need medications given to them while their owners are away. We need to pre-arrange this so please contact us for more information about this. We appologize, but we do not have the space available to offer boarding for healthy pets, however, we can recommend boarding facilities.
Emergency Services
Outside our regularly scheduled hours we do offer emergency on-call service for our clients. Please call ahead and do not just show up, as there is not a veterinarian on the premises 24/7. Please see our hours section for more information about scheduling an appointment.
Pet Food
We offer prescription diets from Hills, Purina and Royal Canin. There are a lot of foods that we keep in stock but some are available by special order only so please contact us to see if we have your pets food in stock.
Veterinary Biomedicine
Veterinary Biomedicine through Willow Creek Veterinary Center presents cutting edge treatments such as Stem Cell Therapy and Prolotherapy.
Prolotherapy consists of concentrated platelets from the same patient blood
through differential centrifuging under rigorous sterility standards and re-injected into the patient wherever it is needed.
The healing effect comes from the number of growth factors inside of the platelets
such as PDGF, FGF, EGF etc. When we deliver the PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) in a lesion it speeds up the healing. It is especially recommended in tendonitis, muscle fiber trauma and severe skin wounds.
Stem cell therapy, which had been experimental for many years, has exploded - especially in veterinary medicine.
Stem cells are not mysterious entities which can be found only in embryos. As a matter of fact, there are stem cells everywhere in everybody.
In the 70's stem cells started being isolated from bone marrow
a complex process, and in the 80's it was found that an easily acquired source of stem cells is the adipose or fat tissue.
However, they are found in bone and bone marrow vessel walls, as well as the liver
.these cells can transform themselves into other lines and also have the potential of multiplying under the appropriate conditions.
Veterinary Biomedicine offers services, such as extracting the stem cells from fat tissue.
They are separated in what is called Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF), where endothelial cells, red blood cells, etc, can also be found. They can then be re-injected into the patient or cultured and isolated in order to obtain a major benefit.
Veterinary Biomedicine also offers isolation, expansion and cryopreservation banking of stem cells from placental tissues and umbilical cords from neonates for future use.
The main indication for this therapy is osteoarthritis, however more uses are found continuously given the capacity of stem cells to transform in other cells.
Dr. Jose Lucena
Dr. Lucena is certified in the practice of Regenerative Cell Therapy
which uses harvested cells to treat conditions such as osteoarthritis and orthopedic soft tissue injuries.
Dr. Lucena joined Willow Creek Veterinary Center in 2006.
Prior to that he practiced in Spain, England, and Scotland before moving to the States where he worked at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lucena would be happy to discuss with you how this innovative new treatment option can benefit your animal companions.
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Dogs Back in Motion is a Canine Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Referral Center located at Willow Creek Veterinary Center.
The rehabilitation team members are Dr. Jose Lucena - who received his Physical Therapy Practitioner Certificate from Tennessee University in 2010, Dr. Jamie Moran who is an acupuncturist certified by the Chi Institute, Dr. John Jones - Certified Animal Chiropractor, Toni Gelsinger, and Jaime Kniezewski, Certified Technician.
Our goal is to increase mobility
improve quality of life and control pain in dogs caused by different ailments and diseases through the combination of different techniques; e.g., physical therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic care, stem cell therapy, etc.
Each patient receives an initial evaluation which will allow us to plan an individualized rehabilitation program.
Physical therapy may include laser therapy, ultrasound therapy, electrical stimulation, cryotherapy, under water treadmill, massage, joint mobilization, manual therapy, and a wide range of exercises. As treatments do depend on individual needs and response to treatment, frequency and length of sessions vary.
Financial Policy
We do expect payment in full at the time of service
we encourage you to discuss fees prior to treatment for your pet to avoid any misunderstanding.
We accept cash, personal checks (accompanied by a drivers license), VISA, MasterCard and Discover.
We also accept CARE CREDIT.
Emergency Policy
We offer emergency service for our current clients only.
We do not have a doctor on the premises 24 hours a day so please call ahead.
We might refer you to an emergency hospital depending on your pets condition as our staffing overnight does not allow us to serve some emergency needs.
There is an emergency fee that will be charged in addition to any services that we provide.
Please be prepared to pay for services in full if your pet is treated on an outpatient basis or to leave a deposit if your pet is hospitalized.
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Hours
Monday:
9:00am - 9:00pm
Tuesday:
9:00am - 9:00pm
Wednesday:
9:00am - 9:00pm
Thursday:
9:00am - 9:00pm
Friday:
9:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday:
9:00am - 1:00pm
Sunday:
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About Us
Willow Creek Veterinary Center...the vet your pet would call... specializes in the treatment of companion animals (dogs, cats, pocket pets, pot belly and micro pigs) We are a complete animal hospital, with both modern equipment and a caring, compassionate staff.We place the care, diagnosis, and treatment of your pet as our primary concern. We offer a comprehensive, compassionate approach to medicine and surgery.