My thesis abstract Recently, veterinarian professionals and pet owners seek therapeutic alternatives for the management of chronic pain in animals. This is a difficult problem to deal with available analgesics with the need of long-term treatments which may be responsible for numerous side effects. Within this context, the veterinary physical rehabilitation is a very valuable tool in chronic pain management. The key of its current growth is the greater efficacy versus conventional pharmacological treatments (allowing a reduction in the doses) as well as its capacity achieving a better quality of life for our patients. These treatments success lies in establishing protocols from a multidisciplinary approach, with techniques and drugs that act through different mechanisms and at several different levels, so that their beneficial effects are potentiated and the side effects of pharmacological treatments are avoided or reduced. Physical rehabilitation includes techniques such as hydrotherapy, which allows greater stability of the patient and a weightless effect, providing an ideal environment for the rehabilitation and management of pain; electrotherapy, which generates a physiological response that will be used for therapy, being very interesting in the management of pain; or electroacupuncture, which has been shown through several studies in animals to be highly effective, as an adjuvant or even as an alternative therapy in the management of numerous ailments that are presented joined with chronic pain. Thanks a lot for your corrections. I left you here a pic of the cutest sleeping labrador ever seen.