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Veterinary physical rehabilitation is the use of noninvasive techniques, excluding veterinary chiropractic, for the rehabilitation of injuries in nonhuman animals. Veterinary physical rehabilitation performed by non-veterinarians should be limited to the use of stretching; massage therapy; stimulation by use of low level lasers, electrical sources, magnetic fields, and ultrasound; rehabilitative exercises; hydrotherapy; and applications of heat and cold. The idea of applying rehabilitation principles and techniques to animals is not new. Interest in the practice of canine rehabilitation in the United States gained momentum in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Nowadays the application of veterinary rehabilitation is widely spread not only in the United States but also in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and north European countries. Due to the beneficial effects of physical therapy both as conservative and as a post surgery treatment, many veterinarians and animal owners became interested in the use of veterinary physical rehabilitation. As a result, the demand for research activity in the particular field has largely grown. The purpose of this thesis is the conduction a literature review that includes published researches with common content the use of varied therapeutic modalities and their effect on the functional recovery of the canine patient.