Dr Toms Story V1
Prime Pet Rehab / Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
A dog comes in so anxious you can’t put a hand on him.
Dr. Tom Walsh has two ways to try to bring that dog down. One of them takes about twenty minutes, and he’ll tell you himself he isn’t sure it did anything.
The other one takes two to five. Same device. Two feet of difference.
First, who he is
He spent his first career in telecommunications.
Dr. Tom Walsh / Prime Pet Rehab, Myrtle Beach
Tom Walsh is a second-career veterinarian. He was in business with a major telecommunications company, retired from there early, decided he wanted to be a vet, and went to vet school at 40.
He practiced for several years. Then COVID came, and he wanted to get closer to the animals — more of a connection. Rehabilitation and physical therapy had always been the thing he was passionate about and never had time to do.
So he built a company around it. Prime Pet Rehab, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Within two and a half years he went from a mobile business driving vet office to vet office to having his own location.
In 2022 they were seeing eight to ten dogs a week.
30 a dayDogs seen now
Rehab onlyNo general practice services
Booked a month outPlus a waiting list
How he found us
He wasn’t shopping. His last device stopped taking a charge.
Tom got involved with PEMF along the way, learning what it was from other devices. One of them was rechargeable, and it started having trouble holding a charge. He contacted the company he’d bought it from.
They were in a corporate restructuring. That device was no longer being manufactured. There was nothing to replace it with.
So he went out looking for another one, and that’s where he found Resona Health.
Why this one
What got his attention was that you could change the setting.
A couple of years on from the device he’d been using, here was one that was actually programmable — you can select different protocols on it. Tom had always thought that beat a one-size-fits-all situation, which is what he says most PEMF devices on the market are: overall general inflammation, maybe some anti-inflammatory, maybe a little pain modulation. A broad spectrum, aimed at everything.
“And for these animals, I wanted to be able to dial it in.”
Dr. Tom Walsh
Post-surgical, he wanted wound healing. Arthritic, he wanted an arthritis setting. Anxious, he wanted something aimed at the anxiety — which would help him work with that dog in the office, and could help the owner at home too.
When he and Resona Health’s founder got talking, Tom describes it as an explosion of good ideas. He started using the device immediately, and says the benefits were even greater than what he’d had with the other PEMF devices.
Two of his cases, in his own account
What that looks like on an actual dog.
Patient / Labrador retriever
Gelato
Gelato at Prime Pet Rehab / June 2023
Presenting
Degenerative myelopathy in the hind limbs — a disease that will eventually take away the movement in them.
Prognosis
Tom’s account of what neurologists will tell you: twelve to eighteen months is a long life cycle once a dog is diagnosed with it.
Course
Prime Pet Rehab worked on Gelato for three and a half years. They recently lost him to a cancer tumor.
Of the rehab work over those years, Tom says the PEMF was a dramatic part of it.
At home
Gelato’s mom bought a VIBE and used it at home to supplement — to help him on the difficult days, when the nerve connections just weren’t firing. She saw an uptick in energy. She saw the coordination trying to come back a little.
Tom does not say the device is the reason Gelato had those years. He says it was a dramatic part of the work they did. We’re not going to draw a line he didn’t draw.
Patient / Current, young dog
Rex
Rex at Prime Pet Rehab
Presenting
Hip replacement surgery, with significant loss of muscle mass in that hind limb.
The problem
Dogs are a prey species, so they learn to adapt fast. Tom’s rule of thumb: get a dog to roughly 65 to 75% of normal function in a limb and that’s good enough for them. They’ll use it like a cane and get along just fine — and stop improving.
Rex had the surgery. He was rested at home. All the things you’re supposed to do, the whole deal.
At intake
Still placing only about 25% of the weight he should have been on that leg.
Three weeks
Seen twice a week. Tom saw him the day before this interview and put him somewhere in the neighborhood of 75%.
What’s left
Habit. Dogs get into one the same way we do — if this is how we’re going to walk, that’s how we walk, and they stop thinking about it. So now he has to be retrained to walk properly again.
And because he’s strong enough now, hydrotherapy is finally on the table. Before, it wasn’t.
Both percentages are Dr. Walsh’s own visual estimates of weight-bearing, not instrument readings. His words: “I would estimate.”
Chronic neurological cases. Arthritic cases, which are very common. Post-surgical. Tom says those are a handful of the things he sees every single day.
“I’ve made it to where every single patient gets PMF every single time they come here. It’s that important.”
Dr. Tom Walsh
Something he believes, and says so
He thinks it does something the research hasn’t caught up to.
Tom is careful about how he puts this. He frames it as a belief, in an area he says we don’t really understand about PEMF yet, research-wise: that it works in tremendous synergy when you combine it with other modalities.
Therapeutic laser. Ice therapy and cryotherapy. Electrical stimulation. When he stacks them, he says he sees much better results.
He talks to colleagues about this all the time. Their stories are remarkable, he says. But they aren’t getting the same rapid pace of turnaround that he is.
Now, back to the dog nobody can touch
There are two places he can put it. They are not the same.
The first is over the back. Tom has done it plenty — holding a VIBE an inch or two above an anxious dog’s back and waiting. Maybe twenty minutes before that dog starts to come down.
And Tom is the first person to point out what’s wrong with that result. It could just as easily be a bored dog relaxing after thirty minutes of nothing happening. He can’t tell the two apart, and he says so.
Held over the back
~20 min
Or the dog was simply bored. Tom’s own caveat, not ours.
Harnessed over the heart
2–5 min
Lies down. Licks his lips. Yawns. Curls up in a ball.
The second placement is over the heart, and it only exists because Resona Health’s founder built a harness to hold the VIBE there. Gravity takes the device off the chest otherwise — there was no other way to do it.
What sits under that spot is the vagal nerve center, which Tom describes as the second-largest nerve center in the body behind the brain stem. Optimum application at the optimum site, is how he puts it.
“It is so dramatic, the difference.”
Dr. Tom Walsh
And he never has to stop working.
Because the VIBE is strapped on rather than held, it stays on through movement. Tom doesn’t have to pause therapy to run PEMF. The vest goes on, and the dog wears it for the whole thirty minutes while everything else is happening — which Tom calls a key advantage that no other product has.
It also means the animal walks out of a thirty-minute appointment having gotten the maximum amount of therapy possible out of it. Which is what makes the owner feel like the money was well spent.
The part he can’t argue with
The owners are the scoreboard.
Two years running, Prime Pet Rehab has taken a Best of South Carolina regional win for veterinarians — going up against full-service veterinary practices while offering none of those services. Rehab only.
“So I’m competing against the big boys and winning major awards.”
Dr. Tom Walsh
In the past six months the schedule has gone from three-quarters full to booked out a month ahead, with a waiting list behind that. The word of mouth keeps expanding, because owners see the difference and start asking about it.
And several of them have gone and bought VIBEs of their own — for their animals at home, and for themselves.
The device, and where you put it
Same VIBE he puts on every patient. Three ways to carry it.
The VIBE is a programmable PEMF device about the size of a deck of cards — 120 × 59 × 12 mm, 75 grams. It runs 60 core plus 70 expansion protocols, so you select the one you actually need instead of running a single broad setting at everything. PEMF works by resonance rather than intensity. It isn’t a machine that makes muscles contract, and it isn’t meant to be felt.
What changes between these three is only where the device sits on your dog. Dr. Walsh’s whole account is about that placement, so start with the one that matches it.
Dog VIBE Vest Bundle
$328.99
The vest holds the VIBE on the chest, directly over the heart and vagus nerve cluster — the placement Tom spends most of the interview talking about, and the one that stays put while the dog moves.
- Resona VIBE device, 60 core + 70 expansion protocols
- Dog VIBE Vest — sizes S, M, L, XL, adjustable straps
- USB-C cord, lanyard, AC adapter, magnetic field tester, quick-start guide
- When between sizes, size up
Free shipping · 30-day money-back guarantee · 1-year warranty
At the neck
VIBE Dog Bandana Bundle
$328.99
Same device, same price. The VIBE goes in a zip pocket on a bandana and sits at the neck, near the heart and vagus nerve cluster. The pick for a dog who won’t tolerate a vest.
- Resona VIBE device, 60 core + 70 expansion protocols
- Custom dog bandana — sizes S, M, L, XL
- USB-C cord, lanyard, magnetic field tester, quick-start guide
- Not sized for extra-small dogs — see below
Free shipping · 30-day money-back guarantee · 1-year warranty
VIBE
$299.00 $399.00
The device on its own, with nothing to hold it. For cats, for extra-small dogs who lie down next to it in their bed, for a second unit — or for you. Several of Tom’s clients bought one for the dog and then bought one for themselves.
- Resona VIBE device, 60 core + 70 expansion protocols
- No app, no Bluetooth, no subscription
- Works on people and animals both
Free shipping · 30-day money-back guarantee · 1-year warranty
Best used three to four times a week. Sessions average about 40 minutes.
Protocols are informed by 600+ published PEMF studies, verifiable on PubMed.
Important: The VIBE is an FDA general wellness device. Statements on this page have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease in people or in animals.
The account above is Dr. Tom Walsh’s personal and professional experience, described in his own words in a recorded interview. Individual experiences vary and results are not guaranteed. Percentages and timeframes attributed to him are his own clinical estimates.
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