Since 1998 Jeanine has worked as a pediatric physical therapist in settings including a children’s teaching hospital, outpatient clinics, schools, and the home health setting. In 2002, Jeanine also began working in animal rehabilitation in veterinary rehabilitation clinics and the home health setting.
Jeanine Freeberg, PT, DPT, C/NDT
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Our Approach
Learn About Rosie's Place and My Non-Profit Vision
When people ask you what you would do if you won the lottery, do you know what you would say? I do.
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I’d open “Rosie’s Place”, a non profit animal rehabilitation center. Rosie was the first animal with a disability that I adopted. She was a beautiful red miniature dachshund. When she came to me she was paralyzed in her back legs. If I tried to tell you everything that was special about Rosie, all the reasons I loved her, all the ways she saved me, and changed my life for the better, this would be a novel.
"Jeanine Freeberg is the best physical therapist. Her experience as a pediatric physical therapist informs her ability to communicate with her non verbal animal patients.
She has a tenacious spirit that refuses to give up on a patient, and through her persistence and dedication, she manages a treatment program aimed at total rehabilitation and recovery.
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My dog Harold became Jeanine’s patient a month after back surgery to repair a ruptured disc. He suffered intervertebral disc disease and lost the use of his rear legs when he was four years old. Jeanine began working with him by fitting him for orthotics, which helped him stand during his early therapy. Later as he progressed, she fitted him for his wheelchair that gave him mobility. He was a terror toddling around in his wheelchair, clearly happy to be alive.
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His progress was slow and probably painful at times, but Harold viewed his therapy sessions with Jeanine as playtime. He loved her."
— Harold's Pet Owner