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Animal acupuncture
A unique skill to offer - Traditional Chinese Medicine
Animal Acupuncture - what to expect
Along with herbal medicine, it’s probably one of the oldest forms of veterinary medicine in the world. Although pets have only recently been treated with acupuncture, in China, horses, cows, and pigs have been treated for well over 3000 years. Like acupuncture in people, animal Acupuncture has come a long way since the early 1970s.
One of the most common concerns that people have about acupuncture on their pets is the ‘ouch’ factor. Cats and dogs can be slightly apprehensive at first but quickly relax, becoming calm and even falling asleep. Most animals return the next time, quite content to stand, lie down, or be held by their owner and treated.
Treatments we can assist with for conditions that respond to acupuncture:
- Muscle and Joint Problems
- Nervous System and Spinal Problems
- Skin Disorders
- Digestive Tract Disorders
- Heart Disorders
- Behavioural problems
- Cancer / immune disorders
- Reproduction
- Respiratory Disorders
- Urinary Tract Problems
- Eyes and Ears
How it works:
TCM is short for Traditional Chinese Medicine. This dates back thousands of years into ancient China period taking form 5000 years ago. It helps with illness and disease helping cure the body and mind and many other factors such as environmental, physical, emotional etc. Acupuncture was used for humans initially to treat but soon started to branch out into other living species that they wanted to help and improve the lives of in their culture. That being horses, cows and pigs. Throughout the years TCM and acupuncture have grown together alongside Western medicine mainly driven from America in animal medicine. As a result, it is widely used in companion animals for medicinal use and is more commonly known globally.
Acupuncture is integrative medicine stimulating the body’s internal healing mechanisms, sometimes it takes a while for it to wake up and start working! The points used are parts of meridians attached to the body and are pathways to organs, blood, tissue, bone etc. Points in the body help stimulate and serve to regulate the flow of Qi and remove blockages from the body.
Similar to human acupuncture animal acupuncturists will observe the pet's smell, the noises they make, tongue colour, pulse, nose, eyes, ears, walk, and specific acupuncture points; their whole body to be exact. A TCM diagnosis helps but more often than not an intuitive approach, sensing the points and checking pulse changes determines the treatment.
Like disease in human TCM, in animals, there are external and internal causes, including emotional causes. It's no surprise to find out that dogs get “hot spots” in summer and Bi syndrome in winter, they suffer deficiency (often when on poor diets) and cats suffer yin deficiency very frequently.
The challenge with animals is interpreting their signs and behaviour to make a TCM diagnosis when you can’t ask them how they feel. Good palpation and observational skills as well as communicating with the owner help a great deal.
Sometimes routine blood tests will pick up and confirm liver changes or kidney changes that just make sense!
Cold Laser Acupuncture Therapy
Photonic stimulation of acupuncture points and areas to initiate therapeutic effects similar to those of needles acupuncture and related therapies along with the benefits of photo-biomodulation
Benefits
-non-invasive
-painless
-no adverse effects or complications
-quick treatment
-minimal restraint
Electro - Acupuncture Therapy
This advanced TCVM acupuncture treatment uses the same technique and with a small controlled current. The advantages of this treatment is selective for patients and can be useful in conjunction with TCVM acupuncture.
Treatments indicative - Pain management, Arthritis, soft tissue, colic/abdominal pain, post-operative pain. Neurological disorders such as IVDD, peripheral nerve paralysis, facial and radial nerve paralysis and also internal medical conditions such as gastrointestinal conditions, anorexia, vomiting and diarrhea, and constipation. Respiratory diseases, renal failure, muscle atrophy. These medical conditions will likely be chronic and diagnosed to require treatments.
Acupressure
Acupressure is a therapeutic massage technique that targets specific points to enhance energy flow and alleviate pain. It is commonly integrated with our other therapeutic approaches for optimal results.
Acupressure, being a tool-free therapy, serves as an excellent complementary treatment during a dog's hydrotherapy session. Further details on hydrotherapy can be found here.
