The Acupuncture has been obtaining success in the treatment of a variety of neurological disturbances in animals.
The veterinarian should try to identify the clinical signs of some possible lesion in the nervous system before the beginning of the acupuncture.
The location of the lesion is essential for the correct handling of any animal with neurological disease. The lesion in the nervous system can be located starting from neurological signs and for the neurological exam. Through the evaluation of mental activity, function of the cranial nerves, marches, reflex and position reactions and for the sensorial tests it is possible to conclude the signs are attributed to diseases of the brain, of the spinal cord or of the outlying nervous system.
The disturbances of the nervous system can cause pain or loss of the function. The main clinical application of the acupuncture is in the painful conditions, but you are obtained good results in the treatment of loss of the function, depending on the extension of the lesion.
The signs of neurological dysfunction are associated a defect of the electric transmission of the nervous pulses. Several paresis degrees to the paralysis of the muscular function occur of that defect.
One of the objectives of the acupuncture is to restore the normal transmission of the pulses.
The disturbances neurological treaties are: disease of the disk intervertebral, epilepsy, cerebral vascular accident, trauma in the spinal cord, syndrome of the equine tail…
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