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February 15, 2010

Exercises for dogs

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: balance, coordination, dogs, exercises, pain, pool — Cynara @ 8:00 am

Climbing stairs is useful to improve power in the rear limb extensors, range of motion, coordination and balance.

Exercising in water is effective for improving strength, muscular endurance, cardiorespiratory endurance, range of motion, agility and psychological well-being, while minimizing pain.

Swimming the dog several times daily for only 2 to 5 minutes may still result in significant gains in strength, ROM, function, and overall cardiovascular fitness.

Walking in the water, either on the bottom of the pool or on an underwater treadmill, is an excellent way to allow a dog with painful joints to exercise more comfortably.

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February 5, 2010

Acupuncture´s benefits

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: acupuncture, arthritic, benefits, joint, pain — Cynara @ 8:08 am

Acupuncture may improve mobility and ambulation and therefore strengthen muscles around arthritic joints.

Acupuncture with needles around the edge of ulcers may cause vasodilation and perhaps speed healing time.

Acupuncture may be used immediately after surgery or injury as well as in chronic, painful conditions.

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February 1, 2010

When to put ice in lesions

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: bursitis, ice, inflammation, lesions, pain, tendinitis — Cynara @ 9:54 am

The ice is used in acute lesions and it does with that happens a decrease of the metabolic activity of the harmed cells, reducing pain and inflammation.

The ice is most effectively used immediately following trauma, reduce inflammation and its sequela, control bleeding and reduce muscle spasm.

It is particularly helpful in the management of acute inflammation: bursitis, tenosynovitis, tendinitis…

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January 6, 2010

Animals with back pain

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: animals, back, disk disease, pain — Cynara @ 11:08 am

About 85% of dogs with back pain and no neurologic deficits will improve with nonsurgical therapy in cervical disk disease.

Neck pain is the most common and often the only sign of cervical disk disease.

Patients with thoracolumbar disk disease are more likely to have proprioceptive and motor deficits, requiring greater attention to balancing and strengthening activities.

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January 4, 2010

Disk disease in animals

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: animal, disk disease, dogs, herniation, pain — Cynara @ 12:53 pm

Disk disease commonly occurs near the thoracolumbar region, (T12-T13 to L1-L2) are the most commonly afflicted sites, although other areas may also be affected.

On set of signs can be sudden or gradual and depend on the force, quantity, and location of the disk material, and the duration of disk herniation.

About 10% of affected dogs have back pain with no neurologic deficits. They are often reluctant to run, jump, or climb stairs and may have kyphosis.

Neurologic deficits range from ambulation with mild ataxia of the pelvic limbs to complete paralysis.

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December 16, 2009

Pain diagnostic

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: acupuncture, diagnostic, pain, physiotherapy — Cynara @ 11:15 am

The diagnostic of the pain represents a great problem in the veterinary medicine. Unlike the human being, the animal it is not able to in the saying where hurts. It only depends and only of the ability of the veterinarian.

The animal should be presented, so that the doctor can see, through eventual lameness or defense positions, the origin of the pain and her location. Never the palpation should be omited.

More than 70% of the trigger points cross with the Acupuncture points. With the trigger points such areas are defined, the ones which if they turn sensitive in certain unhealthy states.

Analysis of the pain:

1 – to adopt certain postures to diminish or to reduce the pain,

2 – behavior changes (aggression)

3 – reactions painful

4 – opaque hair

5 – apathy, to look sad

6 – feeding refusal.

Therapy of the pain:

1 – analgesic

2 – physiotherapy

3 – acupuncture

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December 14, 2009

Treatment with laser

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: acupuncture, laser, orthopecidal, pain, problems, treatment — Cynara @ 11:21 am

The effect similar of Acupuncture of the laser consists of the action of an energy sufficiently big on several cells. Above all, nerves and cells of subcutaneous conjunctive tissues.

The laser can be used for treatments of:

1 – reduction of the pain

2 – treatment of wounds: ulcerations, burns, postoperative, otitis…

3 – orthopedical problems: distensions, trauma,wen, tendinitis, bursitis, muscular hardenings, myositis…

4 – dermatological problems: acne, herpes…

The laser is totally painless, then the good tolerance also in sensitive animals.

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December 11, 2009

Lesions in animals

Filed under: You knew that... — Tags: animals, lameness, lesions, pain — Cynara @ 12:24 pm

The muscular lesions happen through bruise, laceration, rupture, etc.

A sign that a lesion is irritating the neurvous roots until a member is the relutance in sustaining weight, pain or lameness.

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December 10, 2009

Analgesia for acupuncture

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: acupuncture, analgesia, animal, pain — Cynara @ 10:54 am

The therapy of the pain represents the field of the acupuncture. The expression analgesia of the acupuncture not always is valid because nor all the animals totally resist the analgesia for acupuncture.

In many animals, during this therapy, the threshold of the pain is just a little increased.

The beginning of the combat to the pain through the Acupuncture consists of activating instead of paralyzing. Through multiplied pulses it happens, between provocative pulses of the pain and blocking pulses of the pain induced, a new balance state in the Central Nervous System.

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December 7, 2009

Indications and contraindications of the Acupuncture

Filed under: Animal news — Tags: acupuncture, analgesia, contrindications, indications, pain — Cynara @ 11:44 am

In agreement with the nature of the Acupuncture, it owes if to have in mind that the Acupuncture can only be indicated in functional and reversible diseases.

That is already destroyed cannot be cured for the Acupuncture! This therapy form normalizes organic functions that are altered of form reflex or regulatory.

The indications are:
1 – functional alterations in the area of the apparel locomotor: acute pain, myositis, tendinitis, syndrome of the pain miofascial, painful syndrome in the forearm extremity, pain in spine, thigh, pathologies of the articulation of the knee and of the hock (arthropathia).

2 – pathologies of the internal organs that can be influenced: gastritis, enteritis/colitis, obstructions, colics, diseases genitourinary, cystitis, placenta retention, metritis, psychological gestation.

3 – other indications for the treatment for the Acupuncture: skin diseases, shock, general immunoestimulation, analgesia, postoperative rehabilitation.

The contraindications of the Acupuncture are: severe and irreversible alterations, as necrosis, fibrosis, septicemias, severe dysstrophy, severe states of resistance and loss of the immunity, degeneration in severe degree, infectious diseases, deficiency states.
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