Dog care, symptoms, health issues, and dog health advocacy from an owner's perspective. In loving memory of Jasmine.
Wounds are likely to occur multiple times through the course of your dog’s life. Having basic knowledge and understanding of wounds, their care and healing process, can be of great help to you both. You can treat some wounds at home but others need medical attention. Physical therapy can also be helpful in the care of wounds and scar tissue. …
Degenerative myelopathy is a progressive disease of the spinal cord. First symptoms include loss of coordination in hind legs. When faced with a particularly difficult challenge in life, I have always felt the best weapon of combat is knowledge. Along with that is keeping a positive attitude. As a physical therapist, dealing with canine patients diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy…
Take an active role in your dogs treatment. I have an obsession with helping dog owners gain knowledge and empower them to be proactive in their dog’s health care. It must be the force behind what inevitably connected me to your blog author, Jana Rade and a host of others such as Dr. Patrick Mahaney, Carol Bryant, etc. It’s a…
The health of your dog’s nervous system is critical to their mental and physical well-being. Touch and other mechanical means of providing sensory input help maintain and improve the condition of many neural connections throughout the body. Why is it so important? A dog relies on nerves to interpret the world throughout their lifespan. But the most critical times are…
Can physical therapy help treat vaccinosis in dogs? The familiar phrase “I’m dammed if I do and dammed if I don’t” describes the feeling a dog-owner has when making a decision about vaccinations. If an adverse reaction occurs it is already too late to prevent the negative effects on the dog. Vaccinosis is not a true official diagnosis. The term…