Articles with alternative treatments

Iliopsoas Injury Recovery Medications: What We Used to Facilitate Cookie’s Iliopsoas Injury Healing

Injured iliopsoas can be a bear to treat. During the orthopedic specialist’s exam, it turned out there was more pain going on than Cookie was letting on. We already had the experience with this injury from the past. With Jasmine, it took a very long time for her iliopsoas to heal. Besides strict rest, it was important to manage pain…

by Jana Rade

Fecal Transplants for Dogs: Micro-biome Restorative Therapy (MBRT)

Have you heard about the micro-biome Restorative Therapy (MBRT)? Does your dog eat poop? Do they know what they’re doing? In a healthy dog, healthful bacteria coat the entire surface of the gut, protecting it from invaders and toxins. Illness and antibiotic therapy can seriously damage the balance of gut microflora. With the beneficial bacteria and other protective factors missing,…

by Jana Rade

Our Favorite Veterinary Treatments: Treatments Jasmine Benefited From The Most

We miss Jasmine painfully. She has become not only an integral part of our lives but part of ourselves. Objectively, considering the hand she’s been dealt, it is nothing short of a miracle that she’s been with us as long as she has, with the quality of life she got to enjoy. We always pulled out all the stops and…

by Jana Rade

Veterinary Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: HBOT Goes To The Dogs

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has been used in human medicine to treat conditions such as non-healing wounds, traumatic injuries, and serious infections. Now, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is going to the dogs. Hyperbaric capsules help to treat animals bitten by rattlesnakes, hit by cars and those with infected wounds or wounds that won’t heal. How it works? This treatment increases the oxygenation…

by Jana Rade

Veterinary Cryosurgery: Can My Dog Benefit?

Surgery doesn’t always have to involve a scalpel. Cryosurgery is one of such techniques. During traditional surgery, the surgeon cuts out abnormal or diseased tissue. Cryosurgery achieves this by the use of extreme cold. The extreme cold causes the death of the target cells while at the same time of numbs surrounding nerves, which reduces pain. Further information: Cryosurgery in…

by Jana Rade

Jana Rade

I am a graphic designer by day, dog health advocate, dog writer, member of the Dog Writers Association of America, and an award-winning author in my spare time. Jasmine, the Rottweiler of my life, was the largest female from her litter. We thought we were getting a healthy dog. Getting a puppy from a backyard breeder was our first mistake. Endless veterinary visits without a diagnosis or useful treatment later, I realized that I had to take Jasmine's health care into my own hands. I learned the hard way that simply seeing a vet is not always enough. There is more to finding a good vet than finding the closest clinic down the street. And, sadly, there is more to advocating for your dog's health than visiting a veterinarian. It should be enough, but it often is not. With Jasmine, it took five years to finally get a diagnosis for her initial issue. Unfortunately, other problems had snowballed for that in the meantime. Jasmine's health challenges became a crash course in understanding dog health issues and how to go about getting a proper diagnosis and treatment. I had to learn, and I had to learn fast. Helping others through my challenges and experience has become my mission and Jasmine's legacy. I now try to help people recognize and understand signs of illness in their dogs, how to work with their veterinarian, and when to seek a second opinion. My goal is to use 20 years of hard-earned experience to save others from the steep curve of having to learn things the hard way, as I did.

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