Fw: Acupuncture is GREAT for your pets - and I'm trained to perform it

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From: EG <drelai...@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, March 18, 2013 5:58:50 PM
Subject: Acupuncture is GREAT for your pets - and I'm trained to perform it

 Hi Everyone,

 

If anyone of the humans reading this has been acupunctured, then I'm singing to the choir.  I personally find acupuncture spectacular for me. The list sponsor for Monday gave a wonderful discussion of the benefits of acupuncture.  Well, humans are just one more mammal.  The chinese have been acupuncturing their animals for thousands of years.  If a problem is suitable for human acupuncture, then it is probably suitable for your dog, cat, horse, ect.   And, the animals love it.  It usually takes more than one treatment for the animal to understand what I'm doing (though not always), then they often fall asleep.  Clients have asked what I gave to their animal to make him sleep.  The answer - nothing.  Usually, I've relieved some pain that has been keeping them from a restful sleep.  Acupuncture takes the pain down and the animal falls asleep.

 

About 2 years after I graduated from Veterinary school, I hit the back of the medicine cabinet.  The drugs I was taught to use for various maladies were insufficient, had too many side effects, or were just too expensive.  At that time, I enrolled in Tradition Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Acupuncture - for 2 years, I became very aware of how serious my teachers were and how they would be exhaustively testing until they were assured that the student knew what they were teaching.  They even took attendance twice a day at different times, pop quizzes (and, yes, I was surprised).  I'd already earned a medical doctorate, but they wanted a copy of it.  I was licensed in 5 states, but they wanted copies of all licenses.  This course was only taught to doctors.  But, TCM was a serious subject to my teachers and they wanted to be sure they turned out graduates that had solid educations in the subject.

 

That was almost 20 years ago.  I have been performing TCM and acupuncture for all that time.  I also perform regular Western Medicine that is more familiar.  The Chinese don't mind.  Often both are used simultaneously.  Often it allows me to use fewer western medicines and risk fewer side effects. 

 

I encourage you to consider acupuncture certainly for your animal's musculoskeletal pain. They are more sensitive to NSAIDS than many people.  If you are not sure if acupuncture would help, please call me and I'll discuss it with you.  For example, an open fracture needs western medicine to set and cast the break, acupuncture would be indicated for pain.

 

Think outside the box.  That is actually harder than you'd expect, but well worth the effort.

 

 

Elaine Gregg, DVM, CVA  (the CVA stands for certified veterinary acupuncturist)

HorseFeathers Veterinary Service, PLLC

919.542.0990

HorseFeathersVeterinaryServicePLLC.com

 

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