- How can my animals benefit from animal chiropractic care?
- What kinds of problems respond to animal chiropractic care?
- How many adjustments will be needed?
- What is an animal chiropractic adjustment?
- How do I gain the most from a consultation?
Animal chiropractic care offers a natural, drug free adjunct to your animal's total health care. In conjuction with regular veterinary care, chiropractic can decrease pain and add quality to your animal's performance, movement and well being. Chiropractic care addresses problems stemming from the following systems:
1. The Skeletal System
Bones and joints form a flexible structure and are capable of pain free movement when in normal health and alignment
2. The Muscular System
Healthy muscles allow the joints to move freely. Healthy muscles are free of spasm, weakness, pain, knots, or degeneration.
3. The Nervous System
Nerves "direct" the functions of the body controlling the flow of communication between the brain and all areas of the body. When nerves are pinched, reduced perfomance levels and pain may result. This can eventually lead to a state of poor health.
Chiropractic care is extremely helpful for animals having problems involving joints, muscles and nerves. This is because chiropractic addresses the mechanical causes of disease where the nerves are pinched by a stuck or rotated joint or by a tight muscle. This is called a "subluxation" or "misalignment".
A full physical examination is performed to evaluate the animal's condition(s). The appropriate adjustments are then performed. In the week between the first and second adjustments the animal's owner/trainer should monitor the animal for changes. At the second adjustment tests will be performed to see if there is any measurable improvement. Following this an adjustment schedule is determined based on the type and severity of your animals condition.
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It is important to follow the prescribed course of adjustments to allow the body to make lasting changes & allow it to reach biomechanical equilibrium. By gradually increasing the time gap between adjustments as time moves along, until your animal receives visits for regular maintanence check at 5 monthly intervals, your chiropractor can help to maintain a current condition & help to prevent any susequent problems. If the condition is chronic or severe it will require more frequent visits.
A chiropractic adjustment is defined as short lever, high velocity controlled thrust by hand or instrument that is directed at specific articulations to correct vertebral subluxations.
It comprises the adjustment of vertebral joints, extremity joints, and cranial sutures.
The most important factor here is to follow the post-treatment advice given at the end of your consultation. The advice given relates to particular features of your animal’s problem and is prescribed to help you continue your animal's recovery and return to optimum fitness and health
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