Treating Animals With Acupuncture | National Geographic

Turned in there, yeah. People may not immediately put acupuncture with veterinary medicine. However, acupuncture from a veterinary standpoint has probably been almost practiced as long as that for humans. This forces came out of a field where it's been raining, and there's mud out there, manure out to its ankles. It's going to go back out there after we treat it, so we're probably not going to use it.

Sometimes, the addition of acupuncture helps. We need to do a better job, and sometimes it's the only thing that gets us over the hump. Get that any therapy. As far as things that we treat most often, they are the things that respond on those.

So, musculoskeletal problems that come with pain, nerve damage, and that's because that's a lot of the things that acupuncture is good for. We're looking better on the straightaway. Thank you!

Acupuncture simulates the body to heal itself, pretty much it in a nutshell. Those veterinarians that are skeptical are doing it in a sincere way. They want to do what's best for their patients, and they don't want to recommend anything willy-nilly.

Keep drinking, yeah. As far as the placebo effect in animals, that's not possible. What is possible is a placebo effect on the owners because the owners feel that just because they're paying for it and having something done, it must surely be having a positive effect.

So, one of the responsibilities of centenarian acupuncture is to filter that part out and actually look at our patients, see what's better, and then ask good places to camp ill. Some it makes you more comfortable.

We do know that when needles are placed, those needles are stimulating the neurovascular bundle. You're getting a release of endorphins and Kathleen's histamine release and a lot of things that we know from a physiologic standpoint are involved with decreasing pain and decreasing inflammation.

I'm having some trouble in the day, whether you can explain it from a Western medicine standpoint or Eastern medicine standpoint. If you're getting results, then that tells you the evidence that you need to know.

Yes, you think a brain tumor and you immediately think death, and I was like, well, what do we do? I mean, how do we treat this? Knee goes, well, there's only really one method of treatment because Sophie is so young, and that's chemotherapy.