Treating Injuries for Elderly Dogs Holistically
Treating Injuries for Elderly Dogs Holistically
Description: How we decided to treat an injury in one of our family’s elderly dogs. Injuries like torn ligaments, for an older dog, often mean longer-term recovery times.
Common everyday activities for a young dog cause problems all of a sudden. For small elderly dogs this is present more this presents more of a problem because they are more likely to jump down from beds, couches, chairs, and window sills. But big dogs have trouble too, with things like jumping in and out of vehicles, going up and down a whole flight of stairs, and, depending on where they primarily live (in or out of doors), the might have trouble getting in and out of bed. All dogs, whatever their size, can get hurt in just simple game of chase. For example, chasing balls or chasing critters out of their yard. As with people, dogs bones become more brittle and joints tend to stiffen up as they age.
We recently experienced this painful reality (painful for your dog, but also for your heart) with a close family member’s dog, Mattie. Mattie is a Yorkshire terrier and has all the “big” attitude of the large terriers. NO ONE is going to tell HER what to do!
She was lying on the easy chair, next to her person, when she heard a noise and bailed off the foot rest. In the process, she tore a ligament in one of her hips. Upon landing, she immediately favored the back leg and refused to put weight on.
After I spoke with her, using animal communication, and determined that the leg wasn’t broken or fractured, we began a holistic treatment on her, beginning with Quantum Touch and immediate mandatory bed rest and stillness. We also gave her cranberry powder pills, up to four throughout the day, for the anti-inflammatory effects it lends, and a homeopathic remedy of Arnica Montana (I recommend using Boiron brand, 30c, one to two of their little ball tablets four times daily, as it’s quite effective when treating injuries like the one Mattie had), which treats muscle trauma and bruising. To round it all off, and ensure we had a complete holistic treatment, we loaded a few frequency sets from the FreX Sound Therapy program and played those on a regular basis for her while she slept.
After a week she was doing better, but still was not as well as desired, so my Aunt began to think that maybe I had misheard her in my animal communication, so they made an appointment with their vet. However, upon doing a quite thorough exam, her vet, too, determined that she needed more of what we were already doing. They offered to prescribe some medications for her, to ease the pain, but my Aunt respectfully declined. On the way home, I suggested Mattie wear a harness and be tied to her basket, be kept off the couch and chairs, and sleep in her basket as well, so she didn’t have the opportunity to re-injure herself. It was a method we could make Mattie’s strong terrier personality allow the healing to take place. I explained that it was what I had to do for my own Molly, a toy poodle, to ensure that she’d heal from a very similar injury, and my Aunt decided that this was a good plan.
Where I can’t say I tell anyone but my Aunt such a strongly worded opinion that the leg isn’t broken or fractured it’s just muscle and soft tissue based animal communication, I can say that I’d recommend x-rays, if you find yourself in a similar situation. I don’t recommend the drugs that vets, allopaths, (which simply means, according to the dictionary, “the method of treating disease by the use of agents that produce effects different from those of the disease treated, is opposed to homeopathy”) typically recommend, as they often only suppress the pain, rather than treat the underlying root cause. If we had a vet who practiced canine acupuncture closer to my Aunt’s home, I would have definitely taken Mattie there, as they can relieve pain swiftly, without any medications necessary, in cases like this one.
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do not diagnose medical issues, offer medical advice, prescribe drugs,
or perform surgery. I am a freelance journalist writing about my
experiences with my own dogs, incorporating many different complimentary tools found for my own dogs to overcome potential health concerns I have for them. I have been keeping a journal of my findings since July of 1996;
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their families in a wide range of life situations as of the writing of
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should you decide to try some of what we’ve done in our family, will be
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