Canine Hip Dysplasia -An Integrative Approach

This is Nora, a Sussex Spaniel! She has hip dysplasia and does not have good hips at all. Herr owners contacted me back in April 2021 to see if I could help - despite medication she was still uncomfy and restless at night. Her appetite was poor and she suffered from anxiety.

When I first met Nora I thought that she was a quiet little soul, quite introverted. But no! It turns out that with acupuncture and laser therapy on board, as well as some manual therapies, and she’s full of beans and completely hilarious! She frolicks around the consult room and then bounds back pushing her bottom into me for rubs and cuddles and some more soft tissue work. I have to play a game to laser her as she sits on the mat and then when I come close she frolicks off to the other side of the room with a gleam of mischievousness in her eye. I do ask her to sit still for her needles though .

We’ve made a really good difference to Nora this year, working (as always) in collaboration with her fabulous GP vet we have also changed her medications up a little as well as adding in the tools from my toolbox - she has acupuncture, laser therapy, soft tissue mobilisations and is now on Librela and cartrophen. Her appetite is better, she’s walking further and is more comfy in day to day life.