How Massage Treats Pets

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Coming home after a hard day at work was not a joy. The apartment smelled of drugs and was dreary. The swirling head of my seven-year-old Vovka stuck out of the room:

- Well, you called this doctor, will he come to Nelson?

I didn’t have time to answer. Vovka understood everything from my face and, looking at me reproachfully, he trudged back into the room. The little son did not want to believe that his mother, who could always help him, might be powerless in the face of the illness that broke his best friend. I followed him into the nursery, where Nelson lay on a thick mattress. Seeing me, the dog banged its fluffy St. Bernard tail on the floor as a sign of greeting and made the usual springy jerk, intending to get up, but only whined in pain and sank down on its powerless hind legs. Nelson couldn't walk.

We injected injections, gave him pills, took him to the hospital for a long time to physiotherapy … The doctors were somehow reluctant to prescribe medications and procedures to us, as if saying: "Well, try it, although it is unlikely to help," and recently the doctor began to bluntly talk about that you can buy a two-month St. Bernardian cheap from his friends …

Greeting, I patted Nelson's shaggy side and I suddenly remembered how he first "rolled" over the threshold of our apartment with a small fluffy lump … How he first gnawed all the slippers, and then learned how to bring them … paw. How proudly he sat at the door of the store, guarding the carriage with the sleeping three-month-old Vovka. No, the doctor does not understand that Vovka and I do not need ANOTHER puppy.

To hide my tears from my son, I turned away and went to prepare another batch of injections and pills. But the phone distracted me from that. An old friend of mine, without even asking how she was doing, happily chatted into the phone about her travel plans for a vacation.

- How to hike? - I was dumbfounded. - Six months ago, you literally lost your legs! You couldn't get to work …

- Oh, thank God, those days have passed. Imagine, I went to a great masseur, did 10 sessions and I don’t remember about my sore legs for a long time.

I rudely thumped the receiver on the hook and immediately picked it up again. "Massage! Of course! If it lifts people to their feet, will it really not help the dog? Lord, where are they doing it, this dog massage, where to call, just to find out!", - I thought, dialing the familiar 09 …

Two weeks later, all three of us left the clinic of the Veterinary Service No. 1 after another massage session. Three of us - because Nelson walked with us, springing on hairy paws.

Happy Vovka jumped around him. Finding where the dog massage is done was not difficult. At 09, I was told that there is only one such place in the city - so there was no problem with the choice either. And the next day after my call, Nelson was already basking on the massage table, and the skillful fingers of the massage therapist Elizaveta Olegovna were kneading his back …

Mistress Nelson

Specialist comment:

Eight-year-old St. Bernard Nelson was admitted to our clinic with a diagnosis of paresis of the hind limbs. The completed courses of physical and drug therapy did not bring any improvements. After the 2nd massage session, Nelson began to try to get up, after the 4th session, he went. Massage is the oldest therapeutic form that has been successfully applied to humans, and it’s surprising why it has not found wider application among animals. In our clinic, massage is actively used for general recovery and treatment of many diseases. Massage techniques have a beneficial and even effect on the entire body, activating all systems: cardiovascular, muscular and nervous, digestive and endocrine.

Massage enhances the circulation of body fluids, as a result of which the supply of oxygen to the body is activated, improving metabolic processes.

Massage relieves painful conditions for various diseases, and also speeds up the healing process after surgery, fractures and other injuries.

The massage is surprisingly beneficial for the nervous system and has a positive effect on the processes of psychophysiological regulation.

Massage is an amazing diagnostic tool. Any abnormalities, such as muscle tension or swelling, can be felt much earlier than with normal care. This will help to avoid the development of many complications that in the future could require expensive treatment.

Also in our practice there are many cases when the main diagnosis was clarified by massage. The Berngian Sinninghünd (2 years old) was admitted to the clinic with a diagnosis of orchitis, endoprostatitis. The dog was admitted with complaints of back pain, attacks of heavy breathing and sleep disturbance. The diagnostics carried out in our clinic revealed discospondylosis of 3-4 lumbar vertebrae. Physiotherapy and massage were prescribed. During the first massage session, a strong muscle tension was found on the left side of the neck muscles (the pathology was not radiopaque), which prevented the outflow of blood from the head. As a result, intracranial pressure was increased, which was the cause of the above symptoms. After the 1st session, the symptoms subsided, after the 2nd session they disappeared.