12/12/2024
🐾BEFORE & AFTER🐾
Meet Tinks! 🐱
Tinks is a really great example of how just one chiropractic treatment can make a big difference, even in acute cases. Tinks started with a left hindlimb lameness towards the end of November. As is often the case with cats, we don’t actually know how he hurt himself – they do like to have their most dramatic accidents when no-one is watching, it seems! He was seen by a vet following his injury and was put on a course of pain relief, but his owner wanted to see whether chiropractic could help before putting 16-year old Tinks through more invasive investigations.*
The two videos below were taken a few days either side of Tinks’ first treatment. In the video on the left, you can see the extent of his lameness through the short, stuttering steps being taken with his left hindlimb and the lack of flexion in the joints of the limb. He is also carrying his tail markedly to the left hand side.
When I met Tinks for the first time, he was very sore and sensitive to touch over his lower back and hindquarters. Treatment was kept very light and gentle, partly due to the lack of formal veterinary diagnosis and partly out of consideration for what Tinks would be able to tolerate. Adjustments were limited to correcting a significant misalignment in the lumbar spine (lower back) and rebalancing the pelvis. We saw an immediate improvement post-treatment and the video on the right speaks for itself – his movement got SO much more free and fluid in the days following my visit. And the absolute icing on the cake, his owner has reported that he’s started purring once again! That sort of feedback makes my week 🥰
We’ve still got a long way to go to get Tinks moving well and feeling comfortable again, but we’re off to a great start! 🧡🤍
Many thanks to Tinks’ owner, for kindly giving me permission to share her videos.
*Chiropractic manipulation has been carried out in accordance with veterinary guidance, and I will always obtain veterinary consent before treating an animal.
