Chronic cranial cruciate ligament disease can lead to CCL tears or leave the knee joint vulnerable to injury.
Did you know there are alternative conservative medical therapies available to heal and restore function?
He is one more happy girl, “Muffet”
Surgery is often recommended and advised. However, when the orthopedic exam shows enough stability to the joint, options are available.
Muffet is a senior girl who has heart and kidney disease- surgery was not an option for her. 🥰🎊
…🎉Way to go Buckley!🏆
He has benefited from integrative therapies, which means: diet therapy, herbal medicine, laser therapy, acupuncture + electro acupuncture and physical rehabilitation. This is not a quick process. It is a gradual healing and strengthening over 4 to 6 months.
As with any breed, French bulldogs are predisposed to getting certain diseases. For example, many German shepherds are more likely to have hip problems. Cocker spaniels are more likely to get ear infections. Dachshunds are known for developing back problems such as intervertebral disc disease (IVDD).
French bulldogs have grown immensely in popularity over the last few years and are also quickly becoming known for developing intervertebral disc disease. In fact, some weeks I see more French bulldogs than I do dachshunds.
Since IVDD is so common in French bulldogs, it can come on suddenly and can cause permanent inability to use their limbsW
Meet our super talented Mike a trophy blue winner time and time again 🏆
Happy Birthday Mike 🎂🎉🎁🎊
We are so thankful and blessed that you made it to your eighth birthday. Keep up the blue ribbons and enjoying agility with your ability.
Mike has suffered from chronic gastrointestinal disease to now being fully restored.
There’s nothing better than an honest testimony from one of our clients.
Physical rehabilitation, custom diet therapy, herbal medicine and acupuncture principles to heal bilateral partial CCL tears.
Rehab is essential to success preoperatively and postoperatively. Way to go Ms. Layla. She is recovering from thoracic disc surgery.
Physical rehabilitation is essential in both the pre and postoperative patient.
Meet Miss Layla, she is recovering from back surgery and doing well.
She has been treated with combined therapies: acupuncture to decrease pain and swelling around the spinal cord and move blood to the recovering tissues, herbal medicine and a regular physical therapy program. Post surgery, she was not given a good prognosis. However, with synergistic integrative therapies she’s come a long way 🥰👏😘⭐️
Blu’s progress update
Part 3 -Blu’ progress:
Eight weeks post systemic and local spine stem cell treatment. He has been treated the past 8 weeks with combined integrative therapies of physical rehabilitation, acupuncture, food therapy and herbal medicines.
Our Synergy TEAM sure works hard on these neurology cases.
He is coming along very well. This was a very challenging case! Blu suffered a combined spinal cord and brain trauma injury at the end of December 2023.
He was left as a quadriplegic.
He is recovering at this time with a lot of TLC, and regular integrative therapies.
Yes- his help em up harness needs to be adjusted! He is building muscle mass and has lost a sum total of 10 pounds with his custom balanced food therapy
plan. 🎊🙌🏻
Way to go Skully!
Meet Skully- He was nearly
Non ambulatory. CT scan showed multi focal cervical to T-L spinal DJD/IVDD.
Ozone-therapy+ (EAP) electoacupunctue has been used in humans and dogs as a coadjutant treatment in intervertebral disc disease. Ozone (O3) is helpful due to its analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Here we used ozone saturated saline injections for Skully to oxygenate the spinal tissues. This treatment is used as an adjunctive treatment with intervertebral disc protrusions (Hansen Type II/Chronic).
Part 2 Blu’s clinical progress.
Blu is making wonderful progress. He has gone from being a quadriplegic to now using all four limbs.
Stem Cells were given both systemically and locally to treat the spinal cord contusion. Way to go Blu!
Meet Aja-she’s being managed very well with conservative medical therapies and has a good quality of life. 
After a neurologic exam to localize the pain and consultation with a neurologist in collaboration for her treatment plan, she has regained a quality of life.
We are very thankful!
She went from severe pain, unable to stand and use her left front leg and after weekly treatments for three weeks she is responding nicely and back to playing with her toys again.
Part 1 -Blu’s clinical progress:
We have the challenge of working with many spinal disease patients.
Meet Blu -who suffered a high impact spinal cord trauma. Blu was a quadriplegic and is making some major accomplishments.
We are using multiple therapies (physical rehabilitation, massage, hydrotherapy, acupuncture, electro acupuncture, laser, diet and herbal medicine) to help him regain life again. Will keep you posted on his progress in the weeks to come.
Finally, the data is in and submitted for publication early 2024.
A special thank you to all the pet parents who entrusted their pets into this study.
A Novel Periarticular Injection Technique of a Clinically Pure Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment for Dogs with Osteoarthritis Joint Pain
Joyce Ann Gerardi, DVM, MS-TCVM, Deng-Shan Shiau, PhD, Roger Clemmons, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, Huisheng Xie, DVM, MS, PhD
ABSTRACT
Osteoarthritis (OA) in dogs is a degenerative disease of joint tissues that result in loss of articular cartilage and has the hallmark of pain and lameness. The objective of this study was to compare the treatment effect of an aqua-acupuncture (Aqua-AP) delivery into periarticular acupoints with intra-articular (IA) injection of a regenerative biologic for treating canine OA patients.
Sixteen canine patients diagnosed with OA in appendicular skeletal joints and whose owners elected non-surgical and minimally invasive treatments using less pharmaceuticals were enrolled and randomly assigned into two PurePRP® treatment groups: Test group (n=8) with the proposed periarticular Aqua-AP delivery; Control group (n=8) with the standard IA joint injection. Each subject received an injection at week 0 and again at week 4.
Treatment outcomes assessed included goniometry (flexion and extension), thermal imaging, and Client Brief Pain Inventory (CBPI) data. The flexion assessment show no significant changes over time in either group (p=0.962), and group difference was not significant (p=0.494). For extension, there was significant increase over time (p=0.020) but no significant group difference (p=0.217). Both groups had significant temperature reduction after the treatment (p<0.001), with the reduction observed earlier in the Test group at week 4 than the Control group at week 8.
On the CBPI, significant score reductions (improvement) were observed in both groups (p<0.001) for the pain severity or the interference scores, with no significant group difference co
Well, this is one of our special little top “bananas”. Maddie was going to be euthanized as she suffered many years of chronic irritable bowel syndrome.
She’s doing super now. We are very thankful!
