Qigong Energy Balancing, Veterinary Spinal Manipulation, and Acupuncture can relieve pain, improve mobility and enhance over all health for many animals.
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Dr. Schilling helps dedicated animal owners keep their pets happy, healthy and comfortable by using
•Veterinary Spinal Manipulation,
•Veterinary Acupuncture, and
•Qigong Energy Balancing. Veterinary Spinal Manipulation (VSM, aka “animal chiropractic” in states other than Wisconsin), Veterinary Acupuncture an
d Qigong Energy Balancing are examples of a group of unconventional therapies that are referred to as Complementary/Alternative Veterinary Medicine or CAVM. All of the healing methods I use are forms of energy work, influencing the nervous system and the energy systems of the body, each in its own way. Combining them enhances overall effectiveness of therapy. These modalities can be used as primary therapy or as a supplement to conventional veterinary medicine. Benefits from Veterinary Acupuncture, Veterinary Spinal Manipulation and Qigong Energy Balancing can be:
•Pain relief
•Improved mobility
•Enhanced over all health
I treated some horses on Tuesday for the first time since I jammed my wrist. I used lots of acupressure and qigong to help things out before doing any actual spinal manipulation. It was much easier using qigong first instead of last. I am pleased to report my wrist survived very well with a little help from some Vet-Wrap and Ibuprofen.
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Had a weird experience this week. I had to get a new library card because my old one wouldn't scan anymore. It was only 21 or 22 years old.
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I finally made a handout on appropriate home care for owners of dogs with disc disease. I printed off two whole copies before my printer said I needed a new color ink cartridge. Looks like it's time for another Walmart run but never on a Saturday afternoon.
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DATCP has received reports of Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) in six Wisconsin counties including Clark, Columbia, Grant, Monroe, Sauk, and Vernon. Learn more about EHM in Wisconsin at https://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/Programs_Services/HorseOtherEquineMvmt.aspx.
Just in case you are wondering after yesterday's post, I am able to work on small animals. It is only the horses I have had to reschedule. Once again I have amazing clients. They have been understanding and patient.
I should be able to schedule an appointment for your dog or cat in a week or less. Contact information on my website: www.vet-energy.com
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Just want to brag about my Therapeutic laser. I tripped and fell last Tuesday and seriously jammed my wrist. I used homeopathic arnica, iced it, took ibuprofen, did acupressure and tried to keep it elevated for the 9 hours it took to get back home from southern Illinois. Then I used my laser. The relief was immediate. I've been using it everyday and the swelling went down in a matter of days. The discoloration from deep bruising is gone and I can move the wrist fairly comfortably over most the range of motion. Hurray for photobiomodulation! I went to my chiropractor today and she adjusted my elbow which has also provided relief. My elbow had been a little sore but was not as obviously injured as my wrist.
It is great to have personal experience with the tools and techniques I use but I have to say I'd rather just stay healthy and and uninjured and not have to use them.
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This month, I concentrated on the difference between biomechanics and biotensegrity because biotensegrity is not an adaptation to biomechanics. Biotensegrity is a considerable paradigm shift, and mechanical thinking alters our ability to evolve. Yes, muscles create energy, but how we touch the muscle does not change the energy. One of the main functions of the legs’ muscles is buffering. “Muscles do much more than create the forces needed to extend and flex joints, which is what has been traditionally taught in anatomy courses. Muscles are also critical for the buffering of mechanical forces on the joints. They do this by absorbing very large amounts of energy and are thus critical to preventing overloading and to stabilization of joints. This function is so important that the energy produced by normal walking would tear all the ligaments in the knee if it were not absorbed by muscular activity.” (Elizabeth W. Uhl, DVM, Ph.D DACVP and Michelle L. Osborn, Ph.D) There is no rider’s aid that triggers buffering. We can only create situations optimizing the muscles’ ability to absorb forces and stabilize the joints. The situations are balance, reducing the load on the forelegs, cadence, allowing the muscles to function at their frequency, and proper correlation between lateral bending and transversal rotation of the thoracic spine, ensuring the proper direction of the forces loading the forelegs.
In the nineteen sixties, a classical author theorized that different rider leg placements stimulate different hind legs’ engagement. I believed it for a while and lost confidence in my skill because I could not produce the theoretical effects. I learned later that the muscles I touch with my legs don’t even engage the horse’s hind legs. So, why does a renowned classical author make up such a false theory? The horse felt the rider’s legs’ placements and figured out the reactions that the rider expected. In the author’s mind, the horse is only capable of obeying, and the rider could not imagine that the horse had the creativity and the willingness to figure out what the rider expected through his meaningless stimuli.
Instead of increasing my calves’ pressure, I often turn my toe slightly toward the horse. The horse can feel touches that are too light for a human to feel. The slight rotation of my toes toward the horse’s body increases or simply changes the contact of my calves, prompting the horse’s response. I reeducated numerous times horses who reacted negatively to any increase of pressure using the technique as they were comfortable with this subtle leg action.
The classical approach does not serve the horse’s willingness and capacity for perception. The greatest of our ancestors imagined a dimension that was beyond the available knowledge, and they aimed toward the refinement of the rider’s aids. It was a step toward actual knowledge, but the complexity and refinement exposed by modern science demands a lot more than a step. The whole concept of obedience has to be hung in the horse’s museum as a curiosity of the past. The horse is a willing partner. Knowing the performance’s athletic demand is our duty, but we are only the supportive actor. The horse is the one who processes our suggestions and figures out the body coordination, allowing him to express his talent.
Jean Luc
I miss my friends at the CATsNIP clinic but giving up my role as surgeon has resulted in less pain, less stress, more energy and more time to do the FUN stuff like VSM, acupuncture and photobiomodulation. My current practice is the most enjoyable and rewarding experience I've had in veterinary medicine and I graduated in 1981! How many of you actually look forward to going to work?
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I have a bucket of Heave Ho, an herbal supplement for horses with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (heaves). It is a 90 day supply with two days used. $170 on Valley Vet Supply. Make an offer. Contact info on my website.
Complementary/Alternative Veterinary Medicine includes: Veterinary Spinal Manipulation (aka "animal chiropractic" except in Wisconsin), Veterinary Acupuncture and Qigong Energy Balancing
Time for my periodic reminder that my contact information is available on my website along photos of some cute dogs and horses.
Complementary/Alternative Veterinary Medicine includes: Veterinary Spinal Manipulation (aka "animal chiropractic" except in Wisconsin), Veterinary Acupuncture and Qigong Energy Balancing
I intermittently ponder extending my Wednesday afternoon hours a bit into early evening. Would this actually be useful to any clients or potential clients?
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Appreciating the snow even though it require a bit of rescheduling.
Hi,
For those who may not know me, I am Dr. Jan Schilling.
I have been certified by the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association since 1997. Experience counts! I studied acupuncture for animals at the Chi Institute, (now Chi University) in 2000-20001.
In 2021 I added a Class IV MLS infrared therapeutic laser to my practice. This is pure energy work with a scientific basis so it only seems like magic.
I currently offer Veterinary Spinal Manipulation, acupuncture/acupressure, some soft tissue techniques and therapeutic laser for domestic animals in southwest Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota. I am licensed in both states. My office is in beautiful C**N VALLEY, WI, right by the park.
For more information about the therapies I offer you can go to my website or call my landline: six, zero, eight, four, five, two, two, one, eight, five.
Talk to you soon,
Jan
www.vet-energy.com
I case you should be wondering what I do on my day off, last Sunday I drove up to the Eau Claire area to work on my horse and family pets and see two of my sisters. 260 miles, one horse and two dogs later I was done and back home. Only took about 8 hours. So what do you do for fun?
Dogs need love and dogs need space. It's crucially important that we can read their language.
Happy Lunar New Year. It's the year of the dragon.
With all this crazy balmy February weather it is good to realize that deer ticks are active when the average temp for a 24 hour period averages 30 degrees or when the high is about 40 degrees. So get out and enjoy a walk instead of a ski but remember your bug dope. Deer ticks can carry not only Lyme disease but anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis too. Tick checks in February is not my idea of fun.
I have many patients (and their owners!) who come to me on gabapentin for pain control. It is a VERY effective analgesic but as a central nervous system suppressant it can have some side effects. A common one is ataxia, which is in-coordination resulting in a wobbly gait. Many of my spine patients are already wobbly . Sometimes the dose of gabapentin can be adjusted to decrease the problem. Even if it can't, it makes good footing, moderate confinement and support while walking even MORE important for a good recovery.
One client described taking gabapentin as like "being on alcohol". Yikes!
Happy Groundhog's Day, But we don't need a rodent to tell us we are having a crazy early spring. To schedule your pet's spring tune up and "jantastic" spinal care call or email me. Contact info on my website:
Complementary/Alternative Veterinary Medicine includes: Veterinary Spinal Manipulation (aka "animal chiropractic" except in Wisconsin), Veterinary Acupuncture and Qigong Energy Balancing
A woman I know has taken to calling me "Jantastic". I like it. I'm thinking of trying to use it in a tag line. How can I make something like "Jantastic spinal care since 1997" not look like a typo? Put Jantastic in quotes maybe? Suggestions appreciated.
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The holidays are over, I'm not sick anymore, it isn't snowing and tomorrow it is supposed to get all the way up to 9 degrees above zero. If your creaky critter could use some TLC call 608.452.2185.
Expectations, Versus Reality
A horse can mimic our gestures or obey our aids. The result is the same: a move executed with a physique incorrectly coordinated for the effort. The outcome is nagging discomfort or pain and the development of pathology. Forces generated in the fibers of any muscle are shared throughout the entire biotensegrity locally and globally via the softest and hardest fasciae. This changes our “one muscle, one movement” ideology. We apply aids and expect a response. For instance, we put pressure on our inside leg, expecting the horse’s inside hind leg adduction. The horse could not respond to our leg’s pressure for a thousand reasons. One is the intensity of the pressure. A horse can react to pressures that are too light for the human to feel. The intensity of our leg pressure might trigger protective reflex contractions. The frequency might also trigger a protective reflex from the horse. If the frequency of our leg action is faster than the horse’s natural frequency, the horse will instinctively protect himself from our leg action.
When a farrier makes a hoof adjustment, considering the hoof deformity, the theory might be right. The problem starts with the expectation. Some horses might react as expected, but most protect other issues and react unexpectedly. Considerable forces act from the body down onto the leg and hoof. The study of the function of the navicular apparatus: “The Equine Navicular Apparatus as a Premier Enthesis Organ: Functional Implications,” by Michelle L. Osborn MA, PhD; Jean Luc Cornille, SOM, Uriel Blas-Machado DVM, PhD, DACVP; Elizabeth W. Uhl DVM, PhD, DACVP, discusses the how the anatomy of the navicular apparatus, including the presence of previously undocumented fascial connections, is explained by the need to manage the mechanical forces impacting horses’ feet during movement. The pathology reveals how these adaptations are overwhelmed in navicular syndrome by pathomechanical forces generated by problems in how the whole body is functioning. The article is open-access and can be read by anyone. Here is the link. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/vsu.13620:
While advances in imaging have led to earlier detection of the soft tissue damage characteristic of navicular syndrome, they have also led to more confusion about exactly how to define the disease. Most of this confusion would be resolved, as it has been for other diseases, if the definition of navicular syndrome was based on its primary cause, mechanical overloading of the foot, rather than on the fine details of the resulting tissue lesions (Osborn et al).
The main cause of overloading of the foot is the forces acting from the horse’s body down onto the legs and hooves. The cure is the rider’s ability to reduce the intensity and the frequency of the forces loading the lower legs and hooves through advanced education of balance control. Gravity acts from the body down onto the legs. Inertia accelerates gravity, creating forces loading the lower legs and hooves in a direction, frequency, and intensity that damage the navicular apparatus and hoof structure. We can believe that the horse mimics our gestures in perfect body coordination, but horses suffer from humans’ naivety. Instead, they benefit from human knowledge and integrity.
“The true test of any theory about how a horse should be trained is in its application, not in the logic used to justify it. The ultimate test of athletic training is whether an athlete can perform at a high level for extended periods of time without breaking down. Unfortunately, while this is increasingly the standard for training human athletes, it is not generally applied to horses. In fact, looking at images of horses working, many people in the equestrian world miss obvious indications that chronic overloading of the joints is occurring. This is a major problem, as chronic degenerative joint disease is induced by the repeated impact of forces that cannot be managed within the normal functional range of the tissues and the joints. If these forces are not corrected the tissues/joints are damaged and will fail. What is even more unforgivable is that when a horse does break down, especially at a young age, it simply is accepted as ‘bad luck’ or the inevitable consequence of a horse being asked to perform, rather than assessing the specific causes of the failure in how the horse was performing. If such assessments were routine, ways to train horses that allow them, like human athletes, to perform for extended periods of time without chronic catastrophic tissue damage would be the norm.” (Elizabeth Uhl, DVM. PhD, Dip, ACVP)
Jean Luc.
Flashback Friday: Watch the World
One of the very most useful games for dogs of all ages and skill levels.
https://paws4udogs.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/watch-the-world-changing-fear-or-reactivity/
Given the forecast I will be closed tomorrow. Can't wait to shovel some more snow.
I've been a little under the weather the last few days. (and where does that expression come from?). Hoping to be back at work on Monday. Contact information on my website.
Complementary/Alternative Veterinary Medicine includes: Veterinary Spinal Manipulation (aka "animal chiropractic" except in Wisconsin), Veterinary Acupuncture and Qigong Energy Balancing
Taking stock on the first day of the New Year, I can honestly say that the current iteration of my career in Veterinary Medicine is my dream job. My patients almost always walk out better than they came in and most of them start to like coming to see me.
Even the ones who can't walk at all at the first visit most often can be made ambulatory again. They may never be "normal" but I expect to get them back on their feet. Of course nothing is 100% successful, so there are some for which pain control, maximizing what mobility they do have and improving quality of life is the best I can do.
Wishing you all an amazing New Year.
Hi everybody. Here is my periodic reminder that my current phone number is on my website. People are still trying to reach me at the 638 number from Viroqua. That will not work. Happy New Year!
Complementary/Alternative Veterinary Medicine includes: Veterinary Spinal Manipulation (aka "animal chiropractic" except in Wisconsin), Veterinary Acupuncture and Qigong Energy Balancing
I received a very sweet holiday card from one of my clients the other day. She claimed it was at the request of her cat, Jack, who is my patient. Among other things I was informed that Jack's person was able to dissuade him from ordering live mice for me on Amazon. It was a sweet thought, but I can honestly say that this is one gift I am glad to have missed out on.
Have a Sacred Solstice.
WI
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