[Dailydrool] Chiropractors

[Violet Osborne]

Hi Momperson.........
I have taken my cocker (Patches) and shih tzu (Gidget) to my vet for a  
chiropractic treatment.  Gidget was in pain and she was walking with  
her back hunched and the vet could feel her vertebra was out of  
whack.  The treatment isn't like when I go to the Chiropractors, the  
treatment she gave to Gidget, was a handheld gadget that is spring  
loaded and is put on the vertebra..........think of it this way.....on  
a pinball machine, you have the thing that is pulled back and is let  
go and comes so far and hits the ball to move it forward.  Well this  
thing works kinda like the same way.  It touches the vertebra and puts  
it back into place.  I have had Patches done once and Gidget done  
three times.  Yes, I would go back again and again.  However, my  
Patches now has Tendon and Ligament strain in his back legs and  
chiropractic treatment won't help.  We are doing something different  
with this.   I know that this thing that the chiropractor uses, is  
also used by human chiropractors.  In fact, when my husband had  
something out of whack in his back, the chiropractor used this same  
thing, b/c Doug had a stroke and they didn't want to manipulate him.
I hope this helps, and it's a little clearer than mud ;-)

~~Vi~~mom to Roscoe, Chloe, Patches, Gidget & Buster



On Feb 26, 2009, at 9:35 PM, dailydrool-request at dailydrool.org wrote:

> From: Beverly Szaton <bgszap at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Dailydrool] Chiropractors
>
> What is it exactly that chiropractors do? They manipulate what, bone? 
> Muscle?
>
> In a dog like Mitchell with extremely severe spinal damage, would a
> chiropactor be of any use when surgery is not?
> What would it do?
>
> Surely some of you have used them. I need facts here. I can  
> speculate that
> it might or might not help, but I don't want to do that, I would  
> like very
> much to hear from people who have used them and under what  
> circumstances and
> how much it helped, or whether it did and whether you would do it  
> again.
>
> MomPerson to Nigel and Llewis (we been berry good an quite) an  
> Mitchell and
> Cooper