Integrative hospice
Hospice can improve quality of life for terminal patients, and reassure their owners that they’re doing a good job helping their animals through their last…
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Interested in animal behavior?
As a veterinary technician, you can help clients identify and address behavior problems, and prevent them from occurring in the first place. Veterinary technologists and…
Laser therapy for a necrotizing wound
The successful story of how laser therapy helped a dog heal from a necrotizing wound. An eight-year-old Labrador retriever was presented to Dover Veterinary Clinic…
Promoting healing with prolotherapy
Prolotherapy is a longstanding medical technique that treats pain by stimulating the body to repair damaged and loose ligaments. Prolotherapy is not a new method…
Evidence-based Chinese herbal therapy for equines
There is a long and vibrant history behind the tradition of using Chinese herbal therapy and therapy modalities in equine medicine. The use of traditional…
An educated assistant brings much to an integrative practice
From case-taking to liaising with clients to offering additional therapies, there are many things an assistant can do to make herself indispensable to a clinic.…
Supporting Regenerative Medicine
Stem cell therapy is continuing to show great promise in veterinary medicine, and it’s getting another big boost. Philanthropists John and Leslie Malone have committed…
Animals Improve Assertiveness in Autistic Kids
A University of Missouri researcher recently found that children with autism have stronger social skills when an animal lives in the house with them. “When…
Dogs and Magnetic Fields
What direction do your canine patients face in when they relieve themselves? It might seem irrelevant, but according to a study published in Frontiers in…
3D Prosthetics Set to Improve Lives
The advent of 3D printing has opened up a whole new world of possibilities, and some of them are already improving lives. Born with deformed…
Benefits of acupressure and other alternative modalities
How offering acupressure and other alternative modalities can benefit your clinic as well as your patients. A growing number of clients are requesting alternative therapies…
Chronic infections and biofilms
Indiscriminate antibiotic use has caused a dramatic rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. To determine which antibiotic is most appropriate, many veterinarians will send samples for culture…