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- Subject: chiropractic care for dogs?
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- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 24 Jan 93 12:38:51 EDT
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- Organization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University
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- I have a social acquaintence (wouldn't say, "close friend") who is a licensed
- chiropractor. I was talking with someone else about OFA cert & hip dysplasia
- in dogs, & she (the chiropractor) asserted that it is possible to treat hip
- displasia in dogs with chiropractic adjustments.
-
- I assume that she did NOT mean to say that radiographic evidence of hip
- dysplasia could be corrected; I am assuming that she meant that disabling pain
- from hip dysplasia could be treated with chiropractic adjustments. She went on
- to say that the main reason it isn't used more frequently is that chiropractors
- usually aren't trained to deal with dogs' anatomy, and vets aren't usually
- trained in chiropractic adjustment techniques.
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- I know I've (occasionally) seen ads in dog magazines about chiropractic for
- dogs (of course, now I can't find any of those). Does anyone know anything
- about this? Yes, I KNOW chiropractic is controversial in humans, as being
- either "really helpful" or "quack medical practice" -- depending on who you
- talk to about it. I'm not really interested in rehashing THAT debate re. dogs;
- I'm just wondering if anyone has ever had direct experience with chiropractic
- adjustment of their dogs, and if so, what that experience was.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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