Pet Miracles - Snickers After Acupuncture Treatments!!!

Snickers is a sweet Dachshund that loves to play around and make friends. She is living proof that the ancient art of acupuncture works and her owners will be happy to attest to her miraculous healing.

In early August of 2010, while vacationing up north, Sneakers jumped off of a couch and slipped an inter-vertebral disk. This serious injury caused her to be in excruciating pain and completely paralyzed from the mid-back down to her legs. She was unable to stand, had lost all sensation in her back legs and was unable to control her bladder or defecation processes. The owners took her to an emergency clinic where they gave a grim prognosis and recommended emergency spinal surgery within 24 hours post trauma as her best chance of walking again. Unfortunately the procedure would have cost over $5,000 dollars and Snickers' parents were unable to afford it. Luckily, they remembered that I practice acupuncture and promptly drove back that day so that we could start her on her treatments.

After the first treatment I could see some sensation coming back to her left hind leg and her anal tone had improved. I had taught the owners how to express her bladder and how to do some passive exercises to keep the blood flowing to the leg muscles. After three treatments she could stand on her own for 20 seconds, wag her tail and had bladder and defecation control. Imagine my delightful smile when I saw her at her fourth acupuncture treatment (merely three weeks post trauma) and her proud parents put her on the floor to show me how she was walking unassisted! Her dramatic recovery was unusually fast. I think a lot of it has to do with her youth and great health prior to the accident. In addition, the great care given by her owners had a great impact on Snicker's healing.

Acupuncture in animals has been around for almost 4,000 years and it originated in China. The Eastern wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine can be integrated with the western knowledge to increase the success rate in treating diseases in our pets. Chinese herbal therapy helps maintain the acupuncture effects and it allows me to extend the frequency between treatments. Acupuncture is a painless, quick and fairly inexpensive procedure that may offer an alternative to euthanasia in many cases. Snickers' treatments cost around $300, her herbal medication about $25 compared with a $5,000 option. Needless to say, Snickers' parents are grateful they did not choose euthanasia and they'll continue to enjoy their little buddy for hopefully many years to come.

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[mitsievargas]

Thanks for your question! I use a permission point on top of the head and it relaxes the pets.The needles do not harm anyway.In some cases of squirmy dogs I use aquapuncture which is injecting b12 in the acu points and it is super fast procedure:)

[dandelion685]

Hi. I realize this video was posted over a year ago, but I have a question about how you keep the animal calm in order to insert the needles. ?? Thanks!!

[epicrandomness711]

awww...