Dr Lane practices out of Vancouver Animal Wellness Hospital on alternating Thursdays, please call the clinic for more information.

Canine and Feline Lameness Consultations

Initial consultations include a comprehensive lameness exam, in which your pet’s musculoskeletal system is assessed from both an orthopaedic and a chiropractic perspective. Treatment plans typically draw on a number of modalities including exercise modification, massage, physiotherapy, and nutritional considerations.

How does Chiropractic Medicine work?

If you are interested in learning more about the physiology behind chiropractic medicine (why it works), you are welcome to read the article Dr. Lane wrote for the Pacific and Prairie Horse Journal. (http://www.whistlervet.com/upload/Documents/pacificPrairieHorseJournal.pdf) Although it was written specifically about horses, much of it applies to dogs or cats as well.

Canine and Feline Chiropractic Medicine

Canine chiropractic medicine can be used both as a preventative, or to treat an existing problem.

As a preventative, it can:

Reduce the risk of sports injury
Delay the onset of degenerative changes like arthritis
Improve athletic performance and co-ordination
Improve flexibility and muscle strength
Reduce cortisol (a stress hormone) levels in the blood
Improve the strength of the immune system

As a treatment, it can:

Relieve existing pain
Improve posture and limb use
Improve exercise ability
Reduce the need for prescription drugs (both for back pain, and for other conditions such as urinary incontinence, recurrent ear infections, digestive system or respiratory issues)

Common signs that your dog may benefit from chiropractic care include:

Altered head or tail carriage
Altered tail wagging
Irritability
Angled walking
Sitting differently
Reluctance to jump up, or into the car
Altered back line
Flinching or cowering
A pre-existing lameness or arthritis
Undiagnosed or mild shifting lameness
Non-specific decreased fitness
Increased stumbling or scuffing of the nails
Trouble going up or down stairs
Muscle imbalances, twitchiness or atrophy
Altered chewing habits secondary to prior abscesses, malocclusion, or extractions
Sensitive digestive system – prone to vomiting, diarrhea, constipation or gas
Urinary incontinence
Recurrent anal gland impaction
Recurrent ear infections
Painful bladder or prostate conditions
Skin lesions as a result of excessive licking

At our hospital, all veterinary tasks or treatments performed by persons who are not veterinarians are carried out under the delegation and supervision of a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine who is a registered member of the BCVMA.

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vancouver animal wellness hospital
Michael Goldberg, DVM; Erik Irre, DVM
105 e. broadway, vancouver, bc v5t 1w1 / phone: 604.738.4664 / fax: 604.738.4694
Hours of Operation: Monday, Thursday & Friday: 9am - 6pm, Tuesday & Wednesday: 9am - 7pm, Saturday: 9am - 5pm

homeopathy | nutrition | acupuncture | chiropractic | full-service surgery | physiotherapy/rehabilitation hydrotherapy | behaviourist | conventional medicine | grief counselling | overnight monitoring available

vancouver animal wellness hospital

homeopathy | nutrition | acupuncture | chiropractic | full-service surgery | physiotherapy/rehabilitation
hydrotherapy | behaviourist | conventional medicine | grief counselling | overnight monitoring available

vancouver
animal
wellness
hospital