Acupuncture & pain management support for your pet in the comfort of your own home
Initial assessment / treatment
Follow-up
4-session course
Recover programme
What I do
Have you got a pet who is struggling with chronic pain or another chronic illness that conventional veterinary treatment isn’t managing?
Maybe your animal can’t tolerate regular medications due to side effects or other conditions.
Or maybe you’ve experienced the amazing effects of acupuncture yourself and want your pet to benefit from the same safe and effective treatment!
I offer acupuncture treatment to dogs, cats, rabbits and other small pets in your own home, on referral from your primary vet. The benefits of this are that your pet has access to acupuncture wherever you choose to be registered, and we can avoid the stress of transport and the busy clinical environment of the veterinary surgery. If your pet has mobility issues we are not asking them to make a painful journey to a clinic.
Alongside acupuncture as a sole service I also offer a tailored support service to aid you in managing all factors involved in your pet’s chronic illness, covering aspects such as easy home adaptations, reviewing how well medication is working and assessing how well both your pet and yourself are coping with the burden of managing a chronic disease.
Carole has been treating my senior lab alongside pain relief medication for arthritis. We’ve seen a real positive change in her mobility. Carole is always calm and patient when delivering the treatments. We would recommend her to anyone 🙂
AMBER’S OWNER
Tilly’s Story
Sometimes pet owners are concerned their pet will be stressed or find acupuncture painful, which can be a barrier to trying it. In this video I show how I would approach your pet at our first meeting, taking time to gain their trust and demonstrating how well most pets tolerate the needles.
Benefits
Acupuncture releases endorphins ( the body’s own morphine-like chemicals) and stimulates blood flow to constricted areas to relieve pain and promote healing
Acupuncture can relieve tension and constriction in the myofascial system (muscles and connective tissues). These often become painful secondarily to the initial disease, as the animal tries to compensate for or protect the damaged area - sometimes these actually become the primary source of pain for the animal
Acupuncture can influence the emotional centres of the brain and autonomic nervous system to bring a painful animal out of their ‘flight or flight’ state into a calmer state of mind, reducing muscular tension and anxiety to improve wellbeing
Acupuncture is extremely safe in trained hands; it can be tolerated by all pets no matter what medical conditions they have or what medications they are already on
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Carole is fabulous with the dogs, they all need something different from their treatment needs and the way they need to be handled. She is kind with them and within 4 sessions they trust her and are happy to be handled…. I would highly recommend her to treat your furry ones.
FIA & NIMBUS’ OWNER
