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Heritage Animal Hospital offers acupuncture therapy for pets in Dundee, Ann Arbor, Toledo, and Monroe and the surrounding areas.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an alternative treatment based on Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM). It’s been practiced for many years as an integrative and complementary therapy to traditional veterinary care.
Dr. Christine offers this therapy in addition to our regenerative medicine services to help relieve pain, stimulate healing, and to advance recovery from illness. She studied acupuncture at the Chi Institute of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine.
Similar to acupuncture for humans, veterinary acupuncture involves the use of fine needles at specific pressure points where your pet’s nerves and blood vessels converge. The procedure releases endorphins in the body, which improves blood circulation and tissue oxygen levels and reduces pain and inflammation.
Acupuncture can be used to treat and help manage a variety of medical conditions including (but not limited to):
- Musculoskeletal disease – arthritis, degenerative joint disease, hip dysplasia, intervertebral disc disease
- Digestive problems – vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, megacolon
- Respiratory disease – asthma, laryngeal paralysis
- Chronic diseases – chronic kidney disease, immune-mediated disease
Most animals tolerate acupuncture very well and even find it relaxing. Depending on your pet’s medical status, positive results can occur after only a few sessions, improving your pet’s overall quality of life.
Ozone
What is ozone therapy?
Ozone therapy is a form of regenerative medicine that helps the body improve healing. Ozone is an activated form of oxygen with three oxygen atoms. As a pro-oxidant, it can aid the immune system in treating viral issues and kill bacteria, yeast, and fungi. Ozone therapy can help improve pain and inflammation by hyperoxygenating damaged tissues locally or systemically to improve tissue healing and also inactivate local bacteria. Healthy cells are surrounded by an enzyme coating, which ozone does not penetrate. Bacteria and yeast have no such coating allowing the Oxygen molecule to penetrate at the cellular level.
What can be ozone be used for?
Wherever there is inflammation, there is an increase in carbon dioxide in the tissue, and oxygen can benefit healing in that location.
The most commonly treated conditions at Heritage include:
- Anti-bacterial therapy and wound care
- Ear infections
- Skin conditions
- Dental infections typically during dental procedures
- Inflammatory diseases (IBD, bladder disease, etc.)
- Post-surgical use
How is ozone administered?
There are many methods of administering ozone. Here at Heritage, we have an ozone generator that allows us to make fresh ozonated saline by bubbling ozone gas through the fluid that can be administered subcutaneously or topically.
Heritage can also generate ozone gas to be administered humidified, directly into the colon rectally with soft, flexible tubing to be absorbed internally. This allows for direct systemic absorption in a non-invasive way. Wounds can be treated directly or with a special limb bag that allows us to directly apply ozone gas or ozonated fluids to a large area.
It can even be safely used as gas therapy, such as with ear infections, once it is bubbled through an olive oil medium to make it non-irritating to the lungs. Regardless of the method of delivery, ozone is a safe and non-painful regenerative therapy.
Ozone can also be made into ointments or shampoos to use topically that can be purchased through online sources.
If interested in this service, we will set you up an appointment to discuss if ozone therapy is right for your pet. If this is an option, we will then proceed to figuring out an appropriate treatment plan for the condition presented. Treatment plans do often include a series of administrations or multiple rounds to achieve the overall treatment goals.
Phovia
Heritage Animal Hospital offers Phovia light therapy, a treatment designed to promote healing and reduce inflammation of the skin in pets. Using advanced light technology, Phovia therapy accelerates tissue repair, relieves pain, and helps manage conditions such as wounds, and skin infections. This non-invasive therapy is safe, effective, and well-tolerated by animals, making it an ideal option for enhancing recovery and improving your pet’s overall comfort. Phovia light therapy is a gentle and efficient way to support your pet’s healing process.
To learn more about these services at Heritage Animal Hospital, please call us at (734)-529-9177 today.
Veterinary Services
Below are all of the veterinary services we offer at Heritage Animal Hospital. If you have any questions regarding our services, please feel free to call us.