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Physical methods

used to alleviate pain:

complementary therapies

Samantha Lindley

Acupoint abbreviations used in ■ Acupuncture
this chapter: ■ Physiotherapy
■ ydrotherapy
BL – Bladder ■ Chiropractic
CV – Conception vessel ■ steopathy
GB – Gallbladder ■ Bowen therapy
GV – Governing vessel ■ Pressure point massage therapeutic
LI – Large intestine massage
PC – Pericardium
SP – Spleen 3 Physical therapies commonly used in
veterinary pain management.
ST – Stomach
therapist and animal, changes occur in the
animal that may have non speci c e ects on
The use of physical therapies in veterinary pain the pain. Positive social interactions cause a
management is increasingly popular with clients reduction in blood pressure and release of
igure 6.1 . his is partly because they have a neurotransmitters that improve mood, but are
sense that such approaches must be safe; partly also associated with pain relief Uvnas oberg
because they feel that such treatments allow et al., 199 ; dendaal, .
them to have some active involvement in their Notwithstanding the di culties of a veteri-
pet s care; and partly because they assume not nary, clinically oriented evidence base, some
always correctly that such approaches will physical therapies do have a convincing body of
avoid or limit pharmacological analgesia. animal experimental and human clinical studies.
uality research on the speci c e cacy of
an intervention is inherently more di cult for
physical therapies than for pharmacological Acupuncture
treatments because blinding of the sub ect and
owner and therapist is not straightforward. As Acupuncture, although perhaps not
soon as physical contact occurs between immediately thought of as a physical therapy,

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