Signalment
- Species: dog
Disease Notes
- Certainty: confirmed
- Final Status: slightly better as of day 752 of treatment
Treatment and Outcome
Problem Notes
- Cervical Myelopathy: Was diagnosed by Cornell neurologist with unidentified progressive neurologic disorder.
Treatments
- Curcumin And Boswellia Antiinflammatory Extract
- Endocannabinoid Support Formula
- Assisi Loop
- Bu Gan Tang
- Chai Ge Ie Ji Tang
Notes: Saw Bode for ataxia, pain, quality of life. Treated with chiropractic, AP. Pulse wiry, improved with treating BL 18, skin dry, ordered Bu Gan Tang. Recommended Assisi Loop for pain, sent home on Curcumin & Boswellia, high dose CBD, Dog was taking Gabapentin already. Tested negative for tick-borne disease. Worse with weather changes, especially wind.
Diet is largely raw
Acupuncture points were stimulated
Manipulation or massage was performed
Notes: Bode was still knocking over badly and had developed abrasions on the tops of his fore paws. But overall, he seems to be improving on CGJJT, and owner is hopeful
Diet is largely raw
Acupuncture points were stimulated
Manipulation or massage was performed
Notes: Started Bode on Clavamox, 875 mg BID in late September as per Dr. Marsden's suspicion of discospondylitis. Episodes of trembling and fever resolved within 2 weeks, but it has taken much longer for his neurologic signs to slowly improve. He is continuing with the AB, CGJJT, Curcumin & Boswellia and CBD. He received several cranio-sacral treatments from a human practitioner, who said deep seated PTSD was part of his problem. From mid-October, he has gotten weekly acupuncture and chiropractic treatments, and just this past week, the benefits lasted until the next treatment.
Acupuncture points were stimulated
Manipulation or massage was performed
Notes: Have not done AP or Chiro since December. Doing fantastic. Stopped AB, changed cannabis formula to one with high CBG. Still has good and bad days, but mostly good and bad days are not as bad.
Notes:
Saw Bode for the first time in 18 months. He has been fairly stable at a level his people feel is improved from his worst. One of the owners dabbles in energy medicine and has been doing daily sessions of a technique called Jin Shin Jyutsu, which they say is an energy technique from Japan. He was unable to explain the goals of it very well to me, but says that Bode's biggest problem area is thoracic spine.
They say he has adapted well to his front end weakness--maybe is better, maybe is better compensated. He no longer falls like he used to. He takes more interest in the world, and enjoys life and nature. He is able to move his neck both up and down. Can do a small series of steps but needs help with longer stairs. They say he is unable to flex his spine, and poops walking, without posturing. Appetite is still iffy-- she hand feeds him every day.
Owner got in touch because recently he began avoiding walking on hard surfaces. Feet are not sensitive to palpation. He growled when I palpated his mid-thoracic region and warned me again when I was feeling the para-sacral muscles near his tail.
His tongue is bright pink, pulse was rapid and soft, easily compressible but even. His coat is better now than when we were treating him previously for Liver Yin deficiency.
Diet is largely raw
Manipulation or massage was performed