Read how these 7 animals were helped by acupressure
Raz
My 6 yr old lab/bloodhound mix
I made an appointment with the Vet to get it checked out. I was totally wrong, she had a torn ACL, that’s why I always stress get a proper diagnosis from a vet. The Vet recommended surgical repair, that costs around $5000. My neighbors dog had the same surgery about 6 months before this and had still not fully recovered. I told my Vet I was going to try acupressure first and he was fine with that as he had seen what it did for Vega, the dog I rescued with a broken back. He asked if I wanted to try laser therapy with the acupressure. It would be 6 sessions every couple days. I opted to try one session while we were there, but not the others as I thought trying to get a 120lb dog in and out of the truck would not be beneficial to healing. She did respond well to the treatment and walked better when we left the office.
I do have red and green pointer lasers that I use on acupressure points when the acupoints are sensitive to touch. I used the green one on the acupoints that were in the damaged knee so I didn’t cause her any discomfort. I did regular acupressure on the other acupoints needed for healing.
Seeing how well the laser effected her pain I looked into the different lights available for purchase and read a lot of info about light therapy not put out by companies trying to sell you something. I opted to get red, green and blue LED flash lights to see how they worked. Knowing they aren’t as strong as the laser or the other lights available, I would have to keep the light on the knee longer. I also had a LED projection light( the kind you shine on the house for the holidays) that had red, green and blue. I decided to give that a try as well. Every evening for 2 weeks I did acupressure to heal the ACL followed by 10 minutes of the projection light held over her knee about a foot above it. After 2 weeks she no longer held the foot up when standing and was lightly limping. I kept up the treatment for 2 more weeks and she was almost as good as new.
I knew the dog that had the surgery was suppose to stay quiet and not do any running for 2 months. I did not confine her from doing anything and kept up only the projection light and some acupressure every couple days for another month. We went in for a check up and the Vet said she was doing great.
My large animal Vet was out about 3 months after her injury and I told him about it. He couldn’t tell which leg had the problem. He also told me how he was using my book combined with something he had been doing for horses with back problems and that using the correct acupoints from my book sped up the healing process. It makes me so happy to be able to help animals that I will never see. That was my main goal in writing these books.
Raz healed faster and stronger than the dog that had the surgery. I can’t say for sure if it was the treatment, lack of invasiveness, or the difference in personality. Raz is very mellow and the other dog is high strung. She is healed and that’s all that matters to me.
Martock
10 year old wethered Barbado sheep
Chang
3 year old male Buff Orpington Duck
Chang was partially paralyzed from the hips down one evening when I went out to feed. He could move his feet and legs, but not hold himself up. I brought him in the house and began reading about duck diseases in my Merck veterinary manual. Much to my surprise, waterfowl are very susceptible to having strokes. I can’t verify that was the problem, but it was my best guess, not many poultry doctors to call him to have him checked out. I massaged his Bladder Meridian a couple times a day and for his heart. We also did rehab swimming in the bathtub for an hour a day. After about a week he was doing well enough to go back out in the pasture.
Patrick
4 year old Rooster
Patrick was a limp, floppy bird one evening. A friend of mine was over to the house and took one look at him and said “I think he’s had it”. I massaged his Bladder Meridian a few times, put him in a box and hoped for the best. The next day he was as good as new. I have used the massage on the Bladder Meridian on many birds since then and they respond very well to it. I start at BL 10 and work down to BL 40 repeated 3 times. I use this massage on all the animals, it opens the chi flow though out the body. I haven’t met an animal that doesn’t enjoy it.
Vega
I started acupressure treatments on her daily while looking for her people. No one ever claimed her. After a month she stopped walking funny. After two months she was running and after three months she was able to jump up onto the couch. I did the treatments once a day for the first two months, it took about 5 minutes a treatment. After she started running I dropped the treatments down to once a week for a few months.
A year after I got her I took her back to the vet for booster shots. He was amazed and kept asking ” are you sure this is the same dog?”.
Penny
6 year old Pot Bellied Pig
One morning when I went out to feed the animals my pot bellied pig Penny had not eaten all her dinner from the night before. This has never happened before, right away I was worried. I found her in her house, she had a slight fever and was belching a lot. I figure she had some kind of intestinal or stomach problem. I used acupressure on her for constipation and immunity boost just in case it was something else.
WHAT I LEARNED: is how much fat slows down the movement of Qi. As you can see Penny has an abundance of fat. It took at least an hour to get her farting and about 6 hours to poop. In contrast to a chicken about 2 minutes after treatment it pooped. With a colicly horse it worked in about 10 minutes.
Hypno
The ER doctor had asked to let her know how Hypno did as well. I did go back and tell her everything that happened and she was very pleased at his recovery. She told me she is planning on taking classes to do acupuncture for animals and has seen that work very well. I told her I was thinking about putting together a book of charts because the other books were so hard to follow. She greatly encouraged me to do the book. She was so excited when I finally showed up with a book to show her and she bought one of the first copies, which led to a couple more sales to the acupuncture vets she knows. Hopefully Hypno’s unfortunate misery has led to many more animals being able to be helped by acupressure at home