Acupuncture For Cats - A Natural Way Of Pain Relief Treatment

It seems quite unusual to offer acupuncture for cats as part of a pain relief therapy. Cat parents may find it at first hard to imagine that their cat would stay relaxed during a session and be patient enough to bear this kind of treatment. However, the initial scepticism disappears very quickly when a feline patient settles and relaxes visibly within a few minutes.

Pet acupuncture is a gentle, but very powerful natural pain relief treatment and may work very well for cats suffering from certain painful conditions. It can be well combined with conventional veterinary treatment and medication and helps in many cases to reduce dosage and side effects of pain relieving drugs considerably. Integration into normal Western veterinary treatment is possible and therefore becoming more and more popular amongst practising vets.

'Rosie', a young and very active domestic short hair, has had a bad accident. She broke her hind leg and needed specialist orthopedic surgery to plate the bone so it could heal properly. When the wound was healing up it became obvious that 'Rosie' was not able to use her leg at all. She also started to chew her left hind paw constantly. It was that bad, that amputation seemed to be the only option.

'Rosie' went through a fairly quick recovery during the eight once-a-week treatment sessions. Most to the surprise of her owners, she started to put down her paw again and would walk on it first cautiously, but soon better and better. The injuries caused by 'Rosie' chewing her paw faded away during the time of treatment and started to heal. It was very interesting to see how well this normally very lively, young cat would tolerate treatment with acupuncture needles.

Cats respond usually very well to acupuncture therapy. Being a hunter and predator, felines possess a very alert and responsive nervous system, which reacts readily to the stimulation of acupuncture points with special, fine needles. Improvement of a condition that can be treated with acupuncture may be truly amazing sometimes, depending on a cat patient's individual health condition.

Very often cat parents are surprised to learn that felines can relax and benefit a lot from this kind of medical therapy.
If assessment and treatment is carried out by a trained veterinary professional, cats will respond usually well to acupuncture.

Acupuncture for cats is a complementary therapy that may help to improve certain health conditions and recovery from an injury in a gentle, relaxing way without serious side effects. Pet acupuncture is now offered by many veterinary surgeries, as it is a real alternative in pain relief treatment and can easily be integrated into pain management programs for cats and other animals.