Documentation is also important from a legal perspective, as a record of the animal's condition and a clear documentation of the procedures performed. For example, consider an animal that has just completed a therapy session in which it demonstrated weight bearing on the affected extremity 75% of...
For this reason, even the highest quality evidence of efficacy of an intervention in, for example, humans, dogs, or cats, has limited evidentiary value in equids. Veterinary Scientific Literature Perhaps the greatest single advance in veterinary medicine has been the increase in the amount of ...
Correlations between childhood exposure to animal abuse and bullying behaviors have been reported by several authors (for example, see Baldry, 2005; Gullone & Robertson, 2008; Henry & Sanders, 2007; Parkes & Signal, 2017; Sanders & Henry, 2015; Vaughn et al., 2011; Walters, 2019). Currie...
The pilomotor response is one example of a somatovisceral reflex (a sympathetic nerve response) resulting from acupuncture and affecting most of the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral segments even when only a few segments have been stimulated. This response occurs mainly in horses with signs of diff...