Finding an IVDD Vet- Strategies

Finding a good IVDD vet can be tricky. Tips and strategies to hire the right vet for your dog.

An Uncommon Disease, Myelomalacia

What it means when your vet provides you with awareness information about Myelomalacia

Stomach protection during a disc episode — 3 reasons why

There are multiple factors involved in causing extra stomach acids that will typically happen during a disc episode.

Home IVDD cervical (neck) care tips

Home IVDD neck care includes owners knowing the extra things to help with cervical neck pain during a current disc episode.

Express bladder and bowels for health

Manually expressing the bladder for a paralyzed dog is a health issue. Expressing his poop is easy to learn. It avoids anxiety of finding feces where he sleeps.

Acupuncture-Laser Therapies

Acupuncture and laser therapy are an aid to kick-start nerves to self-heal. With more severe neurological damage, these therapies work best together rather than separately.

Chiropractic (aka VOM)

IVDD dogs are not the same as a person with a bad disc. Risks with chiro to an IVDD dog is adjustment could cause more disc damage including potential for permanent spinal cord damage.

Dodgerslist and veterinary professionals team up to teach

Veteriarians and scientists comment on Dodgerslist

Steroids vs. Non-steroidals

Know the valuable benefits of anti-inflammatory drugs during an IVDD disc episode. However, what you do not know about these two classes of drugs could harm your dog.

Hope and Quality of Life for All

Not Sure What To Expect About Quality Of Life?

YES, Your Dog CAN Have a Great Quality of Life!

True success with IVDD is measured by the most important goal of returning your dog to a pain free, happy and full-of-love quality of life after a surgery or from conservative treatment. Should paralysis occur, please know that dogs do not view the lack of ability to walk as a minus as humans do. Dogs adjust to what is and then get on with the business of fully enjoying all that life has to offer until nerves repair! Learn how to rethink things if you are struggling the quality of life question:

Wheelchairs are for living life while waiting on nerve function to return! You never know where life will take you. What is important to dogs is not how to get from point A to B, but that they can!

Clark runs like the wind.

Wheelchair dogs’ first visit to a beach!

Which dog is not like the others?

“The three dogs on the right are all IVDD Survivors! Jake in the cart went down 3.5 years ago. Reggie to his right recovered from his latest bout only a month before this photo was taken last summer. Angel, my darling grand-puppy, was the first to be born with IVDD. I don’t know what I would have done without the knowledge we gained here at Dodgerslist” ~Anne

Cart dog runs with his friends.

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