"Acupuncture involves the insertion of very thin needles through your skin at strategic points on your pet's body. A key component of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture is most commonly used to treat pain. Increasingly, it is being used for overall wellness, including stress management.

Traditional Chinese medicine explains acupuncture as a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life force — known as chi or qi (chee) — believed to flow through pathways (meridians) in your pet's body. By inserting needles into specific points along these meridians, acupuncture practitioners believe that your pet's energy flow will re-balance.  In contrast, many Western practitioners view the acupuncture points as places to stimulate nerves, muscles and connective tissue. Some believe that this stimulation boosts your pet's body's natural painkillers." (Based on statements about acupuncture from Mayo Clinic)

Our highly trained doctors provide integrative therapies using both acupuncture and traditional veterinary medicine to achieve a thorough evaluation of a pet’s entire body. Based on the exam results, a combination of prevention and treatment is developed to treat pain and chronic diseases.

Acupuncture can benefit all life stages (juvenile, adult and senior) and a variety of conditions.  It works particularly well to help reduce the cumulative effect of chronic illness. 

For more information about acupuncture on pets, please go to American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture (AAVA) .

Class IV Lasers are currently the fastest growing modality in both the veterinary and human medical fields. As an FDA-approved medical device, therapy lasers employ different wavelengths of light that penetrate tissues of the body to allow therapeutic benefit. The wavelengths of light stimulate blood circulation to the treatment areas as well as stimulate different biochemical reactions at the cell level in treated tissues. The light's effect, put simply, stimulates the body's normal pain relieving and healing processes to occur at an accelerated rate. This translates in to what we see as the positive effects of treatment – pain relief and rapid healing. During treatment, the only sensation noted by the patient is a mild warming of the treatment area, and often soon after (sometimes during!) a noticeable improvement in comfort level.

Given the method of action of the Class IV Laser, it has multiple possibilities for use in the care and treatment of our patients. Indications include back/neck pain, osteoarthritis, soft tissue injuries, and wounds. It has been a successful addition in treating pets with these problems and in many instances allowed faster recovery times as well as lower doses of pain medication. It also has application for our patients undergoing wound healing whether it occurred from trauma or was a result of surgery or dental work. It has proven to speed healing time in all of these procedures as well as provide additional pain relief during the healing process.