Thermography, Inflammation and Injury

[Dr. Jeff]

Hi everyone-

On Monday (9/16/19) we'll be starting the discussion about helping to get our pets into optimal shape to prevent injuries and how to help them if they do get injured when playing, competing, etc.

The HMDM (Holistic Medical Decision Making) Step 1 goal for injury is above.

As part of your research for Step 2, you may have learned about tools like the thermogram which detects areas of heat and inflammation in the body.

This helps pinpoint muscles with the increased blood flow associated with injury.

Board certified specialist (in equine and canine sports medicine and PT) Dr. Kim Henneman will be joining us.

Thermography is one of the tools that Dr. Kim uses and has written about:

http://www.animalhealthvips.com/articles/mushing_merged.pdf

http://www.animalhealthvips.com/articles/CleanRun_ThermImage.pdf

If you have any questions about these articles or for Dr. Kim otherwise, you can post them in this thread for discussion on Mon.

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Kelley asked Dr. Kim an awe-some question about ruptured cruciates and keeping knees healthy which is in a separate thread that can be found here:

Preventing a Torn Cruciate in the Other Knee After an ACL Rupture

Kelley asked a great question of Dr. Kim last night and here it is (with the answer): Flynn, my 7 year old female Chessie who partially tore her left CCL in 2018. We had her on a custom brace for 6 mos. and she "healed" but I wonder what ongoing therapy might be effective to prevent her...

www.holisticactions.com

 

[Dr. Jeff]

Here's Dr. Kim's replies to the questions you asked by chat during the webinar:

1. Sue asked: You had a lot of pictures of shoots (chutes) and Sue asked if shoots (chutes) had not been removed from agility trials.

Most were removed in 2016-2017, but many people still have them for training.

The pictures were also an example of the types of injuries that can happen on and in the various obstacles, including tunnels, teeters and A-frames.

Chutes are very illustrative because all the bad possibilities came together. Similar injuries can happen in other obstacles as the tire picture illustrated. Dogs can slip, fall off, jam front feet, pull muscles, etc - just like the picture of the schnauzer coming off of a contact. It also depends on how contacts are taught - running, two-on-two-off or four-on-the-floor.

Nicole wanted to know if there are some books and other resources for feeding the athlete/ and treating.

There isn't much out there for pet owners, unfortunately. I would recommend the Musher and Veterinarian Sled Dog Handbook by the International Sled Dog VMA (it is geared for mushers so there isn't too much medical lingo), Jean Dodd's book on Nutritgenomics, any of Chris Zink's books, and Jocelyn Jacob's book on Performance Dog Nutrition. If you want to go a bit more veterinary technical, I would recommend the 2nd Edition textbook Canine Sports Medicine and Rehab by Zink and Van Dyke.

Cyd was saying her dog (abroad) was treated successfully for ACL with 1% lidocaine injections.

Prolotherapy can use lidocaine. That would be my guess.

Do you have any links to proceedings for the British conference you mentioned?

‘New Horizons in Water Science’: Evidence for Homeopathy?

Royal Society of Medicine, London, 14 July 2018 Dr Alexander Tournier (HRI Executive Director) and Ms Rachel Roberts (HRI Chief Executive) were delighted to represent HRI at the recent research eve…

www.hri-research.org

 

[Dr. Christina]

The author Kim mentioned, Chris Zink, will be speaking on Oct 14 for the Empower Hour.