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The AVMC offers veterinary acupuncture for horses, ponies, dogs, cats, cattle, buffalo, donkeys,
goats, llamas, alpacas, reindeer, ferrets, rabbits and other species of animal.
The Alternative Veterinary Medicine Centre (AVMC) practises animal acupuncture as part of an integrated
and holistic approach to veterinary medicine, carried out in a relaxed, rural environment. The Centre is based on
an old farmhouse, situated in the picturesque Vale of the White Horse.
Horses and farm animals are usually visited at their own premises, around the UK, while dogs, cats and other smaller
animals are usually brought to us. However, house visits to dogs, cats and others can also be arranged and horses can be brought
to a nearby holistic livery, if it is more convenient.
We invite and accept referrals for veterinary acupuncture.
We also offer online video consultations for those who are too distant to travel, live abroad or cannot travel to us for other reasons [UK & International]. This
service is also available for horses. We can offer Homeopathy, Herbs etc. by this means. However, hands-on therapies, such as Acupuncture and Chiropractic Manipulation, are not available by this route.
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Acupuncture vet:
Christopher Day is a holistic vet and acupuncture vet with 37 years of experience. He has been using veterinary acupuncture
(acupuncture for animals) for more than 27 years.
The main benefits of acupuncture for animals are:
1. Acupuncture can relieve pain, via the release of endorphins (morphine-like endogenous opioid chemicals,
which are the body's natural pain-killers and anti-stress messengers). This is particularly useful when an animal suffers acute
neck pain or back pain but is also beneficial in the treatment of chronic pain.
2. Veterinary acupuncture can stimulate the body's own healing and defence mechanisms.
3. Vet acupuncture can offer an alternative to drug medication, thus avoiding drug side-effects.
4. It can offer the veterinary acupuncturist alternative therapeutic possibilities, when drug medicine or surgery
may have failed.
5. It is well-tolerated or even enjoyed by most animal patients.
Acupuncture has survived thousands of years, a true 'test of time' and yet is still used as first-line medicine for a
large percentage of the human population of the world. It is gaining in popularity, in the West, as a result of disillusionment
with drug side-effects, the continuing prevalence of chronic and debilitating disease and the sense of well-being that can
be induced by this gentle form of therapy. This is true of acupuncture in animals, just as much as for humans.
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Acupuncture usually refers to the use of needles
but there are other ways of stimulating acupuncture points. At the AVMC, we use LASER stimulation, finger pressure (acupressure),
moxa (moxibustion), electrical stimulation or injection, in addition to the needling option. Different methodologies appear
to suit various individual patients, so we allow the patient a 'say' in the mode of treatment chosen.
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Christopher Day, vet acupuncturist for over 25 years, has been involved in the academic side
of the training of acupuncture vets (veterinary acupuncturists - vet acupuncturists).
Alternative Veterinary Medicine Centre
Chinham House
Stanford in the Vale
Oxfordshire SN7 8NQ
UK
Tel.: 01367 710324
Fax: 01367 718243
major website: www.alternativevet.org
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