Veterinary CPD
CAM offers practice talks for the whole practice team, with the intention of empowering all practice staff to be involved with setting up the “OA A team”. After these inciteful motivating lectures CAM aims to help you have your OA clinic up and running in-house or externally within days!
The practice will have the option of using CAM client resources, designed to enable a practice to get an OA clinic up, running and successful immediately after the training.
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How much thought have you put into your dogs joint supplement?
Do you know what's in it? Do you know how it works? Do you know IF it works?
In the book Multimodal Management of Canine Arthritis (Fox, 2016) the author outlines the ACCLAIM criteria for choosing a nutraceutical as follows:
A – a company name that you recognise, an established firm that provides veterinary educational materials.
C – clinical experience, i.e. companies that invest in clinical trials, and who publish data for respected journals.
C – content, all ingredients should be clearly indicated on the label
L – label claims, i.e. if they sound too good to be true, they probably are. Reference to clinical trials is better than simple testimonials. Any label suggesting they treat arthritis, cure arthritis or prevent arthritis are likely to be suspect.
A – administration, the dose recommendation should be accurate and easy to calculate
I – a lot identification number to indicate some form of surveillance is possible to test product quality
M – manufacturer information and ideally a link to website.
See our CAM conversation all about supplements here: bit.ly/2B7vPzn
caninearthritis.co.uk
Canine joint supplements are a multi-million pound business and there are thousands of dogs in the UK taking supplements, with or without veterinary supervision, to try and prevent or treat arthritis....I was reminiscing through old photos and found this gem
When and god knows how Holly tried to come in the house through the cat flap!!
How!??
But it made me think... It was easy back then...she wasn't ill...we were a "normal" dog and owner (kinda!)
We were lucky her diagnosis was in the latter part of her life ...many aren't as fortunate and I feel this topic is hugely neglected!!!
Help me prove this point... How old was your dog when your life had to change? And how did you know something was wrong?
Your input helps us create more awareness, more education and can change more lives
Xx
UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES
You have just replaced their old bed with a deep, predictable, soft but firm, bed, with sides....
Or you move their bed to a safer, more suitable location...
And they prefer their old one or the old place
Arghhhhhhh?!?!?!
What to do??
Patience and regularly remind them the new place is better by feeding them on it, putting the favourite things in or near it...
NB And remember anti slip surfaces around it...unlike this piccy xx
@CAMarthritis Guilty! In our pre-CAM lives we played chase the ball. Now we play hide and seek with the ball and we're all a lot happier!
