Скачать или смотреть CAM LIVE: Managing your dog’s arthritis with Andy Gardiner

Multi-disciplinary teams are common in human medicine but have only recently become more prevalent when managing dogs with chronic diseases or after surgery. Andy Gardiner, who started his career as a human physiotherapist, and Hannah Capon look at the role of the physiotherapist as part of a team including surgeons, consultants, first opinion vets, vet nurses and, sometimes, behaviourists. Andy stresses the need to educate owners so that they can understand the similarities in anatomy and structure between humans and dogs and empathise with their pets. As well as discussing how physiotherapy fits into the treatment plan for an older arthritic dog, they also cover how dogs that have been diagnosed at a young age can be managed and finish by looking at preventative measures that can be put in place for puppies and young dogs to try to minimise the severity of any arthritis in later life.

Every CAM LIVE finishes with Ten Top Tips for managing your arthritic dog (from 1:07:01 in this video).

Andy Gardiner is Head Animal Physiotherapist at Southern Counties Veterinary Specialists in Hampshire, UK.

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Canine Arthritis Management (CAM) is a veterinary driven initiative, set up by vet Hannah Capon who was becoming overwhelmed with the number of dogs she was having to put to sleep having "gone off their legs". This was often seen by the owners as a sudden incident, when in truth that dog had probably been suffering in silence for a long time prior to that day. In fact, we believe that as many as 1 in 5 dogs in the UK, and 80% of dogs over the age of 8, will have some degree of osteoarthritis. Unlike humans, dogs are unable to express their pain in words. Chronic pain is no doubt something most people will understand and empathise with, but it can be difficult to tell when a dog is suffering in the same way. We want to challenge the preconceived notion that "just getting old" or "slowing down" should be accepted in our four footed companions. Ageing in itself is not a disease! Here at CAM we think that by changing owner, vet and public perception of arthritis, we can improve and extend the lives of dogs.