Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2014, Pages 6–9
Advances in Rehabilitation
Topical Review
Proposed Treatment for Geriatric Vestibular Disease in Dogs
Sudden-onset
vestibular dysfunction in the canine is a commonly seen condition in
veterinary practice, with some veterinarians reporting several cases
each month. However, traditional veterinary medicine has little to offer
these patients other than symptomatic relief for the severe nausea that
accompanies the vertigo and supportive advice for the owners. Owners of
affected dogs are informed that these symptoms usually resolve within a
few days. As physical therapists, we often see cases of benign
paroxysmal positional vertigo in our human practice clinics, and
effective protocols for diagnosis and treatment of the condition have
been developed for this condition. A modified testing and repositioning
postural maneuver used successfully on 12 canine patients in our canine
rehabilitation clinic (The Canine Fitness Centre, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada) is hereby described.
Keywords
- vestibular dysfunction;
- equilibrium;
- idiopathic vestibular disease;
- ear;
- BPPV
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