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Latest Integrative Nonsense from the Integrative Veterinary Care Journal- Spring 2017

Posted on April 5, 2017 by skeptvet

Introduction Alternative medicine practitioners have had a lot of success marketing their methods to the mainstream veterinary profession by obscuring or downplaying the most egregiously unscientific and ridiculous of their beliefs and practices when speaking outside of their own groups. … Continue reading →

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The Unfortunate Role of Alternative Medicine in the Animal Hospice Movement

Posted on May 22, 2016 by skeptvet

I first wrote about the subject of hospice care for animals in the first year of this blog, 2009. I feel strongly that there is a need to adapt the concepts of hospice and palliative care developed in human medicine … Continue reading →

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SkeptVet’s Acupuncture Adventure- The Hand’s On Training and Wrap-Up

Posted on April 22, 2016 by skeptvet

After nearly 100 hours on online instruction and independent study, my acupuncture training has concluded with a 5-day hands-on practicum and both a written and practical exam. All that remains to do to finish my certification in Veterinary Medical Acupuncture … Continue reading →

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SkeptVet’s Acupuncture Adventure- Part 4: Spinal Cord Injury

Posted on October 6, 2015 by skeptvet

Introduction This lecture had surprisingly little information about acupuncture itself. It began with a review of the pathophysiology of spinal cord injury and the typical steps for evaluating and stabilizing patients presenting with acute spinal cord injury. Most of the … Continue reading →

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Discussion of Homeopathy Continues in the AVMA

Posted on April 3, 2013 by skeptvet

Over the last few months, I have followed the progress of a resolution introduced to the American Veterinary Medical Association House of Delegates identifying homeopathy as an ineffective therapy incompatible with evidence-based medicine. The story can be traced through several … Continue reading →

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Veterinary Arthritis Treatments

Posted on March 24, 2011 by skeptvet

Over the couple of years of producing this blog, I have written about many different subjects. Some have come up repeatedly, and because they represent common and important issues, I thought it might be useful to collect related posts I’ve … Continue reading →

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CAM Word Salad

Posted on January 29, 2010 by skeptvet

I often find that rationalizations of alternative medicine are garbled and hard to follow, but I recently ran across a site promoting veterinary alt med that combines the usual fuzzy logic with an mechanical or straight-from-the-dictionary translation into English, with … Continue reading →

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Veterinary Chiropractic

Posted on June 5, 2009 by skeptvet

What is it?   Chiropractic is primarily the manipulation of bones in the spine in an effort to treat or prevent disease or to reduce discomfort. Though therapeutic manipulation of bones in the spine and elsewhere has a long history, … Continue reading →

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