Choosing Holistic Healing For Animals For Your Pet

By Henry Cole


Holistically designed medical and therapeutic programs have been in use for years for humans. People who suffer from a host of ailments like addiction to chronic pain often benefit from treatment that treats the whole person rather than a summary of symptoms or specific body parts. This form of treatment is now carrying over to other wellness industries including veterinarian practices. When you have a pet who suffers from a specific health ailment, you may want to seek out holistic healing for animals.

Veterinarians have known for a long time that an animal is fully capable of experiencing the same type of physical and psychological trauma as humans. Pets like cats and dogs are sentient beings, after all, and more than capable of feeling not only pain but also fear, anxiety, and uncertainty about their own health. Given this fact, many vets agree that pets could benefit from treatments that are holistically designed.

Providers who offer holistically designed programs for pets acknowledge the consciousness of cats, dogs, and other creatures and thus treat them as whole beings. They not only address medical issues these creatures face but also the psychological and emotional aspect of suffering from a certain illness or health condition. In this way, pets benefit and heal faster than if they were to receive symptomatic treatment.

At the very least, it can address the immediate psychological need as well as the medical issue at the heart of why the creature needs treatment. For instance, a dog with arthritis might suffer not only from chronic pain but also anxiety because of the illness. It may be afraid to get up and walk, for example, and only reluctantly get up on all fours to please its owner. It is the anxiety along with the pain that must be treated.

One of these programs will address the arthritic symptoms while also treating anxiety and fear associated with the illness. The provider may use a soothing tone of voice while massaging the dog's limbs and muscles. The combination of the soothing voice along with the sensation of the massage could put the dog's mind at ease and also ease the distress that is caused directly by the illness from which it suffers.

In the same way, this therapeutic approach might come in useful for rehabilitating abused and neglected pets. A cat that has been abandoned by its owners, for example, may have grown mistrustful of all humans. It may try to bite and scratch when someone handles it. The therapy may help the animal overcome its mistrust, however, and thus become a more desirable prospect for adopting into a stable home.

To achieve this, the caregivers may use a variety of techniques designed to gain the creature's trust. They might utilize play time as a method of getting the cat to relax and engage with its atmosphere. While playing with the cat, they might use a calming tone of voice that puts the cat at ease. Within a matter of days, it could learn to trust humans again and get past its trauma.

By using holistic treatments, vets and animal caretakers could change the lives of animals brought to them for care. They address physical, emotional, and mental traumas. Pets are treated as whole beings rather than a sum of symptoms or targeted body parts.




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