Poor Pilau and his Poorly Back

[DanaC]

Poor Pilau!

He's been having trouble with his joints of late, and we've been back and forth to the vets trying to get the right medicine regime sorted out (which we have now done). But he's also been having increasing problems with his back. Can't roll over onto his side properly, uber sensitive if your hand brushes near to his spine etc. He's had what I've suspected to be problems with either his back or his hips for some years, but only very slight.

So, got the vet to check his back out. There are at least two possible occasions wherein Pilau might have acquired a back injury; when he was hit by a car aged 3 or about 3/4 years ago when he fell off a low (15-17 foot) cliff.

Vet checked his back and it was obvious just looking at the muscle response that he had something going on. So tense.

Yesterday he went for his first round of acupuncture; something she does for her lurcher who has had a similar history of smallish accidents and as a consequence has a really bad back.

It's really made a difference to him. He's been way more relaxed today and the muscles in his back don' feel so knotted. Slightly annoyed I didn't think to mention this sooner: we've been so focused on his joints, and in particular hips, it just didn't occur to me til this last visit.

So, yeah: Poor Pilau. He must have been in such pain, and probably for quite a while.