Preventive Care

• Nutritional Counseling
  A major sign of this disease is pain, secondary to the inflammation from the infection. The infection is typically in an organ system like the urinary bladder, prostate, or heart valve and carried in the blood to the vertebral endplates. Because there is often systemic infection these dogs are often sick with a fever, no appetite, and weight loss. The disease can progress and cause pressure on the spinal cord from an abscess around the spinal cord (empyema), a slipping (luxation) or even a fracture of the vertebrae. The signs of spinal cord disease can include weakness (paresis) or paralysis, poor coordination (ataxia), and poor sense of limb position (proprioception).
• Comprehensive Examination
  Neurologic examination — A neurologic examination involves a thorough physical exam as well as an evaluation of your pet’s mental status, gait and body posture, cranial nerve examination, and reflex testing.

Illness Treatment

• Parasites Treatment and Control
• Pain Management
  High success rates and low recurrence rates make surgery an ideal option in many cases. Benefits unique to surgery include faster pain control, rapid return to function, and low recurrence rates.

Infection Treatment

• Bacterial and Viral Infection Treatment
  The most common diseases of the peripheral nerve are bacterial infection and inflammation that cross from the middle ear into inner ear, low thyroid and a process called idiopathic peripheral vestibular disease. The most common diseases of the brainstem are granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis (GME), tumor, stroke, low thyroid and infection.

Chronic Condition Treatment

• Thyroid Disease Treatment
• Cancer Treatment
  The prognosis for canine meningioma treated with steroid and seizure medication is thought to be very poor with most dogs surviving only about 3 months. This time can be extended to about 6 months with the addition of a relatively safe and very well tolerated chemotherapy called hydroxyurea. Surgery plus hydroxyurea or radiation therapy alone are thought to provide about 1 year. Surgery plus radiation may result in an average survival of about 11/2 years.

Surgery

• Veterinary Surgery
  Unlike other forms of veterinary surgery where surgery alone may successfully resolve orthopedic, skeletal or soft-tissue injuries; neurosurgery often requires complicated surgical procedures, expert understanding of the complex systems that underlie neurologic conditions and experience with how to best provide care to a recovering patient. Our training, dedication and expertise allow us to perform these life-saving and complex neurosurgeries almost every day.

Lab and X-Rays

• X-Ray