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What you CAN DO when it comes to DM and IVDD

Learn the latest practices in helping dogs with Degenerative Myelopathy or IVDD

  • The difference between DM and other spinal cord conditions like IVDD and why early intervention is so important

  • What is IVDD and what does the latest research study show when it comes to whether or not surgery is needed to walk again

  • How diet, supplementation, and herbs combined with physiotherapy can promote spinal cord healing!

  • How to provide optimal care at home for a dog with paralysis

  • Mobility aid or rehab tool? Therapeutic exercise, dog wheelchairs, and mobility aides to restore mobility .

Doing nothing simply isn't an option for a dog with DM or rear paralysis. There is always something you can do to help your dog, you just don't know what it is until now...

~ Sarah MacKeigan

We brought together the latest research studies, vet medicine, integrative vet medicine, hospice care , and canine rehab into one space!

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Our Guest Speakers

Professor Paul Freeman

MA VetMB CertSAO DipECVN MRCVS EBVS® European Specialist in Veterinary Neurology Teaching Professor Principal Clinical Neurologist

Principal Clinical Neurologist, Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Paul Freeman's research focuses on the management of canine spinal cord injuries, specifically intervertebral disc disease, and he has published widely on this topic in the last few years. He has had a mainly clinical role, an yet has been able to combine research and teaching interests, and the Cambridge Intervertebral Disc Disease research group now consists of 2 PhD students with multiple external collaborators. "Can dogs rendered non-ambulatory following acute compressive thoracolumbar intervertebral disc herniation recover ambulation without decompressive surgery? with an emphatic 'Yes'"..... P. F.
Research in Intervertebral Disc Disease in Dogs

Dr Steve Marsden

Gold Standard Herbs

Dr. Steve Marsden is one of the chief educators of veterinarians worldwide in the use of complementary and alternative therapies. He is among the most extensively trained veterinarians in alternative medicine in the world, co-founder of the College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies, director of the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, CVMA representative to the Veterinary Natural Health Products Advisory Committee and founder of Natural Path Herb Company.
Gold Standard Herbs

Michele Allen

Monkey's House Dog Hospice & Sanctuary

Michele Allen is the co-founder and Executive Director of Monkey’s House Dog Hospice & Sanctuary. She’s a retired RN-BSN whose nursing career spanned various hospitals from The University of Pennsylvania to specialty hospitals such as Deborah Heart & Lung. Michele received numerous awards including “Nurse of the Year” in 1997. Years later, her love and knowledge of animals led Michele to her true calling, caring for medically challenged dogs. She is a member of the International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care. In 2022 she partnered with Dr. Judy Morgan to create an online course “An Integrative Approach to Hospice and Palliative Care for Dogs”
Monkey's House & Hospice

Dr Jenny Moe

Doggon Wheels

Dr. Jenny is a licensed human physical therapist of 20 years and earned her certification in canine rehabilitation 13 years ago from the Canine Rehabilitation Institute. In 2009, Dr. Jenny left pediatrics to work in a busy specialty veterinary practice in the San Francisco Bay Area (SAGE Veterinary Centers). She moved on to open a practice (Pawesome PT). Dr. Jenny now focuses on a mobile manual therapy practice and Doggon' Wheels back in the San Francisco area. Dr. Jenny is excited to pair her love for assistive devices, senior pets, and creative solutions with the business. She has a passion for educating the veterinary world and the public about the benefits of early use of wheels for a wide variety of patients, and undoing the belief that wheels are "the end of the road/last resort". She is well-known among her colleagues for her creative treatment approaches and solutions, or MacGyvering things to tailor ideas to individual cases.
Doggon Wheels

Meet your host, Sarah MacKeigan

Canine Rehab Therapist, Founder of Living with Dogs with Disabilities Community, Inspired Dog Mom

Canine Rehab Therapist, Founder of Living with Dogs with Disabilities, & Inspired Dog Parent

Sarah MacKeigan

THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO... HI! Thank you for being here 🙏. After an almost 5 year journey with Degenerative Myelopathy, my heart dog 🐾❤️ Sammie crossed the rainbow bridge right before the Covid lockdown in 2020. I found myself grieving and saw so many dog parents online, struggling with their dogs, especially those with neurologic conditions like Sam's. I wanted to help and needed to put my pain somewhere it could make a difference. Bringing together my personal experience and professional canine rehab knowledge, I founded Living with Dogs with Disabilities - a Facebook community dedicated to promoting mobility and canine rehab so pet parents and professionals could learn from others everything that CAN BE DONE to help these dogs. I believe that if pain is manageable and an animal isn't in immediate risk, that there is ALWAYS SOMETHING YOU CAN DO, and doing nothing simply isn't an option. This is why I've invested so much into educating and connecting online. To facilitate interactions with experts in various fields of canine health, wellness, and rehab to dog parents wanting to do more for their pups. You're dog may or may not recover from an injury or disease, but that doesn't mean you are helpless and their life is over, In fact - "IT'S NOT OVER, IT'S JUST DIFFERENT" are powerful words to live by. Today I have my own practice in canine rehabilitation in Nova Scotia, Canada and impacted thousands of dog parents online with over 500k video views and 21k followers across social platforms My goal is for every dog parent that that gets a diagnosis for their dog, like DM, is then told of what they CAN DO and WHO CAN HELP THEM do it. 💞

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Learn about proven therapies to help enhance and maybe even restore your dog's mobility.

For professionals and dog parents with a dog with DM, IVDD, or a condition causing rear weakness or paralysis, this is your opportunity to learn in a safe space, with likeminded humans, from world class professionals!

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Disclaimer

All information in this course/program and in our private Facebook group is intended for educational purposes only. Information provided during this event does not replace medical care of you dog. The authors, organizers, and speakers are not responsible for any injuries that may occur or guarantee specific results made or implied on this website. Injury to your dog is always a risk if you do not follow due diligence and seek out professional advice for your dog's injury.

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