Integrative Veterinary Medicine 1st Edition

Your Clinical Guide to Integrative Veterinary Medicine 🐾

This book provides a clinically oriented, evidence-based guide to integrating complementary and conventional therapies into veterinary practice. It draws information on modalities such as acupuncture, manual therapies, and herbal medicine into a single resource, demonstrating how to use them effectively in your practice.

Key Features

• Integrated Modalities: The book covers acupuncture, manual therapies, botanical and herbal medicine, integrative nutrition, and physical rehabilitation, providing a comprehensive framework for patient treatment.
• Evidence-Based Practice: Rooted in evidence-based medicine, it demonstrates how to use these modalities in veterinary practice, ensuring clinically sound application.
• Acupuncture Detailed: Find detailed information on the anatomy and physiology of acupuncture, including soft tissue and neurologic concepts, and Traditional Chinese theory (Yin and Yang, Five Element Theory, and The Meridians).
• Herbal Medicine: The book explores the origins and major systems of herbal therapy with selected evidence-based interventions, adverse events, herb-drug interactions, supplement evaluation, and regulation.
• Current Nutritional Trends: It discusses modern trends in nutrition, such as raw diets, home-prepared diets, grain-free diets, and owner perception.
• Digital Resources: A companion website offers video clips showing acupuncture techniques, enhancing the practical application of the text.
• Broad Audience: An essential reference for any veterinary practitioner wishing to use integrative techniques in their practices, as well as veterinary students, academics, and researchers.