The Camel
Like chiropractic, chirovetpractic began over 90 years ago.
Unlike chiropractic, chirovetpractic diagnostic, and treatment
techniques are totally different because of the differences in the skeletal
biomechanics of the biped, and the quadruped.
I have only worked on one camel. Newt the camel was a year and a half
old. He was running with a herd of llamas. The owner decided to neuter
Newt because she did not want him cross breeding with the llamas. Unfortunately,
Newt had an adverse drug reaction to the general anesthetic that was
administered. He did not totally recover from the drugs for about 6
weeks. In the interim he had fallen several times, dislocating his sacrum
and a couple of cervical (neck) verterbra.
The owner was getting ready to have Newt put to sleep, because they
had to force him to stand, which he didn't do for very long. When I
arrived Newt was laying down with his head bent around beside his left
shoulder. We had to pull his head around, and force him to rise. He
screamed, and spit green bile until we had him standing with his head
and neck straight. The next day after I had realigned his neck and his
sacrum, he was getting up on his own and eating. He is now Newt the
healthy, happy camel.
I would have to work on 50 to 100 camels to know all of the symptoms
that they get with subluxations. My SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess)
would be that their symptoms would be similar to those of the horse.
See: <EQUINE SYMPTOMS>
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