Think about fitness and condition when adding pain relief medication to your care plan

Think about fitness and condition when adding pain relief medication to your care plan. We often think, wow, what a great improvement and we feel so happy to see our loved ones running and playing again, “like they USED to”.

✅️ 60 minutes is the most pain relieving amount of time to walk a dog! That statement has a butt load of caveates so don’t race to that amount and the breed might not allow it.

Point is, when choosing your pain strategy, you may have pain relief medications involved. If you do, don’t forget they have probably had a long period of deconditioning, so lost muscle and fitness.

When they feel better, they need time to build up, so rebuild slowly and controlled and even better, get a professional to help you with the rebuild and conditioning program. This will increase their resiliance and make them less likely to injure themselves due to doing too much when they are just not ready.

Contact us if you would like to discuss a return to play strategy for your loved one.

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