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A.
What is VOM™?
Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation is a healing
technology that locates areas of the animal’s nervous system that have fallen
out of communication, and re-establishes neuronal communication and thus induces
healing.
VOM is
singularly the most simple, effective and safe healing modality in veterinary
care to date.
B.
Scope of VOM in the Treatment of Disease and Prevention
VOM
can be used to accurately detect, predict, treat and prevent disease. Its
ability to restore neurologic function to the diseased organ and allow healing
to ensue under the direction of the animal itself. The nature of the
technique allows for detection of disease before clinical symptoms appear and
allows treatment at that time.
Early
detection and treatment beget disease prediction and prevention. The disease
symptom recognition model of diagnosis is late in the chain of events.
Early diagnosis and treatment modalities make sense when trying to prevent
disease states.
C.
How Does VOM Work?
Many
conditions are results of a chronic problem. At each vertebral level of the
spine are nerves and vessels which send and receive messages and blood. A
spinal subluxation, a misalignment along the spinal column, can have a very
direct effect on the nerves and vessels. It can constrict the flow of
information, restrict the flow of blood, and cause swelling in the area.
Over time, lack of proper nerve input can affect the local functioning of the
tissues and even the internal organs. Reduced blood flow, which means lack
of food, will eventually affect the tissues and organs. Additionally,
since the cells of all body parts produce waste, the subluxation can also stop
efficient waste removal. There can be edema and other by toxic products
which build up. As time marches on and the body is forced to cope with
these waste materials, the symptoms of disease progress and chemical changes
occur. These chemical changes can further impact organ and tissue function
and even change the tissues in an area such as when long term subluxations lead to proliferation of the bony changes often called arthritis.
D.
Is Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation Chiropractic Care?
No!
VOM exists in between veterinary medicine and
chiropractic care. It has similarities to some of the chiropractic modalities
and functions by restoring function by reducing “subluxations”. But
instead, VOM uses a hand-held device that is used in a popular human
chiropractic technique called “Activator Method” but it is not to be
confused with that technique. The differences between VOM and Chiropractic care
are significant and distinct. VOM
exists in a gray area between both professions (Veterinary and Chiropractic) and
benefits from the positive aspects of both, a hybrid, and thus more effective
than either by itslef. Using
the evaluative techiniques of VOM versus manual chiropractic manipulation,
between 40 and 60% more subluxations are identified and treated.
VOM thus provides more treatment and better results than chiropractics.
E.
History, Origination and Development
of VOM
VOM was developed by Wm. L. Inman BS, BS,
DVM, CVCP,
in Seattle WA, in Dr. Inman’s clinical practice from July of 1982 to date.
Before Dr. Inman began using these non-invasive techniques he was an
accomplished veterinary surgeon and still consults in veterinary surgery. His vacillation to VOM from surgery reflects his frustration in
ineffective surgical solutions to common veterinary medical problems.
F.
Why is VOM so Accurate?
Because VOM finds and reduces all neuronal subluxations. All neuronal subluxations have a
pathological reflex demonstrably associated with them.
A pathological reflex is like a knee jerk response. It is either there
or it is not. It is an objective means to determine the presence of and reduce neuronal subluxation. The
pathological read is not “partially there”, “kinda there”, or “almost
there” adding a factor of subjectivity to interpretation. VOM is a
precise
objective science.
G.
Chiropractic “Listings” vs. VOM™
“Pathological Reads”
All chiropractic techniques (veterinary and human)
rely on the chiropractic “listing” to determine the presence of a
subluxation. Through manual palpation a misplaced bone prominence or a taught and
tender muscle may be discovered by a competent veterinary chiropractor whose
patient is cooperative and relaxed.
This is a
listing, an anatomical subluxation sign, and is almost always indicative of a
neuronal subluxation syndrome.
Unfortunately only 40% of all neuronal subluxations
produce palpable anatomical subluxation signs. This means over half of an
animal’s subluxations will be overlooked if anatomical listings are used as a
means to discover them. The
good news is that all neuronal
subluxations produce “pathological reads”, and all these reads are obvious
and easy to discover and reduce. The
goal of an adjustment in an animal is reducing all the vertebral subluxations.
Subluxation reduction based on anatomical listings will get
approximately half of the total neurological subluxations presentl.
Subluxation reduction based on pathological reads will get them all, and
will verify they have been reduced.
H.
How it Works
All chiropractic
modalities have one thing in common in that they all reduce the vertebral
subluxation complex by providing motion or force to the fixated or subluxated
joint.
Spinal or Injury = Neuronal Subluxation Syndrome = Pathological Read
Neuronal subluxation + Motion
(force) = Subluxation Reduced
So if you put motion into a joint that is associated
with a neuronal subluxation sign, (a pathological read), you reduce the
subluxation. It is that simple. All
the various types of chiropractic techniques have this motion or force into the
subluxated joint in common. VOM delivers its
force with a device called a spinal accelerometer.
I.
What Does the Device Do to My Pet?
It reduces the subluxations present in the joints of
your pet. It cannot create a subluxation in your pet. It can only flip the
neuronal switches that are turned off, on. It cannot flip a switch off.
It provides very accurate and precise motion to specific areas of the
pet’s spine and if a subluxation is present it can detect and reduce it
quickly and without pain or injury. It can confirm that the neuronal subluxation
is reduced even if it is not associated with an anatomical listing.
J.
Can the Device and VOM Harm My Pet?
No No No!!!
The beauty of the VOM Technology is that it provides
the exact amount of force to the subluxated joint needed to reduce the
subluxation with out having to induce a lot of motion.
It is motion that can potentially injure the animal; torsion, twisting,
mass movement etc. inherent in manual adjusting techniques.
The device trades motion for speed to maintain the force needed to
reduce the subluxation through Newton’s Second Law of Motion (FORCE=MASS X
ACCELERATION).
K.
Why Not Just Use Your Hands Like Other Veterinary Chiropractors?
Because our hands are too slow. The fastest an
excellent veterinary chiropractor can move a joint under optimum conditions and
patient cooperation is 80 milliseconds.
The animal’s
natural reflexive resistance to adjustment is 20 milliseconds or 4 times faster.
This demonstrates the
need for patient relaxation and cooperation and is the reason that excellent
technique is imperative for success using manual adjusting.
Conversely the device fires at a rate of 2-4 milliseconds which 5-10
times faster than the animals ability to resist adjustment. The patient is
always adjusted, every time, all the time, whether they want to or not, in any
position, attitude or mood. In
my experience only 50% of domestic animals will completely cooperate with manual
chiropractic adjustments. All
of them can be adjusted using the VOM Technology.
L.
Why VOM is so Successful
Because it locates all the neuronal subluxations
present in the animal regardless of whether clinical listings are present and
reduces them and confirms their reduction. Inherent
in the VOM Technology is a built-in rescheduling protocol that inserts the
patient on a self-regulating readjustment interval.
M.
Is VOM Effective On Horses?
You bet! All the reads that we see in the dog and the
cat are magnified in the horse. Areas usually devoid of subluxations in the
shoulder areas of dogs and cats are hot spots in the equine.
N.
What Can VOM Treat?
Routinely treated
are conditions such as:
1.
Acute and non-acute lameness
2.
Progressive lameness
3.
Hip Dysplasia-like syndromes
4.
IV disc disease
5.
Progressive myelopathies, (down in the rears dogs)
6.
Urinary and fecal incontinence
7.
Unilateral lameness
8.
Wobbler’s Disease
9.
Diseases of the knee
10.
Esophageal disease
11.
Increased or decreased GI mobility disease
12.
Digestive disorders
13.
Performance problems
14.
Behavioral problems
15.
Agility dysfunction
16.
Endocrine disease
17.
Many more
O.
What Will Happen to My Pet?
1.Dr. St. Clair will do an “evaluative pass”
which entails her running the device down the pet’s spine, search for
pathological reads indicative of subluxations. The subluxations found will be recorded.
2. If significant
subluxations are found and they correspond to the clinical disease presented,
then a course of VOM treatment will be recommended.
3. An estimate may
be generated and other procedures may be recommended such as blood work, x-ray,
and other diagnostic tests.
4. A second VOM
pass will be made (therapeutic pass) and the changes to the reading pattern will
be noted. Your pet may be already showing signs of improvement.
5. A third VOM
pass will usually be made, (second therapeutic pass) and that data evaluated.
Most if not all of the reads may be reduced at this point.
6. An appointment
to return for readjustment will be made and post-adjustment
instructions will be given as to activity and potential discomfort that evening.
7. Some
supplements may be dispensed depending on the nature of the
case.
8. A series of 3-5
readjustments may be needed to reach a point where no reads are found in which
case the subluxation pattern is “cured”.
9. Maintenance
checks may be recommended every 2-4 months to watch for reoccurrence.
P.
What Should
I Expect as Results from VOM Treatments
You may see a response
while your pet is on the examination table. It can be that fast. An experienced
VOM practitioner may have treated cases who haven’t walked for weeks, given up for dead,
and, with one adjustment thrust and the pet stands and walks about.
The average case will see some sort of positive
response within the first week and commonly the entering clinical complaint will
be gone within the first three adjustments giving the owner the false security
that the case is completed. Cases
that show no response within one month may not resolve towards a satisfactory
solution. Cases that have had paralysis or lack of function for years or months
may not respond well to VOM, however, one does not know until you try.
Q.
Why do I Have to Come Back?
The body
will have gotten used to functioning in a state of out of communication and the nervous system
will have thrown up a nerve
adaptation that allows some marginal level of function. The body develops a
pseudo-memory of how it has “adapted”.
When the body is
re-introduced to functioning correctly, that system wins out for a stretch of
time until the nagging pseudo-memory of the neuronal adaptation re-expresses
itself on the body again and the body slips “out of adjustment”.
Systematic readjustment on a succinct schedule then finally wins out
over the pseudo-adaptive memory and further adjustments are not necessary.
R.
Treatment Failures
Treatment failures
fall into two categories:
1.
Neurological damage is extensive, significant and permanent (too much
serious injury for too long)
2.
VOM treatment schedule not kept (most common cause of VOM failure and
easiest to prevent)
S.
Where Can I Get More Information
on VOM?
Wm.
L. Inman BS, DVM, CVCP
drbill42@comcast.net
International
Assoc. of Veterinary Chiropractitioners 888-935-4866
VOM/VNA
Website: www.vomtech.com
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