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While various types of massages have been useful for a broad variety of tension related conditions, both physically and emotionally in people, only in recent years have enhancing numbers of both veterinary technicians, veterinarians, and human massage therapists become interested in applying various types of massage to our companion animals, who certainly suffer from a number of physically and emotionally stressful diseases.
While excessive stimulation of what is known as the sympathetic nervous system is involved with a host of ill effects on the body, various massage techniques, as well as modalities like Tellington Touch may result in a stimulation of the parasympathetic vagal nervous system, resulting in reduction of tension and pain in a variety of conditions where excessive sympathetic nervous activity is involved including various hormonal and chronic digestive tract disorders.
Some of the various disorders where massage can be tried include animals with chronic back or disc disease/spasm; in helping unwind clients for restraint, as well as potentially even decreasing food intake and thus possibly help decrease the growing epidemic of obesity in veterinary medicine. because such clients feel better, they are also likely to become much more active, also helping with weight issues. because we know the benefits of massage on human infants and survival, early massage of young kittens or puppies undergoing a lot of emotional or physical tension also may help decrease mortality. This is certainly an area of veterinary medicine that I hope continues to grow as part of the various holistic supportive treatments, along with proper conventional care in enhancing treatment efficacy and survival of a host of conditions.
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