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Acupuncture Treatment of Torticollis in a Foal
2006
Kim, D.H. (Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea), E-mail: dhkim@cnu.ac.kr | Liu, J.Z. (Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea) | Lee, J.Y. (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan) | MacManus, Philip (Glenina Veterinary Clinic, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland) | Jennings, Padraic (Glenina Veterinary Clinic, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland) | Darcy, Karl (Glenina Veterinary Clinic, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland) | Burke, Fiona (Glenina Veterinary Clinic, Galway, Co. Galway, Ireland) | A. Philip (Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea) | Rigers, M. (Teagasc Grange Research Centre, Dunsany, Co. Meath, Ireland)
A 6-month-old thoroughbred filly foal had torticollis and circled towards the right side. A local veterinarian treated her twice using dexamethasone for 1 week but there was little clinical improvement. Needles were inserted into Ting points of both hind limb and one ocular acupoint (shang jiao area from GB01). Injection acupuncture (dexamethasone, twice/week) was used at GV16, GB20, BL10 and LU07, for the neck and head. Acupoint GB34 was added to those points at session 4. In addition, a trigger point in the left neck was injected with 0.2 ml (200 μg of apitoxin) of bee-venom diluted with 1 ml of 2% lidocaine from session 1 to session 3.
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