Relieving Joint Pain in Animals

Joint pain in animal can be caused by many factors such as joint trauma, arthritis, a degenerative joint disease or a genetic disorder. This will cause pain when that animal moves. You will find that he/she will walk stiffly and he/she may limp. Thus, you should consult your veterinarian when you find some signs of this pain. But, there are some tips that you can do when you want to help your pet to relief his/her pain temporarily before taking him/her to the veterinarian.

Warm up the stiff joint of your pet with hot-water bottle to ease the discomfort in his joint. This is the correct thing to do if your pet suffers a genetic disorder or arthritis such as hip dysplasia. Additionally, you would better take your pet inside the house and allow him/her to sleep inside during cold weather. This is because cold weather often make the pain worse.

Take your pet to have exercise lightly. You can take your pet when you are doing your exercise such as walking and running. This will strengthen his/her muscles and loosen up the stiff tendons. If you have a dog with dysplasia, you should available a leash to prevent him from running and jumping that will make his/her joint feels worse. You will find that instead of walking and running, you can take your dog to swim. This is an activity that your dog might like.

Do a massage in the area that is in pain. In this case, you can use your fingertips to massage the skin and muscles in the joint area. But, you have to make sure that your pet feels comfort with this condition. Do it for 10-15 minutes.

Feed your pet with diet menu. You will find that the excess of weight will make his joint hurts because there is pressure on the tender of the joint. Make sure that the pet food that you choose has lower percentage of fat. Additionally, you have to make sure that you always feed your pet with food that contains carbohydrates with low fat.

Those are some tips you should consider if you want to relieve animal joint pain. But, if you are in doubt to do those things yourself, you should take him/her to the veterinarian immediately.