{"id":674,"date":"2021-04-06T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:28:18","slug":"veterinary-medical-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/veterinary-medical-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinary Medical Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Veterinary Medical Manipulation (VMM)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Jennifer Tucci, DVM<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>What is VMM?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Veterinary Medical Manipulation (VMM) is a manual therapy that uses motion palpation to find joint restrictions and alleviates them using quick and controlled joint adjustments.\u00a0 Correcting these joint restrictions restores normal range of motion, relaxes the muscles and relieves pain of a restricted joint.\u00a0 This improves circulation, neurologic function, and immune system performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Is VMM a chiropractic adjustment?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>VMM is essentially chiropractic care for your pets.\u00a0 The reason it cannot be called as such is because a specially-trained veterinarian, rather than a chiropractor, is the one performing the adjustment.\u00a0 \u00a0When chiropractic techniques are\u00a0 applied to animals, it is correctly called VMM.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Who should have VMM?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Pets with arthritis or other orthopedic disease<\/li>\n<li>Pets with neurologic disease, prone to weakness or stumbling<\/li>\n<li>Pets with back, neck, leg or jaw pain<\/li>\n<li>Canine athletes, working dogs, and show dogs benefit from improvements in posture and agility<\/li>\n<li>Any pet!\u00a0 To maintain health and fitness, VMM catches and treats abnormalities before they become injuries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterinary Medical Manipulation (VMM) by Jennifer Tucci, DVM What is VMM? Veterinary Medical Manipulation (VMM) is a manual therapy that uses motion palpation to find joint restrictions and alleviates them using quick and controlled joint adjustments.\u00a0 Correcting these joint restrictions restores normal range of motion, relaxes the muscles and relieves pain of a restricted joint.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therehabvets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}