A schedule of VOM treatments was recommended and immediately applied.
Boru left the hospital the next day doing much better and was able to return to the show ring within 7 days.
After 2 ½ months and 5 more adjustments, Boru was done with his treatments and the owner continued to campaign her dog for three more years when she chose to retire him while he was still winning.
Discussion
Boru had a clinical expression of one of the most commonly missed disease conditions that we are able to find and treat with the VOM Technology. Most pets that have reads in the caudal cervical area do not show clinical disease. In the author's opinion, it is the most commonly missed disease condition in veterinary medicine.
This subluxation complex gives rise to lower lumbar subluxations and often goes undetected.
In Boru's case it was obviously a clinical problem and also easy to treat as indicated.
The important point here is that this case showed no radiographic evidence and hence a concrete diagnosis that would direct treatment could not be made without the VOM Technology.

Case #3

Bandi, a 7 year-old neutered male Domestic short hair cat, presented with a chronic dermatological problem that covered his back.
Bandi had been chewing the hair off his back and was also creating a secondary pyoderma that was a clinical problem for the last 3 years.
When touched on the back, Bandi would either try to bite you or would respond with a reflexive pattern of biting, licking or head spasms that could be elicited like a reflex every time a stimulus to the skin over the back was made. Just just holding your hand over his back could even fire this reflex. Bandi read from T-10 thru L-5, and as the pulses were made, he did not calm down or get quiet as is the case with most animals.
As the VOM technology was applied out to the 30-day interval, it was kept at that interval for 10 more months before the reading patterns were gone and the disease was cured.
Discussion
Bandi's condition is a common and frustrating one that we see in feline practice.
It is thought to be an infectious problem, a hormonal imbalance, a dietary allergy, an inhalant allergy, a psychogenic disease, or who knows what. Its treatments are also as nebulous as its etiology.
These animals all have reading pattern similar to Bandi's and respond in the same fashion.
Bandi's unique reflex is named "Feline Skin-Spinal Reflex or FSSR" in the VOM Technology for lack of a better term.
This condition seems to be a result of para-esthesia or anesthesia of the dorsal spinal cutaneous branches of the segmental nerves.

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This hyper, hypo, and an-esthesia is held in place by subluxation and reduction of that subluxation reduces, then relieves these disease complexes.
This approach is important in VOM in that it is the exception to the rule that all disease conditions held in place by subluxation will resolve in 5.75 adjustments.
These cases often take up to 12 adjustments to resolve.
The good news is that the client is often so intent on solving these chronic and frustrating disease conditions that they will stay the course of the treatment.

Case #4

Buck, an 11-year old dressage thoroughbred, was presented with some minor bowed tendons in the forelegs and the owner complained that he was reluctant to "change leads" while in the ring.
Buck had seen a manual veterinary chiropractor and had been immediately benefited by manual adjustments to the anterior neck. Unfortunately, he always returned one week after the adjustment was made, with the same complaint.
Upon VOM examination, Buck was found to not only have reading patterns at the atlanto-occipital area, but also at C-4, C-6-7, T-5-6-7, L-2-3, and the left Posterior Superior Iliac Spine (PSIS).
The owner was able to see grossly all the reading patterns as the practitioner discovered them and was also able to see them cleared as Buck was adjusted at all those points and at the first sternabrae.
The owner was convinced that Buck was immediately improved and could not demonstrate gait anomalies in the ring.
One week later he was adjusted again and at that time he still did not have gait problems, and the tendon swellings were down.
Two weeks later, another adjustment, and the legs were almost normal.
Buck was finished up in the VOM approach with a 3-week interval followed by a 4-week interval and at that time he was asymptomatic and did not show any VOM reads.
Discussion
Buck's problem is very common for dressage horses and also for cutting and racehorses.
Caudal cervical subluxation will hold in place a myriad of disease conditions and gait problems. Unfortunately, until the advent of the VOM Diagnostic Technology and the application of the Equine Adjusting Tool (EAT), these subluxations could not be discovered and evaluated manually. Also, these horses may respond clinically to manual adjustment, but care is discontinued as soon as clinical signs are gone.
We have seen that the diagnostic reads persist several adjustments after clinical signs ablate, and it is the extinguishing of these indications of neuronal subluxations that confers healing.