Dog Acupressure for Shoulder Arthritis: Front Shoulder Seam

Video Transcript

"There are three primary points for treating shoulder arthritis. We're going to start with the most easy to find. None of the shoulder points are particularly easy, so you may end up just doing massage in this particular case. But what we're going to start with is shoulder seam, and that is the front of the shoulder, large intestine 15. Find the pointiest point of the shoulder. Move down and a little bit back, and you're going to fall into a space between the muscle, tendon, and the bone, and you're going to put straight up and down pressure in that area. Again, this can be a really hard one to find, especially in a reasonably muscled dog, and Cocoa's going to lie down for this particular session. You can massage the area, as well. It's very easy just to rub that whole area, and you'll pick up the next two points that I'm going to talk about, as well. But if you can find that particular point, that's a really, really good one. With shoulder injury, you quite often have lameness on one leg. The other leg then gets worked really hard, and it tends to be painful, because it's doing the work of both front legs, or more of the work of both front legs. In that case, you also want to do the other side, as well, so do both shoulder points."