Summary: A dog's scapula's hollow shoulder acupressure point is at the back of the dog's shoulders. Learn how acupressure can be used to treat shoulder arthritis in a dog from a registered veterinary technician in this free pet care video.
Dawn Smith has been a traditional Chinese herbal medicine practitioner for six years and a registered veterinary technician over 20 years. Smith has practiced Chinese herbal therapy...read more
"The third primary shoulder point is scapulas hollow or small intestine 10. That is going to be back even a little bit further if you think that the scapula is that big flat bone that is part of your shoulder and on the dog that is this point here. Go back from that point on the shoulder where we started and again you are going to fall into a hole. This one is going to be back quite a bit further and in a muscle crease. Find your spot again hold for one minute, steady pressure, if you are really feeling like you are not finding it go ahead and massage from the point of the shoulder down to the elbow and up through that joint all the way out to the point again and just keep doing that in a circular motion. If you can find the point you want to do that one minute hold in the straight up and down position and that will be the third of your three primary shoulder points, again be sure and do the other side as well as you balance out and help support the leg that is doing all the hard work to take up for what the injured shoulder can't do. So that's your three points for the shoulder."
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