How can I prevent or minimize pain in my pet, and what are some natural or alternative pain management options?

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Amy Pike · Answer

How can you prevent or minimize pain in your pet and what are some of the natural or alternative pain medication options? So the biggest thing with pain in a pet is to make sure that they're not obese. So keeping them on a nice lean body condition score is really ideal. So that's first and foremost and then making sure that you don't over or under exercise them because either way can actually be really bad. So if they do get pain, there are a lot of natural and alternative options to include acupuncture, laser therapy, electromagnetic field, you know, devices that actually can help with pain. But there's also supplements like glucosamine and chondroitin, collagen, some of the other ones that we use are fish oil, green-lipped muscle. So there's a lot of natural type stuff out there and actually CBD can help. So this is one area where I do recommend CBD and that is as an adjunct for pain control. So yeah, just make sure that you keep them in a nice lean body condition, lots of good controlled exercise, nothing too much, nothing too little. And if they do get pain, talk to your veterinarian about some options.

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