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How I Treat… Lower Back Pain In Cats
E. Beltrán
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Diagnosis of lumbar pain is generally the result of a veterinarian’s subjective evaluation of the cat’s behavior on either direct observation of the posture/gait and/or direct palpation to the affected area. The most important and sometimes the most difficult part is identifying the aetiology and the mechanisms of the pain, so treatment and prognosis can be directed to a specific cause. However, in some cases this is not achieved or the cause is not found even when advanced imaging (CT/MRI) and cerebrospinal fluid analysis are perfomed. The treatment should ideally be directed to the specific underlying cause (meningitis, discospondilitis, myositis, neoplasia) however some particular treatment could be applied on the cases where the cause is not found.
On the other hand, abnormal findings found on imaging studies [from radiogrpahs to advanced imaging (CT/MRI)] should be creafully interpreted as sometimes those findings might be overinterpreted or underinterpreted and therefore this might be leading to innapropiate medical/surgical treatment. ...
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