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Article: A world of hurt: all about canine pain and pain management.(TOUR OF THE DOG)
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- Whole Dog Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Pain may be the most enigmatic of all the disease symptoms of man or beast. It is a sensation we all have experienced at one time or another and in varying degrees. But, few of us can explain adequately how a particular pain feels, fewer still can give a reasonable explanation for why pain occurs; and despite all the recent scientific research that has gone into pain, we still have a minimal understanding for how it occurs--or truthfully, for how to consistently prevent or alleviate it.
Now, couple all this with the fact that we are dealing with pain in an animal who can't talk to us, who can't tell us where or when or how it hurts, and we have further compounded ...