HELLO MY NAME IS KELLY THOMPSON, DC

AND I AM AVAILABLE TO HELP YOUR COMPANION

THE 35 YEAR EVOLUTION OF A UNIQUE AND PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCING NMR-T OR NEUROMYOFASCIAL RELEASE THERAPY

Neuromyofascial Release Therapy

Pet owners often comment to me, "your technique seems nothing like what I’ve experienced at my Chiropractor." This is often confusing to owners who are long time Chiropractic patients themselves. I guess they were expecting something more rough or dramatic. Dogs and cats are extremely flexible in the spine, articulations, and other connective tissue elements as evidenced by the fact that they are able to twist around and chew on their behinds. I have yet to see a human perform such a maneuver and this explains how corrections can be made gently, painlessly, and non-invasively.

Neuromyofascial Release Therapy or NMR-T is the name I have given this Diagnostic and Treatment Protocol that describes, detects, and resolves the dysfunctional nexus between codependent functional elements that accrue and degrade, over time, optimal performance and quality of life. I know that's a mouthful, (continue reading)

The Journey of Discovery

After completing my undergraduate requirements at UC Davis, I matriculated at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and subsequently graduated summa cum laude in the spring of 1981. Since 1983 I have treated animal patients in over 50 Veterinary Clinics and Hospitals around the San Francisco Bay Area and in Southern California.

For those who are interested in knowing how a chiropractor for humans ended up helping animals full time with a self taught and self discovered, proprietary technology, I provide the following for your edification. Inasmuch as I generally don't talk about myself in my practice, I also write this to answer the frequently asked questions that I regularly entertain from pet owners who's companions are under my care.

Over the years I have treated everything from Horses, Llamas, Dogs, Cats, to Rabbits, Chinchillas and even Guinea Pigs. Pet owners seeking my help with their companions invariably get around to asking if I attended some specialized training to explain the results I achieve (see before & after Videos). The simple answer is, (continue reading)

Death by a Thousand cuts

What you and your dog don't know

This idiom expresses the concept of a lot of small bad things happening, none of which is fatal, but which add over time to a slow and painful demise. My 35 years of observations as a Chiropractor who treats animals can be summed up this way: It is the un-addressed, untreated, and unresolved cumulative effects of repeated macro and micro trauma to your pet's spine, extremities, and soft tissue that silently and for the most part painlessly leads to the eventual unhappy and painful conclusion that I so commonly witness. Suddenly they're coming up lame, (continue reading)

Working With Veterinarians

As a Chiropractor, why you should

I ply my craft and apply my skill at Veterinary Clinics and Hospitals primarily around the San Francisco Bay Area. I realize that I am perhaps in the minority, making enemies of those calling themselves Animal Chiropractors who want to treat animals autonomously and away from a Veterinary environment. However consider the following as an admonition to Chiropractors, who because of ideology, insist on what they call, "treating off of the reservation." First there are Regulations, specifically: § 2038. Musculoskeletal Manipulation 16 CA ADC § 2038. For Chiropractors in California, (continue reading)

Preventing Neck Injuries in Dogs

Recovering from Neck Injuries

As a Chiropractor in the Veterinary world, the top three reasons pet owners bring their animal companions to me are: neck/back pain, hind end weakness/wobbliness, and limping/lameness issues. A common problem that I treat on my daily rounds to Veterinary clinics and hospitals is “Lower Cervical Instability.” The lower cervical spine is injured and unstable, putting downward pressure on the back of the spinal cord. Dogs will commonly present with mild to severe neck pain, low head carriage, sometimes violent neck spasms (in certain breeds like Beagles and Frenchies), and limited range of cervical motion. (continue reading)

Is your Dog Developing IVDD?

Are there warning signs?

How would you know if your pet were developing spinal problems? In 35 years of practice as a Chiropractor who treats animals only a handful of pet owners could answer this question. Yet hardly a day goes by in my rounds to Veterinary clinics and hospitals that I don’t witness late stage spinal problems in their most severe expression. Characteristically there are two classic presentations, and despite pet owner’s insistence that their companion’s desperate condition came on suddenly and without warning, there are always warning signs if one observes with educated eyes. (continue reading)

Before considering Laser Treatments for your Dog

New technology vastly superior to Cold Lasers

A brief history of therapeutic lasers is in order to give you a better understanding of the technology. Years ago Infrared Lasers found their way into the fields of physical medicine, physical therapy, and chiropractic. To understand this newer light therapy technology that I utilize called PetLight®, let me first describe the original light therapy modality. Infrared laser is also called Cold Laser because it produces no or minimal heat. Technically described as Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) to differentiate it from other more powerful laser applications used in the health care fields, this form of therapy had its origin in a serendipitous discovery by Hungarian professor and physician Dr. Endre Mester in 1969. At the time Dr. Mester was investigating the use of high power lasers to destroy cancerous tumors. In his early experiments he implanted tumor cells beneath the skin of laboratory rats and then “zapped” the tumor cells with his custom ruby (red light) laser. (continue reading)

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Why I started making Videos

Some time back as I finished up with a difficult case, involving a pup with a painful and incapacitating neck injury, the client thanked me profusely for helping his companion. I told him that he was very welcome as I looked into the lobby for my next client. As he turned to go, he stopped short, turned around and exclaiming that others need to see what I had done for his dog. I gave him my usual response saying… “ tell your friends.” That didn’t seem to satisfy him and by the look on his face it was obvious that he wasn’t finished. He went on to say that I should capture my treatment results on video and start a youtube channel and a website as well. My question to him in response was, well….why? I've never advertised, I don’t have a website, and I’m extremely busy by word of mouth and people can hear about my results on Yelp. He then explained something that caused me a shift in my thinking. He continued, “its not for you it’s for others like me.” I looked at him, I suppose, like your dog looks at you when they don’t understand what you just told them. He went on to explain that had a neighbor not given him a referral, he probably would have had to endure the heartbreak of having to put his companion down to relieve his suffering. Nothing else was working and that for every one you help, Kelly, there are probably untold thousands who are put to sleep for want of what you have the ability to do for them. Trying to end the conversation and move on to my next client, I responded that I understood what he was saying but really what could I realistically do to help those thousands. He concluded by saying that they are being put down for lack of knowledge, not knowing that a workable technology exists, because people like you don’t make it known and that knowing this would empower people to search for and demand similar help in whatever area area or region they reside.

That is what prompted me to start taking before and after videos on my iphone, start a website and a youtube channel. I’m no videographer but I think the message gets across. I just have to remember to pull out my iPhone on the first visit with each new case. Just showing the after video doesn’t really show how bad they were when I started the case and saying, “I swear you should have seen how bad they were in the beginning just doesn’t cut it!” Also there a lot of cases I see where someone's companion is having pain such that they cry out periodically or they are not able to jump up on the couch or into the car any longer. I’m certainly not going to ask the pet owners to make there companion cry out or demonstrate their companions inability to jump up so I can catch it on video. Consequently you will only see videos that show obvious effects of an animals malady. Below will start my many videos of animals with severe maladies that I have helped.

This idiom expresses the concept of a lot of small bad things happening, none of which is fatal, but which add over time to a slow and painful demise. My 35 years of observations as a Chiropractor who treats animals can be summed up this way: It is the un-addressed, untreated, and unresolved cumulative effects of repeated macro and micro trauma to your pet's spine, extremities, and soft tissue that silently and for the most part painlessly leads to the eventual unhappy and painful conclusion that I so commonly witness. Suddenly they're coming up lame,

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