Treating Wobblers--Dr. Tim Crowe

Meet the Great Dane called Ranie. She's 15 months old, female, spayed, and she has cervical malformation and myelopathy. She was literally staggering around, able to walk but only with extreme difficulty. Dr. Tim Crowe put the Assisi loop on her neck and after just 10 minutes he began to see a difference. After 20 minutes of application he noticed definite improved coordination. She was able to rise on her own and her gait improved. Right there, within 10-20 minutes, you see her gait change. Her pain scale was thought to be about a two prior to the use of the loop, and ten minutes afterwards it was zero.

I've never seen anything like this before. I've never seen a patient with cervical malformation improve so remarkably like that. And there was no surgery involved. In fact, this was why I was seeing her. She may have had a compression lesion on her spinal cord caused by this malformed vertebral segment in her neck and we were considering surgery. Now with the Assisi Loop, we weren't sure if she needed it.

We sent the Assisi loop home with her owner and instructed her to use it as much as possible - just slip it around the dog's neck whenever she could for up to 15 minutes at a time. After two weeks we were noticing a significant difference in her gait. She was running around with the other dog and four months after the initial application you can't tell her from her other playmate Great Dane.