Point Clare Chiropractic
www.pointclarechiropractic.com.au
​
PH: 02 4322 0199
  • Home
  • Services
  • What is Chiropractic?
  • The Biophysics Difference
  • About Dr Holland
  • Bookings & Contact
  • Hot Topics Blog

Cincinnati Zoo's tiger cub is seeing chiropractor

2/27/2017

0 Comments

 
I saw this incredible story and had to share it.

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden's trio of two-week-old Malayan tiger cubs is doing well.

“They’re fed by nursery staff six times a day and have already graduated from two to three ounces per feeding,” Mike Dulaney, the zoo's curator of mammals and the vice coordinator of the Malayan Tiger Species Survival Plan (SSP), said in a news release. “Before they open their eyes, they usually just eat and sleep. Now that they can see where they’re going, they will start to become more active.”

But one of the cubs needed a little help from an unexpected source: A local chiropractor. Cub No. 1, as it has been deemed until its gender is known and a name has been given, was having trouble holding its head up.

“It was obvious to me that something wasn’t right," Dawn Strasser, a 35-year veteran in the zoo’s nursery, said in the release. “The cub’s neck appeared to be stuck at an odd angle. Massaging the neck muscles helped with the stiffness, but the cub was increasingly lethargic and not suckling well.”

Strasser brought in Dr. Mark Sperbeck, a chiropractor who works on both humans and animals. He determined that the cub’s top cervical bone (C1), through which 95 percent of the body's nerve impulses travel, was out of alignment.
​
After three adjustments, the cub's neck and spine are back in place. It's eating well and has actually gotten a little bigger than its littermates.
 

Picture
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    About

    Blog by Dr Kieron Holland and Point Clare Chiropractic.

    Archives

    August 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    November 2018
    February 2018
    October 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Location

Contact Us 

02 4322 0199