We've been taking our family pets (dogs and cats) to Dr. Lowell for 20 years. He is very well educated, fully certified, and has an amazing "bedside manner" with all our pets. I watched him take a semi-feral cat in his arms and immediately she was at ease as he did some chiropractic maneuvers. You could see the relief from pain on her face. Now when I take her in for a treatment, she tends to sleep through most of it, which is a credit to how much trust he has built. I think she may trust him now more than me!
Most of the time he does acupuncture and glucosamine injections and his chiropractic therapy. When I get her home our current cat runs around and acts like a kitten for days. This is extremely important with cold weather here, because she is determined to be an outside kitty during the day. Please don't judge me. She adopted me, we have an understanding.
He has been very good at diagnosing and one day I saw him save our elderly lab's life. This dog was in very bad shape, very near end of life, but he bought her a few more weeks and in the end her brother and her passed at about the same time, which was a comfort for both of them as lifelong partners. The take away point is that often we take our animals to Dr. Dave when there are already in serious pain and the fact that he can help them is amazing. In most cases this is more than palliative, they can have months and years ahead that are relatively pain-free, for the most part.
I had cat with a broken lower spine/pelvic region--an injury that had happened years before and repaired itself, but in old age flared up. She was given a new lease on life for over a year from the placement of a gold bead. He doesn't place beads for all animals, sometimes this therapy is not called for, and sometimes this treatment is not visibly effective. But in my observation he takes the time to do ex-rays and is extremely careful to get the placement as accurate as possible.
I'm reading Cathy's post, and it is concerning, but we don't have enough documentation to make a good conclusion.
As a scientist and someone who considers our pets members of the family, I would say our experiences with Dr. Dave have been extremely good for our animals and I have no reservation in recommending him. read more