03/18/2025
It’s even good for penguins 🐧 ☯️
A colleague has a new patient because she saw this article about senior penguins getting acupuncture! 👍🏻
I also treat animals as well as people ☺️ 🐕 🐈⬛
“The geriatric penguins, who are mostly in their 30s, receive close monitoring for ailments such as cataracts and arthritis. They are fed fish that have been injected with extra water to promote kidney health, and they get treatments such as eye drops and physical therapy. Some even get acupuncture.
Dr. Melissa Joblon, the aquarium’s director of animal health, said the acupuncture treatments, which are rare, are for penguins with arthritis in their spines, which causes them to stiffen and walk less.
The penguins are placed on a small table in a room with the lights turned down. The acupuncturist, who also does work on humans, places the needles on the penguin’s backs, hips and sometimes on the tops of their heads. “Some of them just go right to sleep with that,” Dr. Joblon said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/science/penguin-retirement-home-aquarium.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHc51-VaVZYkSJErQjSRihw6aNCTABrHdQi0ILGQdviGQ5DCwvQm0kW1XUA_aem_dMCa7Nmm2coommppJlpE7w
Six African Penguins at the New England Aquarium in Boston have made a new home on an island designed to address the aches and pains of aging.
