Animal Chiropractic Care at Path of Life Chiropractic, 25 Merritt Parkway #4, Nashua, NH (2026)

04/29/2026

Kirby (Kirbster) is a 15-year-old retired service dog who is living his best life, and I'm helping him to do that by helping his system to move better and adapt better.

The unique scope of practice of an animal chiropractor is location, analysis, and adjustment for vertebral and extremity subluxation in the quadruped spine and neurostructure. That's a whole lot of words for.....

Specific and gentle adjustments make life a better place!

part three: gait observation AFTER his adjustment!!!!

Funny story about one of Kirby's earlier adjustments, at my office: We noticed very quickly that Kirby moved with more fluidity and s***k after he got adjusted. Most of the time he walks around without a leash because he is a well trained 15 year old service dog.... Well, one day after his adjustment, we were out in front of my office and I said to Elaine, maybe we should put a leash on him? Just because people tend to fly through my parking lot. (Ugh. Fortunately, nobody was that day....)

Elaine said no, he won't go far.

Kirby proceeded to run across the street to the wide open green lawn of The Cat Doctor and prance around like he owned the place. I literally had to run and chase him to collect him, laughing the whole way. 🤣

(yes, we have been much more cautious since!)

This is one of the outcomes I always look for and the dogs who come in to see me - increased "s***k."

If that's something you think your dog might want, drop me a line. Let's set up an appointment.

04/29/2026

Kirby (Kirbster) is a 15-year-old retired service dog who is living his best life, and I'm helping him to do that by helping his system to move better and adapt better.

The unique scope of practice of an animal chiropractor is location, analysis, and adjustment for vertebral and extremity subluxation in the quadruped spine and neurostructure. That's a whole lot of words for.....

Specific and gentle adjustments make life a better place!

part two: photos during Kirby's adjustment

04/29/2026

Kirby (Kirbster) is a 15-year-old retired service dog who is living his best life, and I'm helping him to do that by helping his system to move better and adapt better.

The unique scope of practice of an animal chiropractor is location, analysis, and adjustment for vertebral and extremity subluxation in the quadruped spine and neurostructure. That's a whole lot of words for.....

Specific and gentle adjustments make life a better place!

part one: gait observation before his adjustment

04/29/2026

Come be a "fly on the wall" for Theodore's adjustment, part 5 of 5: Results!

Theodore is a service dog for a Marine vet, clearly a very important job. My intention is to make HIS job easier - because when you don't feel great, everything is harder. Since he has started with Animal Chiropractic care, Theo sleeps better, his movement and endurance have improved, and his people report he is less "grumpy," and less reactive to grooming (which can be a sign of pain/dysfunction).

Things to pay attention to in this series of videos:

(1) The adjustment process is safe and gentle. Theo is a participant at all times. There is nothing forceful or startling to him.
(2) Everything we do, we have a pattern: assess, deliver adjustment, re-check. This pattern is deployed from his toes through his nose, literally! We want to focus on outcomes and methodical observation is the only way to gage that.
(3) Specific Chiropractic care for animals is distinct from veterinary orthopedic manipulation: Chiropractors are looking for quality of movement, symmetry, balance, integration, coordination, which is different from the purpose of VOM (which is does it move or not, is it pathological)
(4) Notice how much s***kier Theodore gets though the process of his adjustment!

This was long, so I clipped it out to five videos. A systematic, thorough, outcomes-focused Chiropractic adjustment on a dog or cat usually takes about 15-20 minutes, mostly because I prefer to do little things to keep the dog (or cat) happy and relaxed for the process.

Part 1 of 5: intro

04/29/2026

Come be a "fly on the wall" for Theodore's adjustment, part 4 of 5!

Theodore is a service dog for a Marine vet, clearly a very important job. My intention is to make HIS job easier - because when you don't feel great, everything is harder. Since he has started with Animal Chiropractic care, Theo sleeps better, his movement and endurance have improved, and his people report he is less "grumpy," and less reactive to grooming (which can be a sign of pain/dysfunction).

Things to pay attention to in this series of videos:

(1) The adjustment process is safe and gentle. Theo is a participant at all times. There is nothing forceful or startling to him.
(2) Everything we do, we have a pattern: assess, deliver adjustment, re-check. This pattern is deployed from his toes through his nose, literally! We want to focus on outcomes and methodical observation is the only way to gage that.
(3) Specific Chiropractic care for animals is distinct from veterinary orthopedic manipulation: Chiropractors are looking for quality of movement, symmetry, balance, integration, coordination, which is different from the purpose of VOM (which is does it move or not, is it pathological)
(4) Notice how much s***kier Theodore gets though the process of his adjustment!

This was long, so I clipped it out to five videos. A systematic, thorough, outcomes-focused Chiropractic adjustment on a dog or cat usually takes about 15-20 minutes, mostly because I prefer to do little things to keep the dog (or cat) happy and relaxed for the process.

Part 1 of 5: intro

04/29/2026

Come be a "fly on the wall" for Theodore's adjustment, part 2 of 5!

Theodore is a service dog for a Marine vet, clearly a very important job. My intention is to make HIS job easier - because when you don't feel great, everything is harder. Since he has started with Animal Chiropractic care, Theo sleeps better, his movement and endurance have improved, and his people report he is less "grumpy," and less reactive to grooming (which can be a sign of pain/dysfunction).

Things to pay attention to in this series of videos:

(1) The adjustment process is safe and gentle. Theo is a participant at all times. There is nothing forceful or startling to him.
(2) Everything we do, we have a pattern: assess, deliver adjustment, re-check. This pattern is deployed from his toes through his nose, literally! We want to focus on outcomes and methodical observation is the only way to gage that.
(3) Specific Chiropractic care for animals is distinct from veterinary orthopedic manipulation: Chiropractors are looking for quality of movement, symmetry, balance, integration, coordination, which is different from the purpose of VOM (which is does it move or not, is it pathological)
(4) Notice how much s***kier Theodore gets though the process of his adjustment!

This was long, so I clipped it out to five videos. A systematic, thorough, outcomes-focused Chiropractic adjustment on a dog or cat usually takes about 15-20 minutes, mostly because I prefer to do little things to keep the dog (or cat) happy and relaxed for the process.

Part 2 of 5

04/29/2026

Come be a "fly on the wall" for Theodore's adjustment, part 3 of 5!

Theodore is a service dog for a Marine vet, clearly a very important job. My intention is to make HIS job easier - because when you don't feel great, everything is harder. Since he has started with Animal Chiropractic care, Theo sleeps better, his movement and endurance have improved, and his people report he is less "grumpy," and less reactive to grooming (which can be a sign of pain/dysfunction).

Things to pay attention to in this series of videos:

(1) The adjustment process is safe and gentle. Theo is a participant at all times. There is nothing forceful or startling to him.
(2) Everything we do, we have a pattern: assess, deliver adjustment, re-check. This pattern is deployed from his toes through his nose, literally! We want to focus on outcomes and methodical observation is the only way to gage that.
(3) Specific Chiropractic care for animals is distinct from veterinary orthopedic manipulation: Chiropractors are looking for quality of movement, symmetry, balance, integration, coordination, which is different from the purpose of VOM (which is does it move or not, is it pathological)
(4) Notice how much s***kier Theodore gets though the process of his adjustment!

This was long, so I clipped it out to five videos. A systematic, thorough, outcomes-focused Chiropractic adjustment on a dog or cat usually takes about 15-20 minutes, mostly because I prefer to do little things to keep the dog (or cat) happy and relaxed for the process.

Part 1 of 5: intro

04/29/2026

Come be a "fly on the wall" for Theodore's adjustment!

Theodore is a service dog for a Marine vet, clearly a very important job. My intention is to make HIS job easier - because when you don't feel great, everything is harder. Since he has started with Animal Chiropractic care, Theo sleeps better, his movement and endurance have improved, and his people report he is less "grumpy," and less reactive to grooming (which can be a sign of pain/dysfunction).

Things to pay attention to in this series of videos:

(1) The adjustment process is safe and gentle. Theo is a participant at all times. There is nothing forceful or startling to him.
(2) Everything we do, we have a pattern: assess, deliver adjustment, re-check. This pattern is deployed from his toes through his nose, literally! We want to focus on outcomes and methodical observation is the only way to gage that.
(3) Specific Chiropractic care for animals is distinct from veterinary orthopedic manipulation: Chiropractors are looking for quality of movement, symmetry, balance, integration, coordination, which is different from the purpose of VOM (which is does it move or not, is it pathological)
(4) Notice how much s***kier Theodore gets though the process of his adjustment!

This was long, so I clipped it out to five videos. A systematic, thorough, outcomes-focused Chiropractic adjustment on a dog or cat usually takes about 15-20 minutes, mostly because I prefer to do little things to keep the dog (or cat) happy and relaxed for the process.

Part 1 of 5: intro

04/19/2026

Dr. Mike Adney adjusting a three week old baby goat! Notice how very gentle this is. I use the same analysis and adjusting approach on dogs and cats. 😍

(but if anyone wants to bring me a baby goat, I'm totally in!!!)

04/15/2026

Koda is a newbie at my office! He responded really well to his adjustment and i'm excited to hear from his mom how he does in the next few days.

Video three of three, Koda has changed from unsettled and pacing around the room to relaxed and ready to take a nap after his adjustment. That systemic tonal change definitely suggests to me that he's feeling better!

* down regulation is a response I see so often in dogs after they get adjusted!!

04/15/2026

Koda is a newbie at my office! He responded really well to his adjustment and i'm excited to hear from his mom how he does in the next few days.

Video two of three, observation of biomechanical adaptation after adjustment

04/15/2026

Koda is a newbie at my office! He responded really well to his adjustment and i'm excited to hear from his mom how he does in the next few days.

Video one of three, observation of movement prior to adjustment

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