Table 3.
CAVM methods used or recommended for different indications by Swedish equine veterinary practitioners responding to a questionnaire. (n = 100, multiple choices possible).
| Method | Tendon Injury |
Muscle Injury |
Skeletal Injury |
Ligament Injury | Arthritis | Neural Injury |
Back Pain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acupuncture | 5 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 12 |
| Chiropractic | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 27 |
| Electrotherapy | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 |
| Laser therapy | 41 | 35 | 10 | 20 | 14 | 9 | 6 |
| LED light | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Magnetic therapy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Massage | 24 | 67 | 32 | 26 | 21 | 36 | 32 |
| Naprapathy | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Osteopathy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Stretching | 21 | 38 | 22 | 20 | 14 | 16 | 15 |
| Ultrasound | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Water treadmill | 44 | 56 | 57 | 38 | 36 | 43 | 12 |
| None of the above | 63 | 29 | 38 | 44 | 57 | 41 | 16 |
| Other | 21 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 16 | 13 |