Mora Granados, EricaAlvarado Zúñiga, Melissa Paola2016-04-272016-04-2720082008-06-09http://hdl.handle.net/11056/12998Modalidad: Práctica dirigidaEste trabajo es el resultado de una práctica dirigida durante 8 meses en el Hospital de Especies Menores y Silvestres de la Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria de la Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. El objetivo de esta práctica fue emplear la electroacupuntura (EA) como tratamiento complementario en pacientes caninos con parálisis o paresis del tren posterior, que no habían respondido de manera satisfactoria al tratamiento alopático, aplicado por el veterinario a cargo. A cada paciente se le realizó un examen físico general y la estimación de la función neurológica; de acuerdo a los resultados obtenidos se le adaptó un protocolo de EA. En total se trabajó con 15 pacientes, los cuales se clasificaron según el síndrome que presentaron, a saber: el síndrome toracolumbar en el cual se ubicó a la mayoría de los pacientes, y el síndrome de la cauda equina. Se observó una respuesta positiva en 9 pacientes, además se determinó que la falta de un diagnóstico preciso influyó en gran parte en la respuesta obtenida. Finalmente se exponen dos casos atendidos durante este período. Ambos pacientes presentaron síndrome toracolumbar.The following paper was held in the National University of Costa Rica -Small Animal and Wildlife Veterinary Hospital. It consisted of a directed practice that lasted eight months. The objective of this practice was to use electroacupuncture (EA) as a complementary treatment in canine patients, which suffered from paralysis or paresis of the posterior train which did not respond to the allopathic treatment satisfactorily, this treatment was applied to the patients by the doctor in charge. Each patient took a general physical exam and also each one took a test regarding the neurological function. According to the gotten results, they were adapted to an electroacupuncture protocol. There were taken 15 patients as samples which were classified according to the syndrome that they developed. These were thoracolumbar syndrome (which was presented in most of the patients), and also cauda equine syndrome. The positive response was observed in nine patients. Moreover, the lack of a definitive diagnostic was determined and this highly influenced most of the obtained responses from the patients. Finally, there are two cases which were taken during this period of time. Both patients suffered from thoracolumbar syndrome.application/pdfes-ESAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Costa Ricahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cr/PERROPARALISISMEDICINA VETERINARIAACUPUNTURAENFERMEDADES CANINASMEDICINA ALTERNATIVAhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_7a1f