Dear veterinary acupuncturist,

You have been invited to fill out this brief survey in order to help us design a study evaluating the effectiveness of acupuncture for the treatment of osteoarthritis-associated pain in dogs. Our goal is to create a protocol that is most likely to demonstrate a difference in objective outcome measures (client questionnaire, gait analysis, accelerometry), and as such, would like to select joints, acupuncture points, and protocols most likely to show these differences. We feel that by asking a group of experts in the practice of veterinary acupuncture, we have the best chance of developing such a protocol.

Thank you very much for your time. We sincerely appreciate your input on this project. We are happy to answer any questions or provide additional information about this study at your request.

The survey will begin when you click "next" at the bottom of this page. All of your responses to this survey are anonymous. The survey should take less than 10 minutes. 

Kind regards,

Theresa Wendland, DVM (theresa.wendland@colostate.edu)
Felix Duerr, DVM, MS, DECVS, DACVS, DACVSMR (felix.duerr@colostate.edu)
Colorado State University Small Animal Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

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