Acupuncture For The Geriatric Dog

Date: 15 November 2025

Location: SMART Clinic Specialist Veterinary Referrals, Hoel Dulais, Swansea, SA7 9LH

Price: ABVA Members £295 Non-Members £325   (£50 off total fees if delegates also attend our Sporting Dog course on 14th November)

The course will take a practical and holistic approach to managing geriatric patients in day-to-day practice. Before we can treat pain, we must first understand it and the course will start with an overview of pain and its construct in our older patients and how age-related changes have an implication for management.

Acupuncture in the older dog is not just about managing OA however; it can have a vital role in the management of organ disease particularly when pharmacological intervention may be contraindicated. The course is designed to look at how acupuncture can be utilised alongside more conventional techniques to improve health and wellbeing.

The key learning objectives will include:

• Improving our clinical examination skills
• Developing a better understanding of the construct of pain and how acupuncture modulates these pathways
• Improving our outcomes and expand the role of acupuncture in our clinical practice
• Learning about the role of acupuncture in managing cardiac, kidney and liver disease

COURSE LECTURER

Lowri Davies

BVSc Dip ACVSMR MRCVS RCVS Specialist in Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dr Lowri Davies graduated from Bristol Veterinary School in 1992 and developed her interest in sports medicine and rehabilitation whilst working in specialist equine practice. In 2004 she established the SMART Referral Centre – the first specialised sports medicine and rehabilitation clinic for small animals in the UK. The clinics have a large, Europe wide client base and Lowri regularly lectures around the world. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation in 2016 and is a past president of the British Veterinary Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine association. Lowri is also a member of the International Association for the Study of Pain, The Royal Society of Medicine and the British Veterinary Orthopaedic Association.  Lowri has contributed to a number of texts on pain management and rehabilitation as well as authoring “Care of the Canine Athlete”.

When not at work, Lowri enjoys travelling - preferably somewhere she can climb a mountain, ski down a mountain or ride across several mountains.

‘Excellent clear teaching, inspirational teacher. Best CPD I have ever done.’
‘Very practical but backed up by good explanation of underlying science.’
‘Very enjoyable, almost too much info, left me with a lot to work on.’