{"id":5466,"date":"2012-03-25T04:28:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2019-03-23T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T05:35:28","slug":"lsu-veterinary-hospital-integrates-alternative-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/lsu-veterinary-hospital-integrates-alternative-therapies\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU veterinary hospital integrates alternative therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, part of the veterinary school, has broadened its services to include acupuncture, massage therapy and herbal treatments for animals \u2014 the large ones for now and dogs and cats soon.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca McConnico, associate professor of veterinary medicine, said the combination of traditional medicine and newly adopted treatments are referred to as \u201cintegrative medicine.\u201d She studied equine acupuncture at the Chi Institute of Chinese Medicine in Reddick, Fla., last year before earning her large animal certification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theadvocate.com\/utility\/homepagestories\/2280411-129\/vet-school-adds-acupuncture-herbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor me and my understanding and experience, (LSU) integrates with \u2014 not instead of,\u201d she said, stressing the use of integrative therapies as a complement to traditional Western medicine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8876,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/8876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}