The best medicine for arthritis in dogs is prevention or at least delaying its onset, and taking action to help reduce the pain once it does appear.
Things to consider: Good preventive measures, making an arthritic dog more comfortable, and everyday things to do that reduce stress on your dog's joints.
Preventive Action - Arthritis dog medicines play a crucial role in relieving the painful symptoms of the degenerative disease, but you do not have to wait for your dog to come down with arthritis to do something about it now. Orthopedic dog beds with egg-carton shaped foam more evenly distribute the dog's weight and reduce pressure on the joints. This can prevent the early onset of arthritis as well as alleviate the painful symptoms once the problem exists.
Clothes Will Help - To make your arthritic dog more comfortable, warming dog clothes like a sweater for indoors or a fleece coat for outdoors can ease some of the old girl's discomfort without you needing to keep feeding her dog medicines for her pain.
Raise the Dishes - Trade out your old dog dishes and bowls for elevated dog dishes and bowls and you will cause less leaning on their front paws and legs and reduce the strain on their neck and spine. Preventive measure like this can thwart the need for more expensive prescription dog medicines for arthritis.
