LAND O’ LAKES, Wis. (WJFW) — Once in a while you or your pet may need an adjustment. For animals, finding someone to give your pet an adjustment can be a tough task.
Up North Wellness Center in Land O’ Lakes has been in the Northwoods for the past five years. Co-owner and chiropractor Dr. Doug Tansor has been performing chiropractic adjustments at his practice for both animals and people.
Tansor’s dream was to be able to help animals in addition to people in the Northwoods.
“The Northwoods is more of a rural place we’ve had pets come up here,” Dr. Tansor said. “It’s kind of hard to get into specialized services so when I finished with my certification with animals it was always a dream to move up here and bring this service to the Northwoods.”
In the five years that Dr. Tansor has been running his business in Land O’ Lakes, he’s made it part of his mission and goal to help animals that can’t make it in for help.
“During the week I’m actually here in the office, I take care of humans and animals,” Tansor said. “A lot of the local community will bring their animals right to me but it’s not very easy to trailer in a horse or trailer in a show cow so every weekend it was kind of like, we felt like rockstars this year.”
Dr. Doug Tansor works with Luna the dog. Luna gets chiroporactic adjustments to help with her hearing.
His family drives around to a different town each weekend to help animals like horses, cows and sheep get chiropractic adjustments. Since starting performing chiropractic adjustments for animals, Tansor has seen how it’s helped them.
He said, “I mean we’ve seen animals go from literally last week, we had a dog that came in as a referral from a local veterinarian office that wasn’t walking at all, lost complete function of their rear end and over the course of three to four visits, went from not walking to regaining full function in their rear end.”
Tansor explained that for animals, performing the adjustment is different than it is for people.
“They’re fou- legged animals and we’re two-legged so the adjustment process and the way that we deliver the adjustment is much different,” Tansor said. “But, I see animals ranging from just some low-back stiffness as they age to performance animals that are looking for an edge in competition. When it comes to barrel racing or even agility dogs, being able to weave through those poles requires a lot of spinal mobility.”
Sadly, for animals in need of an adjustment there aren’t a whole lot of places for them to go. Dr. Tansor said that in the Northwoods his currently the only practice that offers the service.
He said, “I don’t think there’s another animal chiropractor within maybe 100 miles that sees large and small animals.”