ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Call it a massive upgrade in pain management for Eastern Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Center’s vet Berit Fischer.<\/p>\n
“It is kind of landmark drug,” the 25-year Anesthesiologist and pain management vet said.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an injection given to canine’s living with severe pain, a new leash on life. The drug is called Synovetin. It can turn tearful pleas from owners as their dogs lie in pain into emotional physical triumphs for both.<\/p>\n
“It has profoundly changed the pain management outlook for animals in general,” Fischer said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fischer, one of only about 100 vets across the country to use the technology, says the yearly injection, without known side effects, is radio therapeutic. It’s not lost through the bloodstream and treats severe joint pain and arthritis instead of masking it.<\/p>\n
“He wasn’t walking as well. His hips were kind of hurting him. I could just tell he wasn’t comfortable anymore,” said Brandon Rosenthal.<\/p>\n
His dog Brady had the injection in his hip.<\/p>\n
“Two weeks later back to his puppy self couldn’t be happier,” he said.<\/p>\n
Taking the hobbled to a happy place isn’t cheap, the cost is $4,000, where in some cases insurance can cover the cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Absolutely, (worth the price) I would do it again every year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Spoken like a dog\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Call it a massive upgrade in pain management for Eastern Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Center’s vet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,31314,31309,31313,31311,11249,31315,31312,31310],"class_list":{"0":"post-56773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-animal-health","12":"tag-arthritis","13":"tag-canine-treatment","14":"tag-joint-pain","15":"tag-pain-management","16":"tag-radio-therapeutic","17":"tag-synovetin","18":"tag-veterinary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}