"Star Bailey, D.C. has been working with animals since she was a child. She has a gift."
Bailiani Healing Center now includes Holistic Animal Wellness! Dr. Bailey utilizes non-force healing techniques on her animal patients. One of her favorites is NET. Dramatic changes in not only humans, but horses, dogs, cats, and birds have been experienced when utilizing Neuro-Emotional Technique and homeopathy.
NET allows information to be gathered regarding previous emotional trauma which has either been held in the body, causing pain and dysfunction, or else is causing the patient to experience emotional blocks to success/happiness. After Dr. Bailey and the patient discover the blockages to healing, they are then removed using non-force techniques and homeopathic remedies, resulting in unparalleled results.
Along with the aforementioned non-force techniques, Dr. Bailey also uses VOM (Veterinary Orthopedic Manipulation) technique, and VNIT (Veterinary Neural Integration Technique) to help her animal patients. The techniques restore normal nerve function (just like chiropractic in humans) and thereby normalize blood flow to the animal's organs (also like chiropractic).
VOM and VNIT techniques utilize a gentle activator-like instrument to deliver the adjustment. It's settings range from gentle enough for a bird to strong enough for a baby elephant!
Due to their non-invasive nature, VOM and VNIT techniques are 100% safe, however you must have veterinary authorization to have them performed on your pet! (Authorization can be completed at time of appt. if necessary) For more information on VOM, go to www.vomtech.com. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Bailey, call 858-792-1955! Barn calls are available! Dear loved one,
New Years message from Dr. Bailey:
It's been quite a year, this 2008. Personally, I've experienced some great times, and yes, some tough ones. Some of you may know my own personal health struggles this year, others may not. Suffice it to say, I've learned a WHOLE LOT!!!! This morning after some wonderful philosophical discussions with the greatest minds in healing, I realized the lesson I most needed to learn this year, perhaps this lifetime, was a lesson that my dog Jack has been trying to teach me ever since I met him 2 years ago. You see Jack, my incredible Clumber Spaniel came to me after months of rehab which had followed his rescue in San Francisco. When he was found in the city streets, Animal Control noted that he couldn't walk, was covered in at least 5 tumors, one the size of a grapefruit, had ear and eye infections, was mostly deaf, didn't see all that great, was probably an old guy, and was about 20 pounds underweight. He had chewed on his own limbs so much from the itching and I think hunger as he still does it when he's hungry that his front teeth were worn down to below the gum line in places. He looked like a Springer Spaniel, and so the Springer Spaniel Rescue considered rescuing him from being euthanized at the pound. But the surgeries he would require were too expensive, and they decided against it, given his condition. But someone cared and started desperately looking for other options. Everyone who met him and saw his sweet soul agreed that there was something special about him, because they kept trying to nurture him back to health even though he was in awful shape. After a lot of searching, and without exaggeration, an hour before he was to be euthanized, a wonderful dog rescue agency called Grateful Dogs Rescue saved him and committed the funds to the surgeries he would need to remove the tumors, and the manpower they knew it would take to nurse him back to health. His tumors were removed, he was "fixed", bathed, micro-chipped, vaccinated, the works...that he survived all that is a miracle if you ask me! :) Anyway, he was put in a foster home with another dog who attacked him and sliced his face open...more stitches. The next adoptive family was new at this, and the first and only other dog she had tried to rehab hadn't made it. Her name was Gemma and she was the gem who let me adopt Jack, even though I was from out of town, and that was breaking the rules. :)
Around 2 years ago, I was watching my eldest cat Sam decline from what I thought was thyroid cancer. Although he did have a tumor, it turned out later, that he was actually being poisoned by his catfood, as within weeks, Sam and his younger pal Luca, my other "healthy" cat succumbed to the ugly death that was the result of the melamine/gluten poisoning in petfood that killed so many. (By the way, stay away from gluten from China, it's still not safe). Anyway, I wanted a dog to replace Sam that could help Luca as she was a deaf girl, and Sam had been her ears. I had been looking at rescues online for a few months, and when I saw Jack, I knew he was the one. He was gorgeous, good with cats, very mellow (so I could take him to the office) and his name was "Sam"...who else should replace "Sam" I thought? I called the place and said I was coming to San Francisco for a seminar the following week, could I meet him? Well, I got a big fat "NO" from the head of Grateful Dogs Rescue because I was from out of town, and they'd all grown so attached to him, even though they couldn't keep him, they wanted him to stay in town so they could look in on him from time to time, plus I didn't have a fenced in yard :(. I drove to San Francisco instead of flying, still I had this vision that kept popping into my head of driving home with my dog companion...well, late Friday night as I sat chatting with friends the phone rang and Gemma in her beautiful Irish accent said she'd heard I was a chiropractor and believed that "Sammy" needed some chiropractic attention because she still was having trouble rehabilitating him to walk, and that the president of Grateful Dogs was out of town, and so she could make the determination of where "Sammy" went while she was gone, and wanted to meet me even though I was from out of the area. I went over and it was love at first sight...he came home with me to San Diego and we started treatment right away. Thank you Gemma!!! Jack was very weak, staggered when he walked, was extremely attached to me, completely submissive, and allergic to everything. Raw food gave him colitis, regular dog food made him itch to the point of gnawing himself to bleeding. Even homeopathics made him itch. A day after a bath, he smelled like he was dying :( I used my chiro knowledge and did what I could, and saw some improvement as he was able to climb stairs after a few months. :)
Jack always tickled me because he never really "got it" that he had a weak hind end, and that if he tried to jump, inevitably he would collapse. He never figured out that he just didn't have the strength in his back legs to hold him. He had learned, though, that if he tried to back up, he would collapse, so he tried to always move forward, and consequently rammed everything with his head to get places. Never complained a bit as he hit his head over and over with quite a thud sometimes. It was sad for me to watch at first, every once in a while he looked humiliated when he would fall or hit his head, but perhaps I was anthropomorphizing. Most of the time he just dealt with it, almost with a smile! If he fell, he would relax into it, roll to the ground, relax for a moment, and then just try to get up and walk again. I'd had a hope when I first got him that as a chiropractor I'd be able to rehab him to the point where he could "canter" rather than just walk and trot, but the muscle tissue in his left hind leg just wasn't coming back. Over time I think I was just happy he was still walking, and that we had moved into a first floor apt. because it was getting difficult for him to go upstairs sometimes.
I made some mistakes with Jack. Advantage and Frontline were the first...I gave him a dose of Frontline and he went paralyzed in the hind end for 2 weeks. A few months later I tried Advantage and the same thing happened...it was horrible. Then he got tapeworm as the fleas weren't contained. The tapeworm meds made him weak again. He was attacked by a poodle in Starbucks and the vet wanted to cut his beautiful ear off and I said "Stitch it and we'll make it work!" That, luckily was a good decision. Thank goodness for alpha sonic, (my needle free acupuncture unit) as I am pretty sure that it saved his ear! Over time, his tumor on his left hind leg started to grow, and another one came where the big one had been removed. There was hope as the second one expressed itself and went down after some NET work, but the vet had to take the other one off his leg along with some infected teeth...the natural teeth cleaning I'd had done for him was probably too little too late. He passed the surgery with flying colors, but the results showed he had cancer of the nerve sheaths in his muscles which explained the recurring tumors and the weakness in his legs. Statistics said that he should have been dead before I even got him if that was what caused the original tumors. Prognosis even treated with chemo and radiation was under a year. He's already been with me for nearly 2. We certainly weren't going that route.
I guess I knew when I got him that we may only have a short time together and I was going to enjoy every bit of it as he recovered from the tumor removal...the diagnosis didn't shock me that much, but after the diagnosis became "real" I think I sort of quit trying to rehab him. I was lifting him into the car to save time instead of helping him do it on his own because he kept collapsing every time he tried. :( So many supplements had made him itch, I quit trying. I quit adjusting him...he seemed to be holding his own, he wasn't worsening. I got lazy. The only thing I would do was periodically douse the tumor that liked to bleed (that the vet said she couldn't remove) with an anti-oxidant creme called Super Oxi Cell to keep it from bleeding and growing. I thought we'd hit maximum medical improvement as they say in the industry.
But, as luck would have it, we were in a mild car accident 4 weeks ago and Jack developed a hematoma in his ear afterwards. I started him back on alpha sonic treatments, and I adjusted his spine. I used the massager on his neurolymphatics, I stimulated his nerve sheaths in his legs with chiropractic tecnniques I hadn't thought to try before. I tried the homeopathics again. No itching this time! Hmmm! Weeks earlier I'd finally after a summer of no sleep and both of us suffering a lot with his fleas that weren't responding to natural means, I tried "Revolution" and it didn't paralyze him, and it had worked, YAY!!! He wasn't falling down any more every time he tried to scratch himself! I started applying the super oxicell creme 3 times a day to his bleeding tumor instead of once every few days, even put it on his elbow scars as they'd started growing hair there before but stopped when I stopped the creme. Well, it's been 2 years since Jack and I met...he is now cantering!!! My dream of watching him run came true a week and a half ago as he galloped about 20 steps down the street. He's done it consistently since!!! He's jumping for food like a puppy and not collapsing! He still has trouble getting off the floor, but it's much easier, and he can lift both front legs at the same time to get into the car without collapsing. The hematoma resolved 6 weeks sooner than the vet predicted, his bleeding tumor stopped bleeding and started shrinking. Jack never gave up. I did. What a lesson!!!! I think most humans would have quit trying to jump or run after that many failures and bonks on the head. All that time I have to admit I kind of thought he was stupid for trying because he would always end up falling down and it was harder to get back up after he fell. Thank you Jack for teaching me that I was the stupid one for giving up.
My wish for you, dear friend, is to never give up on your health or any other dream you have, no matter how bleak it may seem...and don't give up on those you love either!
Happy New Year to You! May all your dreams come true, and may you never stop dreaming more!!! Love, Star and Jack