https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/26560/acute-back-pain-continental-giant-staff-pet Hello! Our nurse has a 1y4m ME Continental Giant rabbit. He started vocalising Thursday evening as if painful and was given meloxicam and was seen Friday and found to have pain on palpation over his lumbar spine. He had melox again 0.6mg/kg and buprenorphineen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/190993?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:53:01 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:2b54ff04-ecd1-46ee-91a4-ab31c42756e8Martin Atkinson<p>[quote user=&quot;Mark Rowland&quot;]K-LASER, IT REALLY WORKS&nbsp;<img src="/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /><img src="/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /><img src="/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" />[/quote]Better than acupunture? Could always try Reike or a bit of fairy dust.<img src="/emoticons/v2/devil.png" alt="Mischievous" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/190974?ContentTypeID=1Sun, 07 Jan 2018 17:43:07 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:00443d57-4362-45ba-8975-0cc8c45918bcMark Rowland<p>Hi</p> <p>You need some advanced imaging. CT or MRI would be best. I have seen a bit of disc prolapse in rabbits.</p> <p>Whilst waiting.</p> <p>Tramadol 10mg/kg</p> <p>meloxicam &nbsp;(0.5-1mg/kg)</p> <p>Gabapentin 30mg/kg tid.</p> <p></p> <p>K-LASER, IT REALLY WORKS&nbsp;<img src="/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /><img src="/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /><img src="/emoticons/v2/Very_happy_smiley.png" alt="Very happy" /></p> <p></p> <p>Don&#39;t let this go anorexic, syringe feed and cisapride.</p> <p></p> <p>Goodluck</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>