Welcome to our practice
Happy Holidays and welcome to our practice!
Riverdale Integrative Veterinary Care brings the best of conventional medicine and holistic therapies together to provide optimal care for your dogs, cats, and exotic animals.
Our unique approach to veterinary care emphasizes on achieving optimal wellness through preventative care, fear-free veterinary visits, conventional and holistic options, and
nutritional consultations.
Clinic Updates
We are so proud to announce our recently new addition
of ultrasound and dental x-ray machine to provide full services.
Please call at front desk at (973) 283-5576 to schedule an exam, pick up medications, or drop off samples for testing.
All new patients are required to leave a deposit of $100 for all
first exams and NAD appointments.
Ultrasound, anesthetic dental cleanings, and surgery appointments
are required to place a deposit of $375
If you need to reschedule, call or text the clinic number at least
24 hours before your appointment.
We will charge a no-show fee, same day reschedule and same day cancellation fee of $60 for any appointments for existing patients.
For other appointments, the deposit will not be refunded if it is cancelled within 48 hours of the appointment time or
rescheduled on the same day.
Preparing for Spring
Allergies
Springtime is a time for rebirth and renewal as the sun comes back out, flowers are blooming, and environmental-seasonal allergies return. Allergies can be a genetic issue or develop over time as the immune system changes. To help manage your pet's allergies, follow these steps.
1. Allergy Testing: Getting an allergy test is the quickest way of determining what allergens are affecting your pet. Once we know what the problem is, we can work on methods of keeping those allergens away.
2. Healthy Diet: Popular commercial dog foods use protein-meal, by-product, and preservatives that reduce the quality of food. Feeding a good-quality food like raw or home-cooked can reduce the chances of eating allergens.
3. Routine Grooming: Maintaining your pet's skin by brushing their coat, taking them for grooming appointments, detangling knots, wiping their paws, cleaning their ears, and trimming their nails helps remove environmental allergens on their body while supporting their skin health.
4. Clean House: Clean the house of excess hair, dirt, dust, and pollen that blows from outside. Fresh air is good for respiratory health, but limiting the exposure to pollen can help everyone breathe easier.
Pet Shelters are Full, Think Adoption
Local animal shelters are reporting they are at capacity with new pets. They are running out of space to hold new pets and will start turning away individuals who find stray animals or wishing to surrender their pet because they do not have adequate space for new pets.
These are no-kill shelters, so unwanted pets will not be euthanized.
Shelter managers are requesting new pet owners to consider adopting a new pet instead of buying one from a breeder.
What is Holistic medicine?
Western/Modern medicine likes to operate with the “deal with symptoms” approach, holistic medicine aims to find the root cause of a problem and finding solutions to ensure the issue is resolved forever.
Holistic medicine takes the whole body into account regarding treatment and achieving optimal care for the patient. Every cell, organ, and internal system affects the others, and a weakness in one area can affect the others.
We help treat patients by addressing the root cause, but also looking at the pet's diet, lifestyle, activity level, age requirements, specific breed requirements, and more to maximize their chances of living their best life.
Another key principle of holistic medicine is being open to all forms of treatment. We are open to all forms of medicine so clients have the most amount of options for their pet. This may include discussions on vaccinations, titer testing, surgery, diet change, acupuncture, physical therapy, and more.
Benefits of Acupuncture
Acupuncture can be effective with many medical conditions including:
Musculoskeletal problems: arthritis, muscle soreness, back problems and degenerative joint disease
Gastrointestinal disorders: diarrhea, vomiting and constipation
Neurological disorders: seizures and weakness of limbs
Chronic conditions: asthma, kidney disease, liver disease, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, skin disease, allergies and heart disease
Cancers and immune-mediated diseases: Benefits include improvement in the immune system, decreased symptoms of cancer (loss of appetite, pain, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness), alleviation of side effects of chemotherapy, and primary therapy for the cancer itself.
Following surgery: Surgery is considered an “acute trauma” and acupuncture is wonderful at treating associated pain and inflammation.
If you believe your pet may benefit from an acupuncture session,
schedule an appointment with our acupuncture certified doctors.