I think the chiro can adjust her jaw down. What makes me mad is that someone would injure her like that smash her face in, then let her run free in the wild. I doubt something like that could happen in outdoors unless a huge size rock just happened to fall on her head. Someone probably stepped on her!

Here is a top view of her head, you can see on the right (since its rotated, would be the bottom) circular thing (EDIT) is her sinus. Chiro thinks she may have a blocked sinus. Also notice the shape of her face, the asymmetry…YIKES!

Thanks, I’m sure she will be fine now that we caught the issue early on. I will definitely consider accupuncture in the future if it becomes apparent to me that the joint has worsened and she is in pain. For the present now she seems to be eating fine and not in pain. Plus I’ve already spent like $200 for the chiro + xrays so far.

I guess the point of this post was to show how sometimes Chiros can catch problems that vets dont. My vet looked at it before and just thought it was muscle atrophy and that didn’t think it was a problem as long as she was eating right. Generally, that’s how medical doctors (for humans) think too. Whereas Chiros recognize that structural problems even if they are asympomatic, can cause major problems as well.

The Chiro is Dr. Bodenbender she is a human & animal chiro (you have to get licenses for both) so she is not actually a vet. She has had some (but not a lot) of experience treating rabbits, which I think is due to the fact that not that many people would even take their rabbit in to see a chiro in the first place! Really only dog, cat and horse owners would bother, which she has lots of experience with. However, she owns a house rabbit so she has first-hand experience with how fragile they are, and she practices with hers at home.

She charged $65 for initial, $35 for each follow up and the xray was $50….not horrible. In LA they charge about $65 each time and I could not find anyone who would be good for rabbits. I’m going to tell the Bunny Bunch about her….I’m sure she would be great for some of the rescues who have major orthopedic problems.

I would definitely say its worth it….because vets would not be able to treat a problem in this way. There is a great article on chiropractic at HRS: Harry Goes to the Chiro

You should only take your rabbit if your noticing asymmetry or crookedness anywhere, like in the spine. Or in the face, if one eye is bulging more than the other (One of Medusa’s eyes is squished by the tight jaw which is causing slight redness & irritation).

Here are some pix from our last chiro trip:

Videos (gotta love her wiggling nose):

No, no meds. In foreign environments she would never try to run away. The chiro said buns are one of the easiest animals to work with (compared to dogs for example) because they stay still and let you do anything to them.

She also didn’t have to take anything for her xrays, she just stayed still.

Don’t your guys’ buns stay still at the vets though? Because they get scared in the car ride then they are scared at the vets office.

I guess bunnies have different reactions to frightening situations. Some freeze and others panic and go crazy. Medusa can freeze for the longggesstt time. When she was introduced to Pookers, she stayed in the litterbox the entire day & entire night (didn’t even come out for water), frozen.