Amantadine, an N-Methyl-D-Aspartate antagonist, for treatment of chronic neuropathic pain in a dog.

One single dose would control postoperative pain and inflammation for one whole week.

As BLIS provides equivalent analgesia, this may allow for decreased reliance on opioids in the immediate postoperative period.

Oral gabapentin at the dose and frequency studied did not improve subjective or objective outcome measures.

Many practices still do not consistently utilise pain scales to assess pain in dogs and cats

Local sustained release of CXB is less suitable to treat acute inflammation in arthritic joints.

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