This feels like the equivalent of getting abducted by a superintelligent alien race, being put into a machine beyond your wildest comprehension, and then probably getting a treat and sent back home where nobody will believe you
funny sad fact, if a person weigh 600 or more lbs, they sometimes have to use xrays/ct/mri in the zoos that are meant for larger animals.
I learned this from Scrubs
I had a patient tell me he had to go to a zoo for an MRI. I thought it was a self deprecating joke but he was serious.
Are we the bad guys?
I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂
Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Oftentimes, issues go unnoticed simply because the animal masks things like pain. Luckily, the vet immediately knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.
“That’s it I’m taping you down!”
Poor Blaze doing his checkup 🤭
The bdsm community is leaking.
No pun intended btw.
Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.
Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.
It’s also the only one that’s an Xray instead of a CT
Stopped asking those pesky questions now didn’t it?
Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?
Grapes
they did surgery on a grape!
My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL
Mine are the snake and the taped bird
They really just folded that snake up
The dolphin sent me.
That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such… unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.
Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?
Somehow I don’t think the fish consented to this…
Thanks for sharing. How does the fish one work? The dolphin I get because it breathes oxygen, but don’t all fish have gills? I feel like it should be in the water.
… Who said it needs to live.
💀💀💀
It can be out for a matter of minutes.
Humans are just ludicrously overdependent on aerobic respiration, our brain metabolism is overcharged to the point of being broken.
Most other animals have a lot more room to function sans oxygen, they’re more limited by stored energy reserves.
I’m in a yoga teacher training at the moment, and a biologist by background. It’s been amazing seeing how the different yogic breathing techniques impact mental and physical states.
Those crazy folks in the Indus valley civilization made a serious study of this, at least 4,000 years ago according to current evidence. Some techniques, like yoga nidra (alternate nostril breathing for several minutes) have significant impacts on nervous system function.
You can measure this directly with a cheap heart rate monitor and an app that can interpret and returns stats on heart rate variability.
Those old yogis made a study out of exploiting our brain’s dependence on oxygen and developed some pretty cool biohacks.
Anything on there that fixes POTS or general awareness of everything around us?
Do you mean the syndrome that causes lightheadedness when standing up?
I found a 2021 research article that shows 6 months of regular cardiovascular exercise improves the condition. Some forms of physical yoga practice are vigorous and get into the cardio range.
I can’t find yoga-specific studies on POTS, but there are many on other conditions that include dizziness and syncope as main symptoms. That’s what a quick google scholar search revealed.
Yoga emphasizes attention and breath awareness during the movement practices. I personally have a job that requires a lot of stooping and standing. At first I was often dizzy standing up, but as my practice has intensified and progressed that has gone away completely.
I don’t know, if your physician clears you for the activity, there are many benefits to it. Maybe worth a deeper look?
And as for general awareness, hell yes. That is the entire focus of yoga philosophy, to quiet the busy mind. The scientific studies on that are plentiful.
Wim Hof breathing is so good from time to time
Have never given him money and think he ventures into pseudoscience but this beginner video is safe (no BS, just breathing)
Yeah, people, don’t follow Wim Hof in having enemas on public fountains.
You’re supposed to hold your breath for a CT, so the fish is just fine for a bit.
Maybe the fish are dead, or not out of the water for too long.
Some of those seem to have consented after being forced to.
I’m pretty convinced the cat is just being a cat though.
Looks like it’s going through some reps
A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
The hamster burritos got me good.
The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.
Love how the bird is still smiling
Thanks so much for sharing!
What don’t Samsung make?
Good phones 🙄
There’s definitely two kinds
- Ima napping
- You think this is funny? This cell won’t hold me forever. And once I’m free, you will all regret it
Why couldn’t that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here’s the context.
CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it’s just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.
hehe
Random mirror linker btw:
https://farside.link/https://www.reddit.com/r/VetTech/comments/1ge3kh0/modern_art
Birds have very delicate aie sacs. For small birds like that constricting them can seriously damage them and cause issues breathing.
I think they lack a diaphragm. It was weird reading in my cockatiel care books that some handling on the neck was fine, but even small pressure to their chest could prevent them from breathing.
Gotta get the wings spread.
