Degenerative Myelopathy: Symptoms, Cause, and Treatment
Degenerative myelopathy (DM) is a slowly progressive neurological disease of the spine in dogs. Degeneration means deterioration. Myelopathy is any problem with the spinal cord. So, degenerative myelopathy means deterioration of the spinal cord. The spinal cord carries information from the brain, down the neck, along the back, to the limbs and tail, and then…