{"id":5894,"date":"2025-03-12T09:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/?p=5894"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:29:58","slug":"what-is-early-neurological-stimulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/?p=5894","title":{"rendered":"What is Early Neurological Stimulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Neurological stimulation (ENS) is a set of five simple exercises that provide mild stressors from days 3-16 to help aid their development, resilience, and coping mechanisms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENS Process<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tactile Stimulation &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>we gently rotate a Q-Tip between the toes of a single foot on the puppy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Head Held Erect &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>using both hands, we hold the puppy vertically so that its head is directly above its tail.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Head Pointed Down &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0we hold puppy securely with both hands, point the head downward<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Supine Position &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>we hold the puppy on its back, resting in the palm of both hands with its muzzle facing the ceiling.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Thermal Stimulation &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>we place the puppy on a cool, damp towel, feet down allowing the puppy to move away.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>improved cardiovascular performance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stronger heart beats<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stronger adrenal glands<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>more tolerance to stress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>greater resistance to disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Neurological stimulation (ENS) is a set of five simple exercises that provide mild stressors from days 3-16 to help[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352,58],"tags":[40,22,91,12,15,18,54,496,7,497,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5896,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5894\/revisions\/5896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smokymountaindoodles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}