| abstract |
The invention relates to a process for ameliorating and preventing inflammatory chronic pain from a degenerative joint disease in household pets as dogs and cats, in which there is administered to a household pet in need therefor a dosage of an analgesically effective amount of flupirtine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of flupirtine, optionally together with one or more active ingredients that is an antiinflammatory, an analgesic other than flupirtine, a steroid, a chondroprotector, a TNFá receptor, and a plant extract. |