Two and a half years ago my household adopted a rescue German Shepherd about 10 years old. The shelter told us that he had arthritis in the hips, a common malady in Shepherds. Upon getting him home we found that he dragged his hind feet causing him to scrape his toe nails down to the quick and bleed. After a quick review of the literature we figured it was not arthritis but degenerative myelopathy, which was confirmed by our vet. Obviously the diagnosis had zero options in allopathic medicine but since I had read of the work of Dr. Frederick R. Klenner [1] I decided to try mega dosage of vitamin B1 (thiamine) knowing that it would help to protect the myelin sheath from further deterioration. Read more.