Vet Recommendations For Cruciate Ligament Injury (melbourne) First Quo

[matilda1]

I had TPLO done on my Rottie by a specialist Dr Charles Kuntz at South Paws Surgery in south east melbourne - he was absolutely fantastic and my Rottie is now fully healed and running around like it had never happened. It was expensive though, almost $4000 due to her size. Still, I was very impressed with South Paws and would highly recommend it to anyone.

Good old Chuckey

Does do a great job

[westiemum]

I'm in the unusual position of having a small dog (ten year old westie) who has just had a tibial wedge repair on the right after the DA technique failed. (His first DA with the same vet in 2006 on the left has worked brilliantly - no probs at all). The DA technique on the right was around 1.2k and the subsequent tibial wedge over 3k six weeks later (before my very kind vets discount back to 2.56k! :rolleyes: ). So its been an expensive 6-8 weeks but I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat.

So far so good.

I used to believe in conservative treatment but with an existing vulnerable previous repair (in my case on the left), I'm very very wary about putting the vulnerable (left) leg under pressure while waiting to see if the right leg resolves - hence my opting for a surgical repair on the right ASAP rather than waiting. I was really concerned about the first (left) ACL repair breaking down. It also means their lower back is also under pressure until repair/resolution. So all in all for my old boy I opted for surgery. If I'm really honest, I was opting for conservative treatment in 2006 initially, to put off the expense of surgery - and in hindsight I wonder if that put the right leg under pressure and on the path to a breakdown some years later... who knows... but worth thinking about.

Hope that helps.

Edited June 6, 2010 by westiemum