Ruptured Cruciate

[jodi_adam]

has anyone on here had a dog rupture a cruciate and successfully treated it with out surgery? names of dog rehab would be helpful???

A FEW FACTS ABOUT PORSCHA BEFORE YOU ANSWER;

porscha is my loyal 2year old female 22kg staffy who decided to jump her 6ft pen about a month ago wanting to chase another dog walking past the front of our house, porscha often plays ruff with her best friend a amstaff and sometimes she ends up with a few scratches and bumps and the occasional limp which resolves its self by the end of the day, well anyways she continued to play and act like her normal happy self for the next 1.5 days and I just got sick of looking at her limp. when I took her to the vets she had xrays done this is what it said on the recept: prob bilateral cruciate: unable to get draw but xrays indicate of r cruciate.. Ok well she has had four weeks of cartrophen and she is starting another round .

Now for the stuff I feel bad about I have been told that the surgery will cost $4000- this is not a option as I can not find that anywhere plus the i do not think I can contain her through out the recovery the vet said that one wrong move from a dog of this breed could end in devastation, at the moment she is in a porta cot in my lounge room and every time I get up eg toilet or chase my 2 nearly 3year old son she gets up too, I bought a little pen for outside in the daytime and she pulled the metal bars off to get out I even carry her outside to the toilet and the moment I put her on the ground she wants to play with me

I guess what I am asking is, has any one seen or heard of a miracle happen with out surgery?

[stormie]

Yep - our Golden Retriever ruptured both her cruciates at different times and neither were operated on. The vet told us it wasn't necessary and she just had a course of Cartrophen after each rupture.

She eventually was able to walk and walked quite well, but as she got older her legs weren't so good.

I'd get another opinion - we do cruciate repairs all the time and the most I've seen it come to is $1500. Some might say that the method we use (DeAngelis) is old school, but really, the technique is only going to be as good as the person who's operating and our vet is very experienced in Orthopedics and I've never seen one of his repairs fail (and if it did, he'd repair again for no charge).

I've seen a Great Dane that had his cruciate repaired with the DeAngelis technique and you would never had known he'd had surgery. I've seen others who have had the expensive options done by specialists fail, and not be able to be corrected.

[jodi_adam]

Yep - our Golden Retriever ruptured both her cruciates at different times and neither were operated on. The vet told us it wasn't necessary and she just had a course of Cartrophen after each rupture.

She eventually was able to walk and walked quite well, but as she got older her legs weren't so good.

I'd get another opinion - we do cruciate repairs all the time and the most I've seen it come to is $1500. Some might say that the method we use (DeAngelis) is old school, but really, the technique is only going to be as good as the person who's operating and our vet is very experienced in Orthopedics and I've never seen one of his repairs fail (and if it did, he'd repair again for no charge).

I've seen a Great Dane that had his cruciate repaired with the DeAngelis technique and you would never had known he'd had surgery. I've seen others who have had the expensive options done by specialists fail, and not be able to be corrected.

what area are you at? see i love my vets they have always been understanding and they don't just treat my animals like just another $ i have heard so many bad stories about vets, i guess thats why i haven't changed and i have brang all my friends and family to these vets as well.

i heard that the old school surgery is better for the smaller dogs like the malts and poms but not so good for the bigger ones? what did you have to do to get your retriever up and walking? im having a real hard time keeping her still, she is still very much a puppy in the head.

[cavNrott]

You will probably get more replies if you post this question in the health/nutrition forum.

Palliative care is usually about caring for a terminally ill dog.

[jodi_adam]

You will probably get more replies if you post this question in the health/nutrition forum.

Palliative care is usually about caring for a terminally ill dog.

;) sorry i will copy and paste now, thanks.

[cavNrott]

;) sorry i will copy and paste now, thanks

No probs I think there is a thread about cruciate ligaments in either health or general.

Best of luck with Porcha ;)