ness Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 As well as expected - not much to go wrong with taking blood and injecting it back. She was only given the reversal for the sedative about 5 minutes before I took her home again, they said it would take about 15 min and I was happy to stay around or I could take her home. I opted to take her with me and within about 30 seconds of arriving home she was wanting after the postie . Although managed to talk her out of that. Now we have 3 days of strict crate rest. Then a couple of weeks of avoiding any sudden movements or doing much then we can test it out and see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mason_Gibbs Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Fingers crossed Ness!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flaves Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 Fingers crossed Ness The acupuncture helped Bohdes with his shoulder We are taking it easy but he is now allowed to go on walks and start training for the specialty ring - just slowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted December 26, 2011 Share Posted December 26, 2011 Yeah Kenz had a round of acupuncture back in June or so. Slowly is certainly the key with everything - rehab is a gradual process. I have been remarkably good. Kenz has not had a walk since last Tuesday night and while she is being a little bit of a pest around the place she is coping ok. We are away from home so there has been no fence running or alarm barking or racing off down stairs at a million miles an hour so hoping the small amount of incidental running she has done is tame in comparison to normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flaves Posted February 27, 2012 Author Share Posted February 27, 2012 How is Ness going? Bohdes is still lame, really badly It is really getting me down What else can i do for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 (edited) Forgot about this thread totally - Kenz has had a repeat course of PRP injections (so 2 treatments). One three days before Christmas, another follow up 3 weeks later. We have had a few other lameness issues i.e. a grade 2 medial luxating patella on her opposite hind leg that has popped up . Her ortho specialist has been treating her rehab as a post joint surgery rehab - so its been fairly strict. Started with rest then 4 short walks a day increasing the distance by 10% twice a week. We are 10 weeks down from her first injection and she is swimming for up to 20-30 min most days and having a 3 or 4 km walk in the afternoon with no evidence of post rest soreness or stiffness from the shoulder. She is still somewhat confined at home but has had the occasional fence running or racing down the stairs with no relapse. She is still not back to full activity but the specialist is taking things a little cautiously and I don't think it should cause her to many problems. Most of her lameness is now related to the patella - so she might not avoid surgery completely. She had a physio appointment this afternoon. Physio hasn't seen her since October last year. There was some tightness again mostly hind end stuff. Her shoulder was given a pretty good going over with no real trigger points or anything to be had. Her original diagnosis back in May last year was that she had a bit of a subluxation with her shoulder and it was suspected there was some ligament damage along with the biceps tendonitis. She presently has a degree of outward rotation but nothing eliciting any pain response and it all seems to have touch wood settled down. The real test will come when she is allowed to go back to full training - whenever that is. But still fairly confident in saying at this stage her shoulder seems to have come good. At this stage of things the physio wants to see some more hill walks/walking through shallow water and walking through soft sand which agrees with what the specialist as said she can do. We can also do some limited amounts of heel work and some gentle tugging. The suggestion at the moment from the physio is to give it another month of gradually adding and then see how she gets on. Edited February 27, 2012 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flaves Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 Thanks for that, can you give me some more info on PRP please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inevitablue Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 PM sent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flaves Posted February 28, 2012 Author Share Posted February 28, 2012 Thankyou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) LOL I see Inevitablue already has been in touch . I will say I think her specialist has adopted a super conservative approach to it but then I guess you get that when your dealing with an ortho guy. Its also a significantly chronic problem which I don't really want to go backwards with so I guess conservative is warranted in this instance. Kenz's specialist is actually off to the US to attend a conference soon at which PRP is to be discussed so will be interesting to see what he says when he returns. Edited February 28, 2012 by ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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