What to do about a “ruptured cruciate” diagnosis? There’s conservative management, traditional extracapsular surgical repair, TPLO/TTA (geometry-altering open knee surgeries), and TIGHTROPE CCL (minimally invasive surgical repair). We are NOT knife happy and yet orthopedic injury management is about quality and spirit of life. So, we did Tightrope. We had a dog with 2 ruptured cranial cruciate ligaments, 2 torn menisci, and a ruptured PCL. Tightrope WORKED. Now we have a dog who runs again.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Post-op Day 2 with video - our girl is a nightowl.
Here are three more videos from Day 2. The first one shows some continued reluctance in using her tightrope leg while the other videos show her shedding that resistance and using the leg voluntarily by evening time (after a long nap on the road). You can see improvement, but that she is bearing the majority of her weight on her non-tightrope hind leg (on her left rear leg).
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