We also arrived home in SF this day, and include some video of her appetite - the one personality trait truly unaffected by her orthopaedic ordeal!
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 3 - morning
Our girl is doing some stretching and perking up in spirit. She's using both legs on her own to walk, but compensates while sitting. To sit, she takes all the weight off her tightrope leg, leaving out in front and to the side. She's getting around her cone to lick her sutures, so we ended up getting her a longer cone.
We also arrived home in SF this day, and include some video of her appetite - the one personality trait truly unaffected by her orthopaedic ordeal!
We also arrived home in SF this day, and include some video of her appetite - the one personality trait truly unaffected by her orthopaedic ordeal!
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