Tightrope CCL: Strong Dog-Approved!

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.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Sutures, dressing and bruising

Here is a post-op photo of the sutures, dressing and bruising taken on the road back to SF from the surgery in Missouri about a day and a half after the procedure.

She had more bruising than is typical in TR cases. Our follow-up doctor suggested, in not so doctorly terms, that our girl is just "a bleeder". This could very well be the case - we've never had any other experiences with which to benchmark for her.