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bilateral hip dysplasia

mischa's xrayso now we know what we’re dealing with .. bilateral hip dyslasia in her hips and hypermetria (which is brain related and effects her front paws, causing her to ‘pony step’ exaggerate her steps).

we don’t know much about either, but have started to do alot of googling… has anyone had first had experience with this in their dog before? more importantly, has anyone had experience with triple pelvic osteotomy for hip dysplasia? vitamin c and glucosamine for cartilage?

of course, we don’t want her to get worse .. any advice is appreciated.

good news, her ears were cleaned out properly (when we got her she already had a tonne of ear hair) and her desexing went absolutely fine 🙂 she was still really out of it when we picked her up, she’s slept alot of the night away already but seems to be back to her normal silly self.

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C Santos • June 24th, 2005 at 7:33 am

Aw, sorry to hear about the dog Tracey; always consider the tradeoffs:

– surgery has always it’s intended risks, and the best way to minimize these is to have physicians or vets with plenty of experience in this. Experienced surgeons make all the difference and for an experienced doctor, surgical procedures can be very low-risk and well-managed…you want someone who sees this as a routine rather than a practice case.

Dysplasia from relatives dogs, can be really bad…and progressive from the arthritic damage. Not a pretty picture, nor one likely ameliorated with just vitamin C (no matter what the herbalists would have you believe).

Medication or medicine for a physicial defect alone (vitamin c and/or glucosamine) are unlikely to help in the long term as this is a physical deformity, and it’s due to chronic joint stress and inflammation. This surgery seems somewhat routine from the sounds of it, I’d find someone good and just go for it.