Matt Lang Webboard User Reg: 07-11-2008
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Do any of you guys have experience with hip dysplasia treatments? Django is an 80 lb, 9 yr old mixed breed in good health. He’s half aussie, 1/4 lab, and 1/4 a bunch of other breeds.
Up until mid-March he hadn’t really shown any obvious problems, and is in good shape. He does/did agility weekly, loves swimming and playing fetch, occasionally a little dock diving.
The last two months he’s been recovering from an injury, and now after his vet visit and xrays we know that the symptoms with his rear right leg have been from tight muscles in his groin, which is being caused by hip dysplasia. Apparently it looks pretty bad in the xrays. He is currently responding well to his anti-inflammatory meds and we’re working out his treatment plan: injections and pain pills vs hip replacement. I’m just wondering if anybody has had any experience with any of these treatments.
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Backstory - in mid-March we were playing fetch in the park and he kind of twisted badly catching the ball one time. He seemed ok but the next day he couldn’t do agility in his class. He tried but he was having obvious trouble. Over the next few weeks he seemed to have a stiff back but he’d rest for a day or two and then act ok, but my mistake - I’d assume he was alright and take him to do something and he’d re-tweak it. Then the back stopped being stiff but he started have rear right leg trembling on walks. He’d lay down at home for 5-10 min and then be normal again.
My hunch is that as he laid around from the back injury, his leg muscles atrophied just enough that the hip dysplasia started causing the groin muscles to spasm, but everything was “kind of ok” while the leg muscles were strong.
Matt Lang Webboard User Reg: 07-11-2008
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Backstory - in mid-March we were playing fetch in the park and he kind of twisted badly catching the ball one time. He seemed ok but the next day he couldn’t do agility in his class. He tried but he was having obvious trouble. Over the next few weeks he seemed to have a stiff back but he’d rest for a day or two and then act ok, but my mistake - I’d assume he was alright and take him to do something and he’d re-tweak it. Then the back stopped being stiff but he started have rear right leg trembling on walks. He’d lay down at home for 5-10 min and then be normal again.
My hunch is that as he laid around from the back injury, his leg muscles atrophied just enough that the hip dysplasia started causing the groin muscles to spasm, but everything was “kind of ok” while the leg muscles were strong.
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Do any of you guys have experience with hip dysplasia treatments? Django is an 80 lb, 9 yr old mixed breed in good health. He’s half aussie, 1/4 lab, and 1/4 a bunch of other breeds.
Up until mid-March he hadn’t really shown any obvious problems, and is in good shape. He does/did agility weekly, loves swimming and playing fetch, occasionally a little dock diving.
The last two months he’s been recovering from an injury, and now after his vet visit and xrays we know that the symptoms with his rear right leg have been from tight muscles in his groin, which is being caused by hip dysplasia. Apparently it looks pretty bad in the xrays. He is currently responding well to his anti-inflammatory meds and we’re working out his treatment plan: injections and pain pills vs hip replacement. I’m just wondering if anybody has had any experience with any of these treatments.
Hi, Matt,
I have saved a couple of links to detailed and authoritative outlines of hip dysplasia, the various treatments (including the two main types of surgery), other factors besides genes that can affect the course of HD, etc.
I don't have recent first-hand experience, so I hope others who do have it will chime in too.
P.S. Post back if you have any questions about researching the details of treatments outlined in the two links -- I save a lot of info from reliable sources.
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