I'm hoping that some of you may have gone through a similar situation or be able to offer some advice....
Two and a half years ago our dog tore his CL in his right leg. On vet's advice he had surgery but has never fully healed and I would say that his right leg is about 70% of normal. Doesn't fully weight bear and after a long walk will start to limp. The vet has done numerous investigations to find out why but without much success. He was scheduled to have steroid injections in in next week. And then -
Two days ago he ruptured the CL in his left leg - he is now having to fully weight bear on his weak leg. The vet wants to do surgery on his left leg but feels we have to get the right leg as good as possible - there are signs he may have an infection, not in the joint but some nodule on his knee. They may want to take the pins out of his right leg......
He is 12 years old and given the first surgery wasn't a success and we've spent over 2 years trying to sort it out I am very reluctant to put him through another one - in fact I vowed I wouldn't do it.
Has anyone got experience of conservatively managing this injury - not going through surgery? I don't expect him to recover 100% but given his age I don't think that is too worrisome.
I am totally gutted that this has happened....
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second fully torn cruciate ligament in 12 year old dog
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Localher0 · 17/02/2017 09:09
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