Possible ACL injury – yellow lab

  • ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    March 17, 2010 at 7:38 pm #204119

    Zander – our 5.5 year old yellow pulls up limp Monday, won’t put any weight on his left rear leg/paw. Examined at my vet yesterday is leaning to blown ACL but she couldn’t confirm as he was too tense to let her manipulate the leg. Going in for sedation/x-rays tomorrow and will know the verdict around 5. Vet says this injury is becomming very common with the lab breed unfortunatley and then rattled off a statistic that there’s a 50% chance the other will have an issue (usually soon after the initial)…

    My question is what options are available nowdays? I did a TPLO surgery on my previous yellow, Payton, in the spring of ’03 and the recovery was quite long – during which we found out he had cancer… My vet referenced another acronym surgery (TTA or something like that) that is more the gold standard now and shorter recovery. What have others done and would you recommend one over the other.

    Zaner is pretty active – fair amout of walks, fetching, swimming 3 seasons of the year and wresling with Chesney (yellow lab step-brother) weighs 87 pounds and is about 5# over ideal so he’s a tall dog.

    What have others done and would you recommend one over the other.

    Out on the web reading about options right now.

    -ted

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    March 17, 2010 at 8:29 pm #78546

    Sorry to hear about the bad news Ted. I hope someone here can offer you some advice. In the meantime, I hope wish you and Zander the best.

    ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    March 18, 2010 at 3:42 pm #78599

    Thanks Don – he’s @ the vet now and hopefully we will have positive news tonight when we reveiw the x-rays and the vet’s analysis.

    -ted

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    March 18, 2010 at 6:45 pm #78609

    I’m sorry to hear it !

    But Good Luck Ted & Zander and keep us posted on how it goes!

    ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    March 19, 2010 at 12:31 am #78629

    So far it’s not bad news – x-rays and evaluation are inconclusive so 2 weeks of rest, meds and limited activity and I hope for the best!

    I do have a groggy puppy who’s staggering around more that usual…

    Thanks for all the well wishes!

    -ted

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    March 23, 2010 at 8:26 pm #78904

    Thanks for the update Ted and I hope the good news continues!

    ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    April 12, 2010 at 5:31 pm #79660

    To say the least it was a difficult couple of weeks of leash only activity I got home last Friday night after a week of traveling and took Zander on a short walk to daycare to get my daughter and all seems good – did a longer walk Saturday and some off leash time yesterday and all seems good so far. The hardest part is keeping his brother from trying to wrestle with him.

    Hopefully all this rest and limited activity will pay off and we won’t have to do anything more.

    Thanks for keeping Zander in your thoughts!

    -ted

    Don Hanson
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    April 12, 2010 at 8:01 pm #79672

    Think about doing alot of water work throughout the summer.

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    April 13, 2010 at 4:35 am #79713

    Good to hear Ted!

    ted-merdan
    Posts: 1036
    April 13, 2010 at 4:30 pm #79741

    Will do Don, great suggestion! Spend time most days retrieving in the river out back, will make it a priority as many days as possible.

    -ted

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    April 15, 2010 at 6:10 pm #79847

    Thanks for the update Ted and I’m glad to hear that Zander is on a succesful recovery!

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