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Originally Posted by kjc  The article I posted states that the use of bone cement can help prevent that from occurring, but may not eliminate the occurrances of pin migration all together. They're seeing less frequency of that happening. It also depends on a lot of factors, like the size of the dog, the extent of the injury/repair, etc... |
yeah i think she had the surgery like 3 years ago as we raised money for the surgery on our yorkie groups to help so maybe they have made some progress. I just went back and read that original thread again and all 3 val, vicki and jaimie posted so hoping she will reach out to them again but the relapses will continue to happen i believe until surgery is done
I ruptured my achilles and i could have been casted for a year if i had diabetes or older or have surgery and walk again immediately so some things you can avoid surgery but it takes a lot longer to heal and you run the risk of reinjury as a re-rupture was a high probability just like a re-injury with neck for scar tissue is a high probability. If a dog can have surgery then that should be the best solution and as of yet cannot see any reason for not having the surgery other than cost which i know it is probably not cheap
as the dog does not have a shunt with those bats and is on steroids and tolerating them to decrease inflammation
Now if a rupture acl injury then i believe in the scar tissue theory and no surgery 80% of the time in toy breeds so sometimes surgery is not necessary but in this case i believe it is necessary