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Originally Posted by msyorktown  Thank you Gemy...more learning and reading for me. Magic is the first to be found to have this?....Wow! |
In this breed and in North America. But that doesn't mean some other BRT has had this and it has been either un-diagnosed or un-reported. Especially if the symptoms are mild.
The definitive diagnosis is supposedly through an MRI, which I had done, after he did not heal up well from a traumatic fall/injury. The MRI did NOT confirm DLSS, this was shortly before his third birthday. But OVC stayed with their diagnosis never the less, based on clinical examination and symptoms.
So nothing definitive on Xrays, I had at 18 mths and 2yrs had hips and elbows done as we do for breeding dogs, again more Xrays and nothing showed up boney wise in terms of changes to the lower lumbar spine or sacrum.
But we continued to have had flare ups after all his physio and water rehab. If I trained him too hard in his advanced obedience, ie taking jumps (which he loves to do) symptoms would re-appear.
Arthritic or boney changes have now been noted on more recent Xrays of his lumbar spine, which would be consistent with DLSS.
Anyhoo that is his story as abbreviated as much as I could do.