Sandara Park: Re: Orthodogs ACL and CCL? Collin -UPDATE

I took Collin in for his pre-surgery bloodwork and the Dr let me know that the surgeon had look at his xrays and thinks he may have to shave off a little bone in order to make the implant sit correctly. Any thoughts?

I get that this conformation issue could lead to the knee injuring itself again 7 years later like it did, but I feel like this is something I should have talked to the first Dr that did the first surgery.

On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 10:43:22 AM EDT, Yvonne McGehee valeska@TurboNet.com [orthodogs] <orthodogs@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Wow, that's really interesting and I would not have expected that. Good
to know! Yvonne

On 6/15/2020 7:16 PM, JOSEPH CRONIN jcronin454@aol.com [orthodogs] wrote:
> My 2.5 year old Vizsla tore up her knee some years back. The plan was to
> do a TPLO but I asked the Dr to contact me once he was inside the knee
> to discuss best procedure. He was open to that. Once he was in the joint
> and took the time to look around he discovered it was the Caudal
> Cruciate, not the Cranial. If he had done the TPLO as planned my dog
> would have been toast since the TPLO depends on an intact Caudal
> ligament and my dogâ€™s was gone! HE thanked me profusely for pushing
> him to look deeply before cutting the bone.
>
> Long story short she had a traditional fish line repair, a thorough
> rehab, and she hunted and field trialed the rest of her life with no
> problem with either knee. After a year youâ€™d never know she had a surgery.
>
> Joe