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Honestly, from the beginning I have felt I was primarily dealing with contracture. He does curl his toes at both the proximal and distal joints. I do not have any history - just the assumption that the rescue did not follow up with the dog after surgery and he was put in a crate or run or something ...

So, another strange case. Almost 9yo MN Husky just rescued by a sweet woman mid October. He had a TPLO done on his RH early September/Late August at the rescue prior to being adopted. When his new mom brought him to me he was already in pretty rough shape. "Beginning of muscle contracture with sever...

I am a DVM, CCRT, cVMA in Colorado Springs who is currently in the process of helping a general practice open a new rehab and surgery offshoot. Part of this means I am helping create protocols for new types of treatment options, ie. Conservative treatment of a cruciate injury, post-TPLO protocols, e...

Laurie, Thank you so much for your reply. I am going to see if I can get him in for some rads. It means so much just to know that I am not missing something big and obvious and I feel better now that I kept thinking about fibrotic myopathy in the back of my mind but since I have never actually had a...

I am seeing an 11 year old male neutered lab and we are not getting results with current treatment. He is weak in the rear and has muscle atrophy + a compensatory pain pattern in the front - so far it sounds pretty typical, right? He was diagnosed by another vet with lumbar IVDD and lumbo-sacral spo...

Thank you so much for your reply, Laurie. It helps my confidence a great deal.
Kelly

So I have a client with a 6 year old spayed female mixed breed dog. She weighs about 40 pounds. She presented to me for evaluation after being treated for 2 months with antibiotics for diskospondylitis in the C3-T1 region. According to the owner she has improved some on antibiotic therapy and is als...