Recovering- a look into an elbow break
by Maria K. Duthie c.e.f.m.p.
My five year old Australian shepherd
fell fifteen feet out of the hay loft
down to the cement floor. He hit the
floor and screamed and I ran to him. He
was given arnica montana within a few
seconds of his accident. He was iced
head to toe within fifteen minutes and
we continued the ice off and on for the
next five hours until he was splinted.
The initial x-rays showed a break in the
Ulna at the elbow joint. The original
Vet was unable to splint it due to the
location of the break. If his elbow was
splinted incorrectly he could loose
mobility. The only option for a break in
this area is surgery.
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Journal entry-Dec.5, 2008
This
week I worked on a few dogs with digestive
problems. You normally would not consider
these issues to be massage cases but really
they are. Giving the dogs a chance to relax
and focus past the pain and discomfort can
be very valuable. This is effective for
many problems that you face with your dog.
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Shoulder Lameness
Now that it's summer, and a very wet
summer, our dogs are sometimes running
in mud and can trip in holes. They can
then end up with shoulder lameness
caused by a strain in the neck.
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Equine Lameness
Lameness is not always what it appears.
Sometimes coming up short on a leg is a
true lameness issue. This is very hard
to detect and can often be thought of as
purely stiffness. In some of these
cases, it is the back that is giving the
horse problems. To determine this, first
run your hand down the back on both
sides – feel for differences in
vertebrae, heat or tenderness in the
back.
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Groin, Iliopsoas &
Possible Cruciate Tears
Over the past several months I have seen
a number of dogs, both performance and
active pet dogs, with the same problem
under a variety of names. In all of
these cases, the back muscle directly
behind and below the rib cage on the
affected side is tender and has several
deep muscle spasms. This is the
quadradic muscle and is deep under the
spine and not easy to feel or to get to
at all. In some cases this is all I find
to be causing pain and in others the
abductors or iliopsoas are also
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Diary of a Cruciate
Ligament Tear-A 5 part Mini series on
Jack’s recovery
Jack is a 9-year-old 13” Beagle, weighs
28 lbs., and is walked at least 1/2 hour
everyday. He is in shape and healthy. He
is very straight in the rear especially
in the right rear where he tore his
cruciate ligament.
When you tap on his hock when he is
standing on all fours, his knee would
tip forward. I always knew that he was a
very good candidate for tearing a
cruciate ligament.
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