Coping With Cranial Cruciate Ligament Rupture

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Confused about cruciate injury!
by: BK on Wed, Sep 19 2007

I have a 4 year old golden who started limping about 6 months ago. After many visits to my vet I finally landed at the local university to find her injury could be repaired with a $2,800 surgery, followed by another $2,800 for the other leg. (She is not yet having problems with the other leg but they want to do the surgery right away!) I am sincerely heart broken and confused…….I want to do all I can to help her but just cannot affort the $6,000 for the surgery. Has anyone out there had another surgery done other than TPLO? My vet does a cruciate repair surgery for about $900.00, but it is not TPLO and thus, according to experts, is not the best option. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Sun, Jul 05 2009
Hi Just to inform you they now have a stem cell surgery procedure in place provided the ligament for the most part is still intact and not completel...Read
Sun, Jul 05 2009
My 6 year old Bouvier had the TPLO surgery on his left knee in march of this year. It was a major surgery and quite hard on him, but it was very succ...Read
Thu, Dec 06 2007
Be advised that this surgery is highly debatable. I have heard alternate methods which is non-invasive means (no surgery) is also helpful with some s...Read
Wed, Dec 05 2007
Hi there, how's your dog doing now? I'm very interested because our dog, Jake, who is a 2 year old hound, is going for the TPLO surgery tomorrow. H...Read
Wed, Nov 21 2007
Greetings to those people who are experiencing animals with Cruciate Injurys. On some of the posts here I see other outfits or clinics are trying to ...Read

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Confused about cruciate injury! - by BK - (Wed, Sep 19 2007)
I have a 4 year old golden who started limping about 6 months ago. After many visits to my vet I finally landed at the local university to find her injury could be repaired with a $2,800 surgery, followed by another $2,800 for the other leg. (She is not yet having problems with the other leg but they want to do the surgery right away!) [more..]

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