Sita is "good" - Page 3

Congratulations!  Good news indeed.

For the preliminary x-rays when Sita was 8 months old......
The positioning on the first X-rays were as good as we could make the look. We took 3 and it was the best one. The others looked far worse.

When I got the results, I took her and the X-Ray to two specialists and they both gave me a poor prognoses.

The negative on said she was hiding her pain and she needed surgery or she would live her whole life that way.

The other said that as she aged the hip sockets would fill in and the heads would become flatter for a time she wold be pain free, but by the time she was 2 or three years she would start to exhibit pain. He said that she would have a life filled with pain meds.

They both told me to take her back for another puppy.

Instead, I went with physical therapy - Under all the hair, she is thin. She swam lots of lap in the pool, walked on sand at the beach and I she got to pass on bicycle jogging. We continued with training obedience and protection training and played fetch and went on off leash walks.

The first X-Ray was taken a few days before she came into her first heat, I was told that it didn't matter, but I wonder......


Just so relieved that she grew out of it......

Thanks to all for the kind words and sharing my stress and then relief.

Congratulations

Ibrahim

the prelim xray you posted had terrible positioning? what did it say on the prelim report mild unilateral left ?

Congratulations!  Happy for you and Sita,  Barb

lief

when Sita had her preliminary hip grading, the report back was...........

too shallow on the left, unparrallel on space inbetween ball and socket on the right, excessive laxity both, -
no remodeling or arthiritic changes.

I asked both specialist, if it would be good to take another set of X-rays, they said the positioning was fine.



in between the office visits and the report this is what I can remember.

thats not the type of vernacular OFA uses on prelim reports? ? did you submit it to OFA or just had it looked at locally??

That being said, SitasMom (and anyone else who cares to comment), what do you think about doing prelims again?  Would you?  Seems to have given you nothing but 14 months of grief.  

Just wondering what other people think.

Lief - I submitted them do Dr. Quick who is an OFA hip grader. I paraphrased the results. If you like, I can go and find the paper with the results and type it exactly. Might take a while to find it though.


Tess10 - I would definitely do it again - stress and all.

I was able to put Sita into a physical therapy routine that may have helped her to improve her hips while they were still forming. All the laps in the pool and walks on the beach were not convenient and I'd like to think it made a difference.