Your Pet’s Oral /Dental Health
Today due to better preventive medicine (e.g., vaccinations and heartworm preventives) and better ways to diagnose and treat many diseases our pets are living longer than... Read More
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Early, active use of the limb is necessary. Passive range-of-motion exercises, prescribed 20 to 30 times four times per day, are started immediately and continued until the dog or cat can weight bear at a run, in which case it is doing its own physical therapy. Leash walking and freedom for the animal to move about a confined area are encouraged until suture removal. After 2 weeks postoperatively, active exercise such as running and swimming is encouraged. Animals will ordinarily be toe-touching in 10 to 14 days, partially weight bearing in 3 weeks, and actively using the leg by 4 weeks. When bilateral operations are indicated, they should be done 8 to 10 weeks apart. In some cases, it will be necessary to delay the second surgery even further until active use of the first limb has been achieved. |
