Canine Therapy for Dogs who are tripods is not only helpful but important. Therapy techniques aim to improve the dog's mobility, strength, and overall quality of life. Your 3 legged pup can lead an extremely normal life!
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Has your precious pooch been slowing down lately or showing signs of discomfort with daily movements? Canine hip dysplasia (CHD) might be to blame. CHD is a condition of the hip joint, a ball-and-socket joint, in which the head of the femur (the “ball”) does not fit properly into the too-shallow acetabulum (the “socket”). Additionally, the ligaments that connect these two bony surfaces together are not as strong.
Like humans, as dogs age their nutritional needs change. When determining how much to feed your dog it is important to consider the number of calories that is right for your dog’s activity level and body condition. Very old dogs tend to be underweight and will need additional calories to gain weight. Quantifying pain: Do you ever wonder if your dog is in pain? PainTrace® has the answer. Traditional methods of assessing your pet’s pain have been based on subjective information, although this is valuable it is not typically able to pinpoint the location of the pain. There is a new revolutionary pain monitoring system that can help better identify where pain is originating and quantify how bad that pain is, it is called PainTrace®. What is stance analysis? Stance analysis is used to determine if proper weight distribution is used throughout your pets limbs. Dogs naturally bear 60% of their weight in the front limbs and 40% in their back limbs. When your pet has any injury and increase pain in a limb it will cause them to off load the weight of that limb to another. Dogs are very good at hiding their pain, making it difficult to determine which limb is actually bothering them. |
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