*Kreuzband Probleme beim Greyhound?
Verfasst: Do 12. Jul 2012, 08:33
Das Forum für alle Greyhoundinteressierten.
https://www.info-hz.de/greyhound/
Was mich bezueglich stutzig macht ist:Ich habe inzwischen mehr darueber gelesen und bin auf eine
website gestossen, die sich ausschliesslich mit der Frage
beschaeftigt
ob 'Ops fuer hunde bei Kreuzband verletzungen wirklich noetig sind'
http://tiggerpoz.com/
Prinzipiell sagen sie hier:
- The only way to know if a particular dog needs surgery is to restrict activity and see if the dog begins to re-stabilize the
joint. This kind of injury does not require a rush to surgery. Give your dog 8 weeks of careful restriction, then judge whether he is improving
or not. If he is improving by the end of 8 weeks, he will almost certainly continue to improve in the following months as you
carefully & gradually increase activity. Eight weeks is not the total time of restriction. Recovery is not complete in eight weeks. Recovery
from joint injuries is very slow.
- Start the recovery with a minimum of activity. Watch for a little improvement. Increase activity slowly & cautiously once you see
improvement. Reduce activity to a minimum at any sign of a problem. A decrease in use of the leg or an increase in limping or stiffness
after resting or other symptoms tells you: "Too much activity. Too-much-too-soon for that recovering stifle." Decrease activity to
a minimum if symptoms increase. Then, when the symptoms lessen,
introduce increased activity more slowly.
grobe Übersetzung:1. Most dogs who have surgery eventually walk pretty well. However, most dogs who don't have surgery eventually walk pretty well, too.
Most dogs who don't have surgery develop arthritis in the knee over the years and require medical treatment for the discomfort as they
age. Most dogs who have surgery develop arthritis and require medical therapy for the discomfort at some point, as well. {unten fuer mehr
info bezueglich dieser quote} 2. "An article in...the Journal of the AVMA does not give an overly optimistic evaluation of surgery for cruciate ligament damage. This
paper found that only 14.9% of dogs treated with lateral suture stabilization (LSS), 15% of dogs treated with intracapsular
over-the-top stabilization (ICS) and 10.9% of the dogs treated with tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) regained normal leg
function subsequent to surgery." Journal of the American Veterinary Medical
Association January 15, 2005, Vol. 226, No. 2, Pages 232-236doi:
10.2460/javma.2005.226.232 ....[meaning: most recover to the extent that they have moderately good use of the leg but not full pre-injury
ability].
3. from an article about human knees: Numerous studies with follow-up periods of 5 years or longer do not support the theory that surgical
treatment is the best treatment for restoring knee function. In fact, in 1994 a study examining scintigraphic and radiographic changes in
knees managed surgically versus non-surgically found that 5 years after the injury the reconstructed knees showed markedly greater
degeneration than those treated non-surgically. Other follow-up studies, in 1996 and 1997, have revealed that 10 years
post-operatively reconstructed knees continue to show greater degenerative changes on radiographs than those treated
non-surgically.(ohne literature hinweis)
4. And vets tell me they can't trust people to properly restrict dogs who haven't had surgery. After surgery clients will take restriction
seriously. But if there has been no surgery, then as soon as the limp eases up, the vets say, many people will let the dog return to
normal activities too quickly. This often results in a re-injury. One vet called this failure to restrict properly "The exasperating inability
of owners to follow instructions". -->
Here is a quote from highly respected vet & author
Doctor Mike Richards DVM ----
"There is an old joke about a man walking around the city banging two sticks together. When asked why, he replies 'I'm keeping
elephants away.' When told that there aren't any elephants in the city, the man replies 'See, it's working!' "I feel a little like I'm talking to this man when I ask
veterinarians about the results they get when they attempt to stabilize a dog's stifle joint after cranial cruciate ligament ruptures occur. Most veterinarians strongly advise surgery. Most dogs who have surgery eventually walk pretty well. However, most dogs who don't have surgery eventually walk pretty well, too. Most dogs who
don't have surgery develop arthritis in the knee over the years and require medical treatment for the discomfort as they age. Most dogs who have surgery develop arthritis and require medical therapy for the discomfort at some point, as well. As near as I can tell after
observing a great many of these patients, there isn't much difference between surgically stabilized knees and knees that are allowed to
heal on their own without cranial cruciate ligament surgery. Some dogs in both groups do worse than expected and require more attention. Every
time one of these dogs hasn't had surgery a surgeon is quick to say 'Think how much better this dog would be if surgery had been
performed.' When things go bad, though, few surgeons ever say, 'Think how much better this patient would have been if I hadn't done
surgery.' Instead, they say 'Well it would have been worse if we hadn't tried.' It is hard to be a surgeon without being able to tell
yourself things like that when surgeries don't work well. Unfortunately, even though I sometimes say it too, I think that statement is the veterinary equivalent of beating sticks together to keep the elephants away -- it is very hard to prove that it isn't true but just a little bit of common sense makes a person suspicious."
--- Mike Richards, DVM