{"id":3372,"date":"2015-12-28T05:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T19:53:44","slug":"conservative-management-and-tightrope-ellie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/conservative-management-and-tightrope-ellie\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Management and Tightrope &#8211; Ellie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/traditional-repair-large-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/traditional-repair-large-dog.jpg\" alt=\"conservative management and tightrope\" class=\"wp-image-3267\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/traditional-repair-large-dog.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/traditional-repair-large-dog-500x750.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/traditional-repair-large-dog-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/traditional-repair-large-dog-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ellie, our 55-pound boxer\/pit bull mix, was 3, she tore both ACLs within a couple weeks of each other. Our then vet immediately told us to have TPLO as soon as possible. However, My husband and I took to the Internet to see what we could learn about the whole ordeal. We opted for <a href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/conservative-management-cm\/\">conservative management<\/a> first. We did that for 6 months and she totally restabilized. She wasn&#8217;t limping or really nursing her knees at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Around the 6 month mark, however, her right knee started making a clicking noise every time she moved it. We then found a surgeon who said she had also destroyed her meniscus. He said that having the <a href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/tightrope\/\">tightrope procedure<\/a> could decrease her chances for arthritis later in life. We had the surgery and followed it up with 4 months of no running or jumping. We even blocked off our furniture and all of us sat on the floor and dog beds for that long. After 4 months we let her return to normal (we had been working slowly on increasing her walking, etc) and she&#8217;s doing great! We haven&#8217;t had surgery on her other knee yet because she shows no need for it and our surgeon said to wait until she seemed like she needed it. I think it&#8217;s important to note that this surgeon outright refuses to do the <a href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/tplo\/\">TPLO<\/a> Surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ellie, our 55-pound boxer\/pit bull mix, was 3, she tore both ACLs within a couple weeks of each other. Our then vet immediately told us to have TPLO as soon as possible. However, My husband and I took to the Internet to see what we could learn about the whole ordeal. We opted for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dogkneeinjury.com\/conservative-management-and-tightrope-ellie\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,90,87,19,39],"tags":[50,156,27,52,153,42,77],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conservative Management and Tightrope - Ellie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ellie, 3-year-old boxer\/pit bull mix, tore both of her CCLs. 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