Sports injury

[Kyoko]

Charlie is a fetch queen. She just loves to fetch and she feels as it is a life or death situations. Especially now, there is a competition - Pinot Grigio, she must make sure that she is the one to get the toys. ( Even though Pinot never takes the toys and always allow her to get it.) Well, about few weeks go, she jumped to get a toy, and fell on her side. Since then, she became hesitant to sit. I took her to the vet who examined her thoroughly few days later. ( No x ray ). Dr. Sweeny thought that she was OK, and possibly pulled her muscle.  Since then, she can run, and walk just fine as usual. She can stretch her back and legs. But she stopped jumping on my bed, and seems a bit stiff getting up from laying down, lean forward a little when sitting. Should I get a second opinion?

Update - After the visit to the Holistic Vet

Charlie had x ray done this morning. And it showed 2 small hairline fractures on her pelvis!

Doctore said she is very careful to what she does, sittin, getting up, etc... because of the paiun from this hairline fractures. :-(

Unfortunately, there is nothing she can do about it, so Charlie was given some pin medication and the ordered No Fetching and running for next 6 weeks. ( especillay because she will be on pain meds, and will not feel the pain, she may over do it.)

I am glad that I took her to get a second opinion, and am also glad that she did not have major ingury that will require surgery or anything like that....

I plan to keep her on the leash when she goes outside, even in the yard, since she has tendencies to find something that she can carry and run around anywhere she goes...

[F, Calla & Luca]

I'm sorry to hear that. Hope you get good news tomorrow.

[Kyoko]

She was cleared on her hip today! The vet seems to think that her hesitation is behavioral, meaning that she knows that it was painful before, so she hesitate to do certain things. Also she said that her muscle has weakened from lack of use due to the restriction. So she said to increase the walking distance gradually increasing up to where it was which was about 4 miles per day to build her muscle back up. I am so gld about this...

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Me too. :)

[Kyoko]

Thank you... :-)

[Lynda Kamrath]

And you can get your exercise too!   Four miles!   That is what I walk on our good days.  I do a mile on the treadmill, then a 40-min. water jog, and a 3-mile walk with the dogs in the evening.  That is a good long walk.  The dogs could do it every day, but probably not me.  I need a day off once in a while.