Re: FHO, not using leg on underwater treadmill 5 weeks post sx

[Guest guest]

Pain med, pain meds, and pain meds! You may want to have him a repeat X-ray to make sure there are no spurs. Best of luck these can be tough cases.

FHO, not using leg on underwater treadmill 5 weeks post sx

Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 16:48

Hello,

I am working with a 7 month old lab that had a FHO 5 weeks ago. Any

tips for getting him to use it on the underwater treadmill?? Thanks.

[Guest guest]

Which meds are your favorites for this situation?Pain med, pain meds, and pain meds! You may want to have him a repeat X-ray to make sure there are no spurs. Best of luck these can be tough cases. FHO, not using leg on underwater treadmill 5 weeks post sxFrom: "melissacolling" <melissacollingyahoo (DOT) ca>Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 16:48Hello, I am working with a 7 month old lab that had a FHO 5 weeks ago. Any tips for getting him to use it on the underwater treadmill?? Thanks.

[Guest guest]

Usually it is a combo of NSAIDS and tramadol that does the trick for my patients. Once these using the leg on a regular basis I drop the tramadol and just have the NSAIDS given prior to therapy sessions.

FHO, not using leg on underwater treadmill 5 weeks post sx

From: "melissacolling" <melissacolling@

yahoo.ca>

Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 16:48

Hello,

I am working with a 7 month old lab that had a FHO 5 weeks ago. Any

tips for getting him to use it on the underwater treadmill?? Thanks.

[Guest guest]

We had the same situation with a poodle. We stopped the treadmill and did cold laser, massage and ROM. What really seemed to help him turn the corner though was doing over/under on the cavalettis, esp the under. This dog was small so the owners were able to use cookies to coax him to walk under there bed back and forth at home as well. Also slow ramp walking up and down. Hope this helps.

Pavlakos, CCRP.

-----Original Message-----From: VetRehab [mailto:VetRehab ]On Behalf Of melissacollingSent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:48 PMTo: VetRehab Subject: FHO, not using leg on underwater treadmill 5 weeks post sx

Hello,I am working with a 7 month old lab that had a FHO 5 weeks ago. Any tips for getting him to use it on the underwater treadmill?? Thanks.