Clinical outcome and complications of thoracic and pelvic limb stump and socket prostheses.

Objectives: To describe the use, quality of life, compliance, complications, and outcome of animals fitted with stump socket prostheses.

Methods: Medical records of dogs fitted with a stump socket prosthesis were reviewed. Functional outcome, quality of life and complications were retrospectively assessed from an owner questionnaire.

Effects of early intensive postoperative physiotherapy on limb function after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy in dogs with deficiency of the cranial cruciate ligament.

Objective: To determine effects of early intensive postoperative physiotherapy on limb function in dogs after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) for deficiency of the cranial cruciate ligament (CCL).

Animals: 8 adult dogs with CCL deficiency.

Procedure: After TPLO, dogs underwent a physiotherapy program 3 times/wk (physiotherapy group; n = 4) or a walking program (home-exercise group; 4).