Orthopaedics

Services available  include:

Management of joint disease

  • Cranial cruciate ligament rupture by lateral fabellar suture, TPLO  or TTO
  • Management of patellar luxation including distal femoral osteotomy
  • Correction of traumatic luxations including hip, shoulder, elbow, stifle and hock
  • Elbow dysplasia
  • Shoulder, elbow, stifle and hock OCD lesions
  • Joint taps,  lameness investigation and management of immune mediated disease

Fracture management

  • Including locking and non-locking plate fixation
  • Linear and circular external fixation system
  • Fracture revision
  • Bone grafting procedures
  • Management of spinal fractures
  • Management of pelvic fractures and sacroilial luxations
  • Management of facial fractures

Limb deformities

  • Acute correction for developmental limb deformities including plate or external fixation
  • Limb lengthening procedures
  • Revision of fracture malunions
  • Management of ante brachial limb deformities by ulnar osteotomy

Tendon/Ligament/Muscle disease

  • Shoulder ligament and tendon disease: biceps, medial and collateral ligament, supraspinatus muscle
  • Achilles tendinopathy
  • Muscle, tendon and ligament ruptures
  • Muscle (and nerve) biopsy

Prophylactics procedures

  • Juvenile pubic symphysiodesis
  • Triple/double pelvic osteotomy

Salvage procedures

  • Joint arthrodesis: carpus, shoulder, elbow, hock, stifle
  • Excision arthroplasty (hip, radial head, shoulder, digit)
  • Amputation: forequarter, coxofemroal, hemipelvectomy