Sentences with phrase «as normal hips»

Breed only bitches eighteen months of age or older with OFA certified or preliminary evaluation as normal hips, in good health, free of communicable diseases, having none of the faults listed above in Section 2, and not more than two out of three consecutive seasons.

Not exact matches

This pouch can be attached to the hip belts of carriers irregardless of the belt width and can also be used as on normal belts or just as a small sling bag.

This finding is more useful in older children as 25 % of infants with normal hip exams may also have asymmetric creases.

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

After controlling for factors such as age, gender, smoking status, and physical activity, the researchers found that people who had normal BMIs but who also had «central obesity» — defined as a high waist - to - hip ratio — had a 22 % increased risk of death from all causes, compared to people with normal BMIs and healthier waist - to - hip ratios.

Whether they know it or not, many women have a weak pelvic floor that may manifest as SI joint dysfunction, hip pain, or just accepting «sneeze pee» as normal.

Lie on your back with both feet on the floor and push your hips up to the ceiling as normal.

A femoral head ostectomy (FHO) for the hip is an option that was described in the scientific literature about 50 years ago, but no conclusive studies with objective evidence, such as recent reliable force plate gait analysis data, are available that document a return to «normal» function as is available following total hip replacement (THR) surgery.

VCA Animal Specialty Center's Surgery Department performs Total Hip Replacement (THR) as a treatment for coxofemoral joint disease as a means of restoring normal joint function and to eliminate pain.

This is a pretty healthy dog who may suffer from the normal dog ailments such as hip and joint issues as he gets older, but none of the debilitating or fatal health issues often found in other breeds.

A study of German shepherds found that overweight puppies were almost twice as likely to develop hip dysplasia as their normal - weight counterparts.

Dogs with hip dysplasia are typically normal at birth, but they start to show symptoms as young as five months old.

Puppies from parents that have hip dysplasia will be two times more likely to develop the disease as puppies born to parents with normal hips.

Most dysplastic dogs are born with normal hips but due to genetic and possibly other factors, the soft tissues that surround the joint start to develop abnormally as the puppy grows.

Using a seven point scoring system, hips are scored as normal (excellent, good, fair), borderline dysplastic, or dysplastic (mild, moderate, severe).

He was amazed and I was thrilled as I was expecting to hear him with the normal warning about his hips.

Complications include shortening of the operated limb, with prominence of the greater trochanter, decreased range of motion in the pseudoarthrosis as compared to the normal hip, muscle atrophy, and impaired function.

The initiating events that trigger the inflammatory cascade usually fall into one of two categories, either: 1) abnormal forces imposed on normal joints such as fractures, sprains, obesity, direct trauma, etc.; or 2) normal forces imposed on abnormal joints such as elbow or hip dysplasia, osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD), patellar luxation, ununited anchoneal process, fragmented coronoid process, cranial cruciate ligament rupture or tear, and other congenital or genetic conformational cartilage, bone or joint defects.

Before they are bred, bitches should be a minimum of 24 months of age and their hips certified as normal by OFA or a Board Certified Radiologist.

If a total hip replacement is inevitable, the animal might as well enjoy a pain free joint and a normal life as soon as possible.

A dog can be dysplastic in one or both hips, can have a shallow socket and a normal ball, a malformed ball and normal socket, a shallow socket and malformed ball, a misaligned joint, loose ligaments, or a combination of these structural problems complicated by environmental factors such as rate of growth, level of nutrition, and exercise.

The 40 dogs described as «normal» at 2 years of age all had some «minimal or mild degenerative changes» by 9 years of age, and those 22 dogs diagnosed as dysplastic (lax joints in the hip - extended view) at 2 years had the same mild or minimal changes.

Chondrodysplasia, a heritable skeletal disorder that has been incorporated into the phenotype of many dog breeds [13], predisposes English bulldogs to skeletal disorders such as hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, luxating patella and shoulders, intervertebral disk disease, cruciate ligament rupture, hemivertebra, torsional pelvic deformity and problems with normal copulation and parturition [14, 15].

Elbows - In comparison, while hips are rated «Excellent,» «Good,» «Fair,» «Borderline,» or different grades of dysplastic, elbows are rated only as «Normal» (Perfect), and then different grades of dysplastic.

Changing feeding protocols and managing excessive environmental stress will probably not prevent hip dysplasia in genetically predisposed dogs, just as reasonable overnutrition and activity will probably not cause hip dysplasia in genetically normal dogs.

Thank goodness we began our dogs natural dog food diet as a puppy and she subsequently grew out of having loose hip joints and in fact they grew like any normal dog's hips would.

Magnification serendipidously had a desirable affect as it made abnormal hip joints look proportionally more abnormal relative to normal joints.

If we were to improve diagnostic techniques in the study of ED as we have with the use of the PennHIP Distraction Index for hip joints, we could differentiate between dogs in the «normal» category, and improve our selection immensely.

If, as Dr. Olsson has said, osteochondrosis is the description of a general disorder in which HD is one manifestation, and elbow problems are others, then perhaps by selecting for normal hips, our better American breeders were unwittingly and unintentionally selecting dogs with fewer genes for osteochondrosis of any sort, including in elbows.