Sentences with phrase «normal hips by»

Accepted methods of evaluation are certification of normal hips by the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFA), which is indicated on your dog's official American Kennel Club pedigree after the registered names of his / her predecessors.

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Whatever, Mom: A Hip Mama's Guide to Raising a Teenager by Ariel Gore and her daughter, Maia Swift, is not your normal parenting advice book.

Hip bone mineral densities also increased in the first six months after stopping PrEP and returned to normal levels by a median follow - up time of 73 weeks.

We have found that 95 % of the hips that have been replace by surgeons at OSU return to normal function or near normal function.

Breeders should be able to supply proof that their dogs have been examined by a veterinarian and that their stock has been x-rayed clear of hip dysplasia and evaluated for normal patellae.

This information may suggest progress is being made to decrease the frequency of hip dysplasia, but it may simply be that only radiographs from dogs thought to have normal hips are being submitted to the OFA, while those with dysplasia are being screened out by referring veterinarians.

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.

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.

This surgical procedure eliminates hip pain by reproducing the mechanics of a normal hip joint with a more natural range of motion and limb function.

While it is difficult to eliminate, we can decrease the incidence of hip dysplasia by only breeding dogs with normal hips.

By selecting for individual components of the hip radiograph, you may be more directly selecting for specific «normal - hip» genes.

Unfortunately, out of 100 matings of «normal» dogs in breeds affected by hip dysplasia, 75 percent of puppies will be «normal» but 25 percent, on average, will have hip dysplasia.

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.

The key problem with metal hip implants is that friction created by the normal movement of the device causes the release of microscopic shavings and metal debris into surrounding tissue and blood.