ダニカ・パトリックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ダニカ・パトリックInstagram)「Poor Ella has been limping on and off since February. Initial manual test diagnosis was possible ACL. I took ball throwing and almost all hikes/long walks out of the routine. I also did some cold laser. If her strength was tested with a hike or was chasing my sisters kids around the hot tub for hours, she limped again. BUT…. Would recover and generally has been getting better. • So when I had an X-ray done about a month ago, they wanted to do a TPLO surgery where the cut the bottoms part of leg in half and reset the angle of it. I also asked about stem cells since I had just been to Costa Rica for them and was told there was no evidence that worked. I also had to request a scope first before they cut the leg in half to confirm it was the ACL and was over a 50% tear. It all felt really fast and aggressive. I came home after that appt (having set a surgery date for the next week) and cried. Something didn’t feel right to do that when she was walking right by me perfectly fine. So I reached out to my good buddy @pjchesson who has gone really deep into the health of his dogs and he said I have the guy for you. @shermancanapp • I immediately felt comfortable with his approach, it all made sense, and was so happy to go slower to make sure it wasn’t anything else other than the ACL. Fast forward to yesterday. She had NO ACL issue! It was a different ligament that actually held the leg from sliding back…. Which the TPLO surgery would of made worse!!!!! And she had a whole bunch of other things going on too… which stem cells were great for as well as PRP. We did both knees and harvested fat to be sent to a lab so I have stem cells to use at any point! • This is a post… not to come down on the other doctors, they were doing their best…. but to say - trust your instincts!!! Something didn’t feel right and if I would of let highly educated professionals make me feel like I was irrational… she would be worse off. • I understand I have the money to do all of this and I can make the time… but I am hoping by sharing this story, maybe you can short cut issues and unnecessary expenses by trusting and following your instincts. ☺️❤️🐕」5月31日 23時15分