Periodic Limp
He still has a periodic limp. He can go out and romp one time with no ill effect but the next thing you know he will come back in from a potty break with a limp. He started limping halfway through today's walk but was walking wihout a limp when he came back. I have rubbed, squeezed, looked and felt from his toes to his spine when he was limping the worse and when there was no limp. No reaction except loving that I am touching him. His limp doesn't last too long. It also shows up once in a while after a long nap. No repeatable connection with exertion or exercise. Any thoughts? |
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| I've actually been noticing the same thing with my Henry. Sometimes it is the front. Sometimes, it is the back. It comes and goes. It is usually worse when he is just getting up and better after he's been moving. He does run like crazy at the dogpark -- but so does Maggie, and she is never hurt. The Vet told me to stop letting him jump down off the picnic table as that can cause a shoulder injury and he got better when he stopped doing that. Also, one to three days of rest really didn't help. He needed a full two weeks of leash walks only for it to really go away. My Vet said something to consider if if it comes back is the possibility of something called Biceps Tenosynovitis. Here is some more information. I hope that is helpful and not anxiety producing. |
| Ru had this problem in the spring. He was under 2 years at the time and we were puzzled as to why he seemed so stiff. We took him to the vet but of course the periodic limp had disappeared. I noticed it was happening after long runs (I was training for a marathon and used to run with him but never more than a few miles at a time and avoiding pavement, we had also followed the "running with dogs guide and worked up to the longer distances over time). The vet figured it may be a problem in his joints as I had also squeezed and checked him thoroughly. We started him on glucosamine, chondroitin and omega oils and gave him a month off from running and from the dog park. The problem went away for the most part, he loves to run and it is so hard not to take him out with me but if we go it is only for a couple kms now and we keep our dog park visits under an hour. The vet figures he has hip and knee problems that caused the limp, they aren't bad enough to need intervention yet but watching that he gets the right amount of exercise and takes supplements daily seemed to help! p.s. watch to see if he curls his front feet toward his body when he lays down when he lays down, Ru was doing this and putting pressure on his joints and it seemed to contribute to the pain. We were always un curling his paws. |
| Winston's issue is hard to figure out. He can walk with a limp and go right into a dead run then jump up or down. His legs are straight whether he is standing, walking, laying, anything. He doesn't act like he is any sort of pain, he just limps sometimes. Occassionally the limp seems to get better as he walks a little other times it doesn't appear to change. If I can catch the vet available when his limp is bad I will take him back in but the limp could be gone by the time we get there. He certainly isn't showable until we resolve the limp but our concern is more with the limp than it is with showing him. |
| Looking at the bottom of your post winston is just over 9 months? My tip is what they call a growing pain in the legs. He is at that age in the rapid growth stage developement, shooting up in leg all over the place with the boning developing and with the help of the vet and medication to sooth this particular stage I think he will grow out of it soon. Not uncommon in large and giant breeds for the skewwiff developement to cause periodic limps and pain spot in there legs. Time and maturity helps this problem when everything in there body catches up in the developement. To me it sounds like winston is at this stage and eventually all will right itself, in the meantime he does need pain relief in sessions when he has these pain spasms till all catches up with more maturity and all gone away for good.  Keeping fingys crossed this is what it is and sounds like a plauseable reason to his on and off limp for his age. Not uncommon in large breeds at all. |
| What Lisa mentioned is called pano - here's a link: http://leerburg.com/pano.htm We've had several young bassets come through rescue with it too. Edit - if you can catch it on video that would help - so if you get to the vet and he's not limping you will have something to show them. |
| The Pano article is very interesting and sounds a lot like Winston. He is kinda chubby and growing/grew very fast. He's almost as tall as Dexter and weighs about 70 pounds. We coincidentally took him off puppy food recently to contain his weight gain. |
| As Winston is a pup and still growing, I would lean towards pano too. Don't know if you are in a heavily populated tick area, but Lyme disease can cause shifting lameness in dogs, as well as a host of other strange and elusive symptoms. Just something to keep in mind if you start to see other things going on, or if the limp doesn't go away. Laurie and Oscar |
| Gabriel had pano, we switched him to adult food and that took care of it. |
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