Hereditary Bone and Joint Diseases in the Dog Osteochondroses, Hip Dysplasia, Elbow Dysplasia

Despite popular, more favorable statistics, hip dysplasia in the United States affects as high as 30% to 40% of dogs, elbow dysplasia 25% to 40%. This book is the first available veterinary text to consider diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and heritability. It is also a vanguard in stressing the crucial aspects of selection when choosing animals for breeding.The authors, who collectively represent more than 100 years of diagnostic and treatment experience in the field, offer clear, well-illustrated explanations of dysplasias and various forms of osteochondrosis. They tailor the text to focus separately on pet, athletic, working, or breeding dogs and explore expectations and costs associated with each category. In addition, they describe the disease progression to osteoarthrosis and the lifetime of pain this can mean for an animal as well as the years of treatment expense for its owner.In Hereditary Bone and Joint Diseases in the Dog, you will find the answers to questions that clients routinely ask, plus the incidence figures and study results you need to support your replies. Text also covers the successes and failures of specific techniques and structured worldwide programs designed to curb these progressive disorders.Achieving control of canine bone and joint diseases has remained an elusive goal. Now this absorbing, new medical book will both direct you in managing the problems and help you participate in the solutions.Wind, Alida is the author of 'Hereditary Bone and Joint Diseases in the Dog Osteochondroses, Hip Dysplasia, Elbow Dysplasia' with ISBN 9783877065488 and ISBN 3877065481.