Registered: Oct 2013
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 85
TPLO is in my opinion the surgery to go to for a working/hunting dog with a knee injury. The plate provides more stability for the dog than an Ex-Cap surgery (an alternative) and the recovery time is faster. I am a vet tech and interned in a canine physical therapy center that performed the surgeries and the TPLO dogs recovered faster and were back to themselves quicker. There are specialists you can go to or if you ask around sometimes area vets can do them at a cheaper price. Just be sure you do your research and get someone who has done many before and their clients have good things to say about them and the success rate of the dog. If you do the physical therapy after surgery with your dog it won't take long to get back to normal and I've seen it do a world's worth of difference to dogs that had it and didn't have it. I'd be happy to send you some of the things I did when I worked at the therapy center that you personally can do at home with your dog after the surgery to get them better faster. Cost wise it depends on the area you live and where you are going but if you luck out and find a non-specialist area vet that does them you can probably get the surgery from around $1200 or possibly even less (pain meds and all inclusive). Specialists will charge you $2000 +
Registered: Nov 2012
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 68
I had the TTA done (less invasive than TPLO & same price) on a dog. The cost was $3,000 with an orthopedic vet in St Paul, MN area. We had it done one May several years back, worked a ton on physical therapy at home and by late September he was out running all day up in the UP with no sign of even a limp.
03-26-2014 12:24 AM
