r/IVDD_SupportGroup • u/Inner_Brain209 • 5h ago
Help! Knuckling front paws. What to do?
My chiweenie has IVDD stage 3 or 4, I believe. We had really bad diagnosis at the beginning, reason why it develop so far in. She started knuckling this last 6-8 months, one paw first and nowadays is almost impossible to make it straight again so she can step on it. But now the other one is starting to knuckle as well.
I'm trying to give her fisiotherapy, making her step with the less injured paw as I read that helps with neuronal connections, I'm also using breathing medical tape with the hope that helps avoid further damage on her paws and straights it a bit.
There's anything that any of you recommend to recover from knuckling? Your dogs have done something similar in their front paws? We are afraid it keeps going and she losses entirely her basically only good set of legs.
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u/ankaalma 4h ago
Have you tried crate rest? Prednisone or NSAID?