Wear Referrals
5-11 Tenters Street
Bishop Auckland
County Durham
DL14 7AD

T: 01388 602707
F: 01388 605660

info@wear-referrals.co.uk

TESTIMONIALS

Tig is a six-year-old female Dalmation dog that only had three legs from birth. She was referred to Wear Referrals with a two-week history of progressive weakness in all legs and neck pain. At the time of presentation Tig was unable to stand and she had severe neck pain. The most likely causes for Tig’s problems were a large slipped disk in his neck, meningitis (she had suffered from this as a puppy) and a possible tumour. A MRI of Tig’s neck (see figure 1) showed the presence of a large slipped disk, which was pressing on the spinal cord. In addition to this two more diseased disks were noted. We decided to operate Tig straight away and removed the slipped disk surgically. The same evening Tig was a lot more comfortable. She needed intensive care for a week after her spinal surgery and received in-house massage and physiotherapy. Tig started to go for hydro-therapy (The Animal Therapy Centre) in the second week after surgery and kept making great progress. Four weeks after her spinal surgery Tig was back to her old self.