Archive for April, 2009

What Causes Hip Dysplasia?

The primal reason of hip dysplasia is genetic but inheritance of this trait is not as simple as a dominance/recessive relationship like we study in high school biology.
Normal dogs can breed and yield dysplastic offspring as the condition may skip generations. Until a test based on the actual DNA can be developed, the best we [...]

What is Hip Dysplasia?

Hip Dysplasia is a comprehensive term that has been utilized to include a spectrum of related developmental hip problems in infants and children, often present at birth. Your physician may have used one of the following names for your child’s problem instead:
* Congenital hip dislocation – where the hip is dislocated at birth
* Congenital dislocatable [...]