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 hip – where the hip is in place at birth, but dislocates fully when stressed
* Congenital subluxatable hip – where the hip is in place, but dislocates partially when stressed
* Acetabular dysplasia – where the hip socket is shallow and remains shallow, so that the hip is unstable
* Developmental dysplasia (or dislocation) of the hip – a more recent term, to reflect the fact that there are instances that have apparently normal hips at birth, but develop the problem in the first year of life
All the above related to hip dysplasia in humans. Still it is similar in dogs.
It is diagnozed the same way, called same names and treated similarly.
Read more about canine hip dysplasia treatment on the other pages and posts on this blog.
