Today, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the obviously clinical podcast. Thank you for listening give us a different review, probably give that to a different podcast, please.

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So today, joining Brian and myself in the studio,

we have Dr. Richard Meeson,

one of our senior lecturers here in orthopedic surgery at the RVC,

and we thought we'd have a little chat about hip dysplasia.

So thank you very much, Richard, for joining us.

Thanks, Tom.

So probably the best place to start is really with hip dysplasia.

So how do these sort of dogs present and when do we see them?

So it's often large breed dogs

like commonly in Labrador or Rot-Vilers, German Shepherds and typically they're presenting

somewhere between five and 12 months of age and people often describe a lameness where by the dogs may look like they're bunny hopping,

so they may bounce on both back legs, they may have a persistent limp,

and often they're quite uncomfortable jumping in out of the cars and sitting down and things like that.

So normally at that stage, owners will take their pets to the vet,

and then they'll start to be sort of doing some investigations.

Can animals bunny hop for other reasons?

Not that commonly.

It tends to bunny hopping is a fairly pathonomonic, typical thing that we see with hip dysplasia.

Generally it would be anything that would be sort of

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