Madison's Story

At the age of five months my German Short-haired pointer, Madison, was involved in a road traffic accident and suffered a fractured pelvis and fractured left leg. She made good recovery from her initial shock, but remained non-weight bearing on the left pelvic limb.

The fracture of the pelvis was stabilised with tension-bank wires and the leg was stabilised with pins. A month later the fractures had healed but she had a femoral head and neck excision performed in an attempt to improve the range of motion of the joint.

Madison was referred to Liz Tyrrell-Asprey by Mr Simmons of Garston Veterinary Group to try and improve movement of the joint. She visited Madison in her home and carried out massage, physiotherapy and Pulsed Magnetic Field therapy. Madison improved tremendously but experienced a set back due to the metal work still in situte in her pelvis, which Liz quickly noticed was causing a problem.

Madison underwent another operation to remove loose screws and then continued with further physiotherapy. Madison's improvement at this stage came on in leaps and bounds and then over a very short period of time deteriorated quite rapidly. Again Liz picked up on this and after x-rays it was found that Madison had developed spurs on the top of the leg. These have now been removed surgically and Madison is enjoying another session (and hopefully the last) of Liz's physiotherapy.

I can honestly say that after each visit from Liz, Madison's range of movement improved noticeably by the following day and she was also mentally much happier. I cannot wait for Madison to be fully recovered, in the very near future, and I have every confidence in Liz's professional ability to do this for her.

Jill Beck