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My dog cries and struggles to get up. What do his X-rays mean?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Medium (23 - 60lb) | Male | neutered | 6 months and 2 days old | 32 lbs

Question - Are my pet's hind legs, back & joints normal? Need to understand what his X-Ray means. Issue - My pet cries before getting up. This is happening since 15-20 days now. Also, he takes quite sometime to get up. Attaching his hind legs X-Ray Thank you

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

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Published on June 20th, 2017

These xrays are not good enough quality and the positioning of the limbs is not good either, it will be very difficult to determine if there is a problem according to those xrays. i personally cannot see anything abnormal but you may want to have it sent to an xray specialist.

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