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Dog limping from old injury. Vet can't find cause. What should I do?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Rottweiler | Male | unneutered | 1 year and 1 month old | 77.1618 lbs

my rottweiler one year old had injury on his left front leg at the age of 4month from then when he ran fast he started whining. earlier my vet gave him some medicines but all after sudden today he limbing his leg again after giving him injection and two medicine carprofen carodyl 100 he is able to put his leg on the ground. Honestly speaking i dont think veterinarian is able to find cause what to do?

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on March 8th, 2018

I realize that it may be hard to find a veterinarian in India who has an x-ray machine. The leg of Rambo needs to be x-rayed to see whether he has bone damage such as a fracture or old fracture. He could also have a sprain. Carprofen is a proper medicine to give, as it is an anti-inflammatory and takes away pain. It may be that the old injury has caused arthritis in the leg and that this will hurt intermittently when he overexerts the leg. For now I would keep giving the medicine your veterinarian prescribed and make sure Rambo rests as much as possible, leash walking only and no jumping and running. If the limping persists you will need to take him back to the vet who may be able to arrange xrays or take him to a veterinary clinic or hospital that has an xray machine. Since you live in Lucknow, there may be a possibility to have the leg xrayed at one of the hospitals for humans, if no vet or vet clinic owns an xray machine.

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