CanEVA PET is a supplement to help in joint health, vitality and mobility. When your pet experiences a musculoskeletal injury, whether a tendon pull, back injury or hip the uninjured side has to counteract the injury so your pet can keep moving. Animals compensate for an injury because bones, muscles and tissue are all connected and designed to work together, when one limb is injured the other three are forced to take up the slack. Supplementing a healthy diet with CanEVA PET during recovery helps your pet compensate without further damage to connective tissues and muscle.
CanEVA PET Elk Velvet Antler (EVA) is a natural source of Glucosamine, Chondroitin, Omegas 3&6, Hyaluronic Acid, Collagen, IGF, EGF, and Amino Acids. The whole molecule is unaltered, and freeze dried to deliver the active and inactive ingredients to metabolize rapidly in the body.
Cruciate Ligament Injury
Large breed dogs or any sports oriented dogs are susceptible to tears of their cruciate ligament. This often means surgery on a long period of recovery, while your dog ‘toe taps’ his way around the house. The most common knee in dogs is a rupture or tear of the cranial cruciate ligament. How does CanEVA PET help your dog recover? The cruciate ligaments are two bands of fibrous tissue located within each stifle (knee) joint. They join the femur and tibia (the bones above and below the knee joint) together so that the knee works as a stable, hinged joint. The active ingredients of CanEVA PET help with joint stability and muscle growth. The knee joint is a hinge joint and is relatively unstable because there are no interlocking bones in the joint. Instead, it is held together by several ligaments, including the cruciate ligaments, which allow it to move back and forth like a hinge, but restrict its side-to-side motion.
An ACL tear can occur by both trauma to the joint or degeneration of the ligaments within the joint. Giving your dog a supplement that helps to slow degeneration of ligaments and strengthen the tendons holding the fragile joint in place will work as both preventive and rehabilitation.
The two most common causes of cranial cruciate rupture are trauma and degeneration of the ligaments within the joint. Acute or traumatic cruciate rupture is caused by a twisting injury to the knee joint. This occurs most often when the dog (or athlete) is running and suddenly changes direction. This places the majority of the body weight on the knee joint, and excessive rotational and shearing forces are placed on the cruciate ligaments. This injury usually affects the anterior or cranial (front) ligament. A cruciate ligament rupture is usually extremely painful and the knee joint becomes unstable, resulting in lameness.
Did you know that dogs who rupture one cranial ligament are more predisposed to rupturing the cranial cruciate ligament in the other knee? Supplementing at the first sign of injury to one side of your dog, may ensure your pet remains balanced and does not become a statistic.