Just like Frankie’s ligament, I was also torn. I didn’t want to subject him to an unnecessary surgery, a recovery that ...

The CCL is similar to a human’s ACL. It is located behind a dog’s stifle joint, like our knee, and connects the femur bone to the shin bone in the dog’s hind legs. A CCL tear is similar to ...

Diesel tore his CCL, the canine equivalent of a human ACL, about five months ago ... Boncz is collaborating with a university to study how dog knee braces impact recovery.