{"id":4865,"date":"2016-11-01T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:57:23","slug":"4865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2016\/11\/01\/4865\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiography students get a visit from a special patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Betty Rose just turned five in September. She ruptured her ACL in April playing fetch and \u2013 oh, yeah\u2026Betty Rose is a golden retriever.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Miller is Betty\u2019s owner and one of our radiography instructors in Kearney. They stopped by the Health Science Education Complex (HSEC) on their way home from Betty\u2019s last PT session for some extra TLC from the junior radiography students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students\u2019 eyes lit up when I asked if they wanted to meet Betty Rose,\u201d said Miller. \u201cIt\u2019s a great stress reliever for them and Betty loves the belly rubs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rupture had required TPLO (tibial plateau leveling osteotomy) surgery \u2013 where they cut the tibia, readjust the angle of the tibial plateau and then anchor the new position of the tibia back into position with hardware. Betty\u2019s rehab never progressed to complete healing, though, so the orthopedic surgeon reassessed her.<\/p>\n<p>A rare complication of pivot shift (thrust during medial deviation of the tibial crest), forced the surgeon to perform a revision. They tightened up her joint capsule and ligament with sutures and removed the plate to make the placement of the sutures more accurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to keep the plate!\u201d Ellie said with a smile. \u201cBetty\u2019s doing very well, now, and already at a higher function than with her previous surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Those eight sets of healing hands must have helped the mending process!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4869\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4869\" class=\"wp-image-4869 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays-1024x466.jpg\" alt=\"Betty's radiographs\" width=\"640\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays-1024x466.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays-120x55.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/10\/xrays.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty&#8217;s radiographs<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty Rose just turned five in September. She ruptured her ACL in April playing fetch and \u2013 oh, yeah\u2026Betty Rose is a golden retriever. Ellie Miller is Betty\u2019s owner and one of our radiography instructors in Kearney. They stopped by the Health Science Education Complex (HSEC) on their way home from Betty\u2019s last PT session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":4867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,6,45,46,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-extended-family","category-frontpage","category-health","category-mits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4865\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}