Though my observation was made more than twenty years ago, it was rejected by most researchers and educators. My elation over these publications was short lived as I began to recall the numbers of beautiful canines that had been euthanized over the past two decades. The number of breed-lines that are now extinct. This was a canine genocide. Now that CHD is a systemic condition we can get on with the business of saving these canines from this crippling disease.
Lets begin eliminating some myths that have prevailed over the past fifty years.
Unilateral CHD, does not exist. One normal hip and the other subluxted is not CHD this is simply an injury. Since the experts recognize that all joints can be involved in slow mineralization why then one hip will remain normal. Since collagen synthesis is involved in CHD, another systemic problem, why will one hip and not the other be involved. CHD must be in both hip joints.