re: Dog - disc herniated in back from jump, Updated, bad.

Has vet mentioned whether or not your dog has deep pain. This is the main indicator for severity. To test this they clamp onto your dogs toe with hemostats. If he doesn't yelp or feel then likely there is a ruptured disc with severe spinal cord compression. Prognosis becomes poor at this point even with surgery. Most surgeons will tell you less than 20% chance they will regain motor function. Now there are cases in which dogs have recovered with conservative treatment but like I said it depends on degree of spinal cord injury. Can take months and often with this degree of spinal injury they cannot voluntarily urinate. Have to express bladder several times daily. Sorry to hear keep us posted. As someone mentioned earlier laser treatments work well with these cases.