There is increasing interest in pathology of the lumbosacral and sacroiliac joints giving rise to stiffness and/or lameness and decreased performance in equine sports medicine. Pain arising from these regions can be problematic alone or in conjunction with lameness arising from other sites (thoracolumbar spine, hind limbs, or forelimbs). Localization of pain to this region is critically importa...

Osseous trauma of the fetlock is a potentially important cause of lameness in mature sports horses, and although the diagnosis may be achieved by radiographic examination in some horses, nuclear scintigraphy or magnetic resonance imaging may be required for other horses. Authors’ address: Centre for Equine Studies, Animal Health Trust, Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 7UU, UK; e-...

Lameness detection can be challenging in dogs, as reflected in the reported low inter-rater agreement when visually assessing lameness. The aim of this study was to use an inertial sensor-based system to detect and quantify induced distal and proximal limb disturbances mimicking supporting and swinging limb lameness in dogs trotting on a treadmill by measuring vertical head and pelvic movement ...

OBJECTIVE To compare milk yield among cows classified as nonlame, moderately lame, and lame and to examine the relationship between severity of lameness and milk yield in cows classified as lame during the first 100 days after parturition. DESIGN Longitudinal study. ANIMALS 465 Holstein cows. PROCEDURE Cows were examined weekly during the first 100 days after parturition and assigned a la...

Background There is relatively little literature on elbow disease in the horse. The only published reports on soft tissue conditions describe collateral ligament and biceps brachii injuries. Case presentation A three-year old Thoroughbred gelding presented with a history of acute onset right forelimb lameness of less than one week duration, one month after commencing training in a National Hu...

A school lameness survey was done on a sample of primary school children of the age 7 13 years in Khartoum province during late 1982. The main objectives were to calculate the prevalence of residual paralysis due to poliomyelitis among the study population and to evaluate some of the disease determinats such as age of onset; sex, urban rural differences and seasonal variation. The method used d...

BACKGROUND In the oligofructose (OF) model of sepsis-related laminitis (SRL), digital hypothermia ("cryotherapy") initiated before the onset of clinical signs is reported not only to limit lamellar injury, but also to cause marked inhibition of lamellar inflammatory signaling. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Because hypothermia also has been reported to be protective when not initiated until the onset ...

Fibrotic contracture of the canine infraspinatus muscle (FCIM) is considered a rare musculotendineous disorder mainly affecting hunting dogs. After an acute onset of a painful non-weight bearing lameness, the initial pain and lameness improve over a period of one to four weeks, after which a characteristic circumducted gait abnormality develops in the forelimb. The initial injury to the infrasp...