Flexural and Angular Deformities Flashcards
What is an angular deformity?
Postural deformities in the frontal plane of the limbs
What are causes of congenital deformities?
Uterine malposition Genetics Teratogenic agents Mare nutrition Viral/bacterial infection in mare Mare goiter Sudan grass ingestion
What are the attachments of the inferior check ligaments?
From deep digital flexor tendon to the proximal end of metacarpal
What are conservative methods for treating a carpal flexural deformity?
Exercise — stretching of tendons
Shoeing — toe extensions (pushes the fetlock back)
Splints
Oxytetracycline —> binds Ca leading to muscle relaxation
Cast
What is another name for contracted tendons causing deformity at the distal interphalangeal joint?
Club-foot
Treatment for club foot?
Controlled exercise
Reduce food intake
Trim heel toe extension
Inferior check ligament desmotomy
How can you analyze the pivot point ?
Radiograph limb
Cellulose acetate overlay —> trace bone outlines
Bisect the long bone axis
OR
Place lines through joint space
Measure angle
What do you call a lateral deviation of the limbs?
Valgus
Clinical signs of club-foot?
“Boxy” appearance
Growth at hells
Break in hoof pastern angle
Weight bearing on toe
Surgical treatment of a extensor tendon rupture is ______________ and the treatment for club foot is __________
Superior tendon desmotomy; inferior check tendon desmotomy.
What do you call a medial deviation of the limbs
Varus
How can you diagnose angular limb deformities?
Observation
Limb manipulation
Radiographs
How does a flexor tendon rupture appear and what might be another ddx for this?
Flexion at hock —dropped forward
Radial nerve paralysis —> knuckling
What surgical method inhibits growth at the physis?
Transphyseal bridging
—screws and cerclage wire
—staples
What are causes of articular deviation ?
Periarticular laxity Incomplete ossification of carpal bones Hypothyroidism Limb confirmation —overloading —Physeal (trauma/infection) Twins