Lecture 20: Lameness Flashcards
Why do flexion tests
Irritates the nerve ends in the FIBROUS JOINT CAPSULE and exaggerates lameness
What is the best gait to evaluate lameness
Slow trot
What is the best surface to evaluate a lameness
Asphalt
What is a grade 1 lameness
Lameness is difficult to observe and is not consistently apparent
What is grade 2 lameness
Difficult to observe at walk or when trotting in straight lighten but consistent when weight-carrying, circles, incline, hard surface
What is a grade 3 lameness
Lameness is consistently observable at trot under all circumstances
What is a grade 4 lameness
Lameness is obvious at a walk
What is grade 5 lameness
Minimal weight bearing in motion and/or at rest or complete inability to move
what is this and what is it commonly attributed to
Club foot typically problem with upper forelimb- shoulder or elbow
Shoulder OCD
Head goes down on what leg
Sound
Up on lame limb
Which leg lameness increases in a circle
Inside leg
In a circle normally which limb lands harder
Outside
For hindlimb lameness what happens to lame hip
Goes higher and drops faster
With hindlimb lameness what happens on contralateral front limb
Will land harder
Ex: horse is RH lame what front limb is landing harder
Left
For multi limb lameness what should you observe in forelimbs
Straight and in circle
Bilateral stride is short and stiff
For hindlimb multi limb lameness what should you watch
Straight, going by, stride shortens, bilateral back pain
What imaging technique is very useful for multi limb lameness
Scintigraphy
How can you evaluate heel pain
Stand frog on hoof knife handle for 30 seconds and pick up other limb
What flexion tests are these
left: digital flexion test
Right: carpus
what flexion tests are these
Left: elbow
Right: shoulder
what is this flexion test testing
Hip, stifle, digits, sacroiliac joint
what flexion tests are these
Left: extension of stifle/SI
Right: abduction of stifle/SI
When blocking joints or peripheral nerves you start ___ and move ___
Distal, proximal