Musculoskeletal Disorders, Chapter 22

  1. What is a "bog spavin?"


  2. What are wind puffs?


  3. How are angular limb deformities treated in young foals?


  4. What is OCD?


  5. What is degenerative joint disease (DJD)?


  6. What type of injury is a "breakdown injury?"

  7. Define:
    1. Quitter

    2. Ringbone

    3. Sheared Heals

    4. Sweeny

    5. Gravel

    6. Thoroughpin

    7. Sidebones


    8. Capped hock

    9. Thrush

    10. Shoe boil

    11. Splints

    12. Bucked Shins

    13. Ringbone


  8. Which equine long bone fractures are associated with a poor or guarded prognosis?"

  9. How would you treat navicular disease?"

  10. How would you treat acute laminitis?"


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Updated October 2007
Prepared by J Atuk-Jones