Analyze Diet

Topic:Joint Health

Joint health in horses involves the study of anatomical structures such as cartilage, synovial fluid, ligaments, and bones that contribute to the function and mobility of equine joints. Research in this area focuses on understanding the physiology of equine joints, the mechanisms of joint disorders, and the effects of wear and tear over time. Common joint issues in horses include osteoarthritis, synovitis, and joint effusion, which can impact performance and quality of life. Diagnostic techniques often involve imaging, synovial fluid analysis, and clinical evaluation to assess joint condition. This page compiles peer-reviewed research studies and scholarly articles that explore the anatomy, pathology, diagnostics, and therapeutic approaches related to joint health in horses.
Intra-articular corticosteroid therapy in the horse.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    October 15, 1980   Volume 177, Issue 8 710-713 
Owen RR.Physiologic features of the equine diarthrodial joint and the effects of intra-articular corticosteroid therapy were investigated. It was concluded that intra-articular injection of corticosteroids may be beneficial when lesions are confined to soft tissues of the joint, excluding injuries involving joint laxity. Rest following therapy is important.
Synovial fluid.
Veterinary medicine, small animal clinician : VM, SAC    September 1, 1980   Volume 75, Issue 9 1403-1406 
Coffman J.No abstract available
Disease of the metacarpophalangeal joint and metacarpus.
The Veterinary clinics of North America. Large animal practice    May 1, 1980   Volume 2, Issue 1 33-59 doi: 10.1016/s0196-9846(17)30174-x
Haynes PF.No abstract available
Effect of hyaluronic acid in naturally occurring and experimentally induced osteoarthritis.
American journal of veterinary research    April 1, 1980   Volume 41, Issue 4 568-574 
Auer JA, Fackelman GE, Gingerich DA, Fetter AW.Effect of intraarticular injections of hyaluronic acid was evaluated in two groups of horses, using force plates to assess quantitatively the degree of lameness observed. In six horses, chip fractures were created surgically on the dorsomedial aspects of both radial carpal bones. After the horses were trained for 30 days, 40 mg of hyaluronic acid was injected intraarticularly into the limb showing the greater degree of lameness. Horses were worked for 2 more weeks and then were evaluated. A highly significant (P less than 0.01) increase in weight bearing on the treated limb was observed. Ten h...
A technique for intra-articular injection of the equine tarsometatarsal joint.
Veterinary medicine, small animal clinician : VM, SAC    February 1, 1980   Volume 75, Issue 2 265-270 
Brown MP, Valko K.No abstract available
Plasma and synovial fluid lysozyme activity in horses with experimental cartilage defects.
American journal of veterinary research    November 1, 1979   Volume 40, Issue 11 1531-1536 
Torbeck RL, Prieur DJ.Cartilaginous defects were created in the radiocarpal joints of 12 horses. Synovial fluid cytologic features, lysozyme activity, and beta-glucuronidase activity were monitored for 16 days. A comparison was made of plasma lysozyme and beta-glucuronidase activity and of synovial fluid lysozyme, beta-glucuronidase, and leukocyte concentrations. Plasma lysozyme was found to be independent of synovial fluid lysozyme activity. Synovial fluid lysozyme was significantly increased (P less than 0.001) in all joints with surgically induced defects (group I) compared with controls (arthrocentesis done; gr...
Diagnosis and treatment of septic arthritis in the horse.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    October 1, 1979   Volume 175, Issue 7 701-704 
Leitch M.No abstract available
[Protein and enzymatic activity levels of the synovial fluid in the horse].
Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde    October 1, 1979   Volume 121, Issue 10 521-531 
Poncet PA, Gerber H, Tschudi P, Diehl M.No abstract available
Firing horses.
The Veterinary record    September 29, 1979   Volume 105, Issue 13 312 doi: 10.1136/vr.105.13.312
Fraser AC.No abstract available
A case of carpal intersynovial fistula in a horse.
Equine veterinary journal    April 1, 1979   Volume 11, Issue 2 90-92 doi: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.1979.tb01311.x
Llewellyn HR.A tentative diagnosis of a fistula between the tendon sheaths of the right extensor carpi radialis and the intercarpal joint was confirmed by positive contrast radiography following injection of sodium diatrizoate into the joint. Surgical removal of a tag of synovial membrane and repair of the fistula was carried out. Post surgical treatment included mild exercise to prevent adhesions within the sheath. A month following discharge, contrast radiography revealed no communication between joint and tendon sheath. At this time mild distension of the sheath was relieved by aspiration and it did not...
Joint infection in foals.
Modern veterinary practice    February 1, 1979   Volume 60, Issue 2 140-142 
Rooney JR.No abstract available
The intra-articular use of sodium hyaluronate for the treatment of osteo-arthrosis in the horse.
New Zealand veterinary journal    January 1, 1979   Volume 27, Issue 1-2 5-8 doi: 10.1080/00480169.1979.34585
Rose RJ.No abstract available
Arthrodesis of the proximal interphalangeal joint in the horse: a surgical treatment for high ringbone.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    November 15, 1978   Volume 173, Issue 10 1364-1369 
Schneider JE, Carnine BL, Guffy MM.No abstract available
[Normal cellular values of the synovial fluid in the horse].
Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde    November 1, 1978   Volume 120, Issue 11 579-589 
Poncet PA, Gerber H, Tschudi P, Diehl M.No abstract available
Surgical approach for medial meniscectomy in the horse.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    September 15, 1978   Volume 173, Issue 6 766-769 
Valdez H, Adams OR.After preliminary studies on cadavers, a surgical approach was developed for removal of the medial meniscus, offering maximal exposure and minimal trauma to the articular surfaces of the medial tibial plateau and femoral condyle. Medial meniscectomy was then performed on 10 clinically normal horses that had been given general anesthesia. Nine horses were euthanatized at intervals of 1 to 6 months, and the joints were evaluated grossly and histologically. (One horse will be examined 1 year after surgery). Medial meniscus tears were diagnosed in 5 horses; medial meniscectomy was done on 4 horses...
Infective arthritis of the elbow joint in horses.
The Veterinary record    September 9, 1978   Volume 103, Issue 11 227-229 doi: 10.1136/vr.103.11.227
Edwards GB, Vaughan LC.Six horses were found to have infective arthritis of one elbow joint. The history, and presence of a small wound on the lateral aspect of the elbow suggested the condition was trauma induced. Two horses recovered following joint lavage under general anaesthesia and antibiotic therapy. The joint changes found post mortem in the others were characteristic of an infective arthritis.
[Incidence and clinical evaluation of osteochondrosis dissecans (O.d.) in the equine talocrural joint].
DTW. Deutsche tierarztliche Wochenschrift    June 5, 1978   Volume 85, Issue 6 223-226 
Zeller R, Hertsch B, Samy MT.No abstract available
Treatment of traumatic arthritis in the horse with intra-articular orgotein (palosein).
Equine veterinary journal    April 1, 1978   Volume 10, Issue 2 122-124 doi: 10.1111/j.2042-3306.1978.tb02235.x
Ahlengard S, Tufvesson G, Pettersson H, Andersson T.A total of 134 horses of various breeds were treated for aseptic arthritis of traumatic origin using Orgotein (Palosein). The drug was injected into 192 affected joints of these animals. Recovery rates of 94 per cent were recorded in cases which had shown lameness for less than 2 months before treatment commenced and 49 per cent in those lame for longer than 2 months.
Arthroscopy in the diagnosis of equine joint disease.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    February 1, 1978   Volume 172, Issue 3 263-268 
McIlwraith CW, Fessler JF.No abstract available
Osteochondrosis in the horse. I. A clinical and radiologic investigation of osteochondritis dissecans of the knee and hock joint.
Acta radiologica. Supplementum    January 1, 1978   Volume 358 139-152 
Strömberg B, Rejnö S.The clinical and radiologic features of osteochondritis dissecans in the knee and hock joint of horses are described. The material includes 91 horses, of which 43 had the lesion in one or both knee joints, and 48 in one or both hock joints. It was found that osteochondritis dissecans of the knee joint was more common than the one in the hock joint in thoroughbreds and halfbreds, while the lesion in the hock joint was most common in standardbred trotters. In the knee the lesion was most often located to the lateral trochlear ridge. In the hock joint the predilection site was the intermediate ri...
Osteochondrosis in the horse. II. Pathology.
Acta radiologica. Supplementum    January 1, 1978   Volume 358 153-178 
Rejnö S, Strömberg B.An investigation was made of the pathology of osteochondritis dissecans of young foals and horses with clinical signs of the lesion. A randomly selected material of fetuses and young foals without clinical signs was also examined. It was demonstrated that osteochondritis dissecans is primarily a cartilaginous disease, as previously described in pigs and dogs. Thickening, disturbance of endochondral ossification, degeneration and necrosis of the cartilage were the four main features of osteochondritis dissecans. Cracks and fissures occurred in the degenerated and necrotic parts of the cartilage...
A degenerative joint disease in the horse.
New Zealand veterinary journal    November 1, 1977   Volume 25, Issue 11 321-335 doi: 10.1080/00480169.1977.34445
Wyburn RS.No abstract available
Treatment of equine shoulder sweeny with intra-articular corticosteroids.
Veterinary medicine, small animal clinician : VM, SAC    June 1, 1977   Volume 72, Issue 6 1077-1079 
Miller RM, Dresher LK.No abstract available
Scanning electron microscopy of equine synovial membrane.
American journal of veterinary research    May 1, 1977   Volume 38, Issue 5 681-684 
Shively JA, Van Sickle DC.The scanning electron microscopy of synovial membrane from the radiocarpal and intercarpal joints near the lateral and medial borders of the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis muscle was studied in 5 ponies. Three different morphologic types of synovial membrane were observed. Type 1 synovial membrane was folded and had a surface mat of fibers separated by 1- to 5-micron-diameter holes. The 2nd and 3rd types of synovial membrane were both villous. The surface of type 2 synovial membrane was fibrillar but the surface of type 3 synovial membrane was cellular. The type of synovial membrane pre...
Onset and duration of corticosteroid effect after injection of Betasone for treating equine arthropathies. Results of laboratory and clinical studies.
Veterinary medicine, small animal clinician : VM, SAC    February 1, 1977   Volume 72, Issue 2 241-244 
Vernimb GD, Van Hoose LM, Hennessey PW.No abstract available
Innervation of the equine hip and stifle joint capsules.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association    September 15, 1976   Volume 169, Issue 6 614-619 
Rankin JS, Diesem CD.The hindlimbs of 3 ponies and 3 horses were dissected. The hip joint capsule was found to receive articular nerve fibers from the femoral, obturator, cranial gluteal, and sciatic nerves. The nerve fibers were distributed to the fibrous joint capsule and associated capsular ligaments. The stifle joint capsule was found to receive articular branches from the femoral, saphenous, obturator, common peroneal, and tibial nerves. The fibers terminated in the joint capsule, fat pad, patellar and collateral ligaments, and the internally situated meniscal and cruciate ligaments.
[Studies on diffusion of local anesthetic solutions from the hoof-joint in the bursa podotrochlearis in the horse].
Schweizer Archiv fur Tierheilkunde    June 1, 1976   Volume 118, Issue 6 233-238 
Wintzer HJ, Frey HH, Fitzek A.No abstract available
A comparison of techniques for the quantitative analysis of hyaluronic acid in equine synovial fluid.
Canadian journal of comparative medicine : Revue canadienne de medecine comparee    April 1, 1976   Volume 40, Issue 2 202-208 
Marsh JA, Hallett FR, Owen RR.A comparison of methods of preparing the hyaluronic acid of equine synovial fluid for quantitative spectrophotographic analysis is presented. A new method is proposed which appears superior to the previous methods.
LDH and LDH isoenzymes of synovial fluid in the horse.
Acta veterinaria Scandinavica    January 1, 1976   Volume 17, Issue 2 178-189 doi: 10.1186/BF03547926
Rejnö S.LDH is an intracellular enzyme, which when cells degenerate is released to the extracellular spaces and body fluids. Cells and organs in the mammalian body differ from each other with respect to their LDH isoenzyme patterns. These circumstances have led to the use of LDH isoenzyme determinations in laboratory diagnostic work. In the present investigation total LDH activity and LDH isoenzyme distribution in equine synovial fluid from healthy joints, joints with serous arthritis, osteochondrosis dissecans and arthrosis, were determined. The fluids from the diseased joints differed from normal sy...
Light and electron microscopic investigation of equine synovial membrane. A comparison between healthy joints and joints with intraarticular fractures and osteochondrosis dissecans.
Acta veterinaria Scandinavica    January 1, 1976   Volume 17, Issue 2 153-168 doi: 10.1186/BF03547924
Johansson HE, Rejnö S.Light and electron microscopic examination was made on equine synovial membrane from 23 healthy joints, nine joints with synovitis caused by intraarticular fracture and 10 joints with synovitis caused by osteochondrosis dissecans. Histologically as well as ultrastructurally the equine synovial membrane from healthy joints was of principally the same character as described in other species. Three types of synovial membrane — areolar, fibrous and adipose — and two types of lining cell were distinguished histologically. Ultrastructurally three types of lining cells were distinguished: A and ...