Diseases

Laminitis

Laminitis

Bilateral forelimb lameness, sawhorse stance, bounding digital pulses, hoof tester sensitivity at the toe.

Navicular syndrome (podotrochlosis)

Syndroma podotrochleare

Insidious bilateral forelimb lameness, short stride, toe-first landing, improves with palmar digital nerve block.

Proximal suspensory desmitis (PSD)

Forelimb: subtle lameness, improves with lateral palmar nerve block. Hindlimb: poor performance, behavioural changes, lameness on circle.

SDFT tendinopathy ('bowed tendon')

Heat, swelling, pain on palpation of mid-metacarpal SDFT; variable lameness.

Kissing spines (impingement of dorsal spinous processes)

Poor performance, back pain, resistance to saddling, bucking.

Equine gastric ulcer syndrome (EGUS)

Poor appetite, weight loss, behavioural changes, low-grade colic.

Recurrent laryngeal neuropathy (roaring)

Inspiratory noise at exercise ('roaring'), exercise intolerance.

Osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) — stifle

Stifle effusion, variable lameness, often bilateral.

Cervical vertebral stenotic myelopathy (Wobbler syndrome)

Symmetric ataxia (hindlimbs > forelimbs), proprioceptive deficits.