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Updated: May 20, 2025
The case shown above was diagnosed clinically as incipient ringbone. The X-ray revealed no lesions. In occasional instances there co-exists an obvious cause for supporting-leg-lameness and an occult cause a nail puncture.
For a careful study of supporting-leg-lameness involving a fore limb, the subject is driven or led toward the one making such examination. If a hind leg is to be observed, the animal is made to travel away from the examiner. Where there exists swinging-leg-lameness, the subject should be caused to move past the diagnostician, so that he may get a side view of the subject while it is in motion.
In supporting-leg-lameness, the transientness of the weight-bearing period upon the affected member is the determining factor in the production of lameness. This unequal period of weight-bearing upon the front legs, for instance, causes an acceleration in the advancement of the sound member, in order to relieve the diseased one which is bearing weight.
The head movements of a horse at a trot, in supporting-leg-lameness of a front leg, synchronize with the discharge of weight from a lame leg to the opposite one if sound; but in pelvic limb affections, the head is thrown or jerked upward as weight is caught by the sound member, this peculiar nodding movement is opposite in the two instances.
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