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Sect. 1. General considerations -- Basic concepts of bovine lameness -- Examination of the locomotor system -- Radiology -- Anesthesia and chemical restraint -- Clinical pharmacology -- Conformation, growth, and heritable factors -- Conformation -- Genetics of conformation -- Growth -- Congenital defects of the musculoskeletal system.
Sect. 2. Conditions affecting the distal region -- Infectious diseases of the digits -- Interdigital space and claw -- Pododermatitis circumscripta (sole ulcer) -- White line disease at the heel -- White line disease at the toe (toe ulcer) -- Vertical fissure (sand crack) -- Horizontal grooves and fissures -- Traumatic injuries to the sole -- Traumatic exungulation -- Heel horn erosion -- Interdigital hyperplasia -- Traumatic injuries to the interdigital space.
Claw care -- Methyl methacrylate and claw prosthetics -- Sect. 3. Conditions affecting other skeletal structures -- Role of nutritional supplements in bovine lameness-review of nutritional toxicities -- Joint conditions -- Wounds, tendons, muscles, and neoplasms -- Wounds -- Tendons and tendon sheaths.
Muscles and neoplasms -- Diseases of the nervous system -- Spastic paresis (elso heel); downer cow syndrome -- Applied anatomy -- The Physis -- Sect. 4. Surgical procedures -- Principles of bovine orthopedics -- Surgery of the distal limb -- Surgical conditions of the proximal limb -- Sect. 5. Laminitis and factors predisposing to lameness -- Laminitis -- Grass founder.
Nutrition, behavior, and housing -- Nutrition -- Behavior -- Housing considerations relevant to lameness of dairy cows -- Management and control of claw lameness-an overview.
editor, Paul R. Greenough ; associate editor, A. David Weaver.
Includes bibliographical references and index.