Canine hip dysplasia

Hi everyone, and welcome back to a brand new episode of Current Vet, the podcast that makes veterinary medicine simple.

I'm your host Dr. Lottie, and today we are talking about canine hip dysplasia.

So in this episode, we're going to focus mainly on developmental hip dysplasia in dogs.

So especially those young large breed dogs, but we're also going to talk about how these patients may present later in life with things like chronic osteoarthritis as well.

So at this stage, your differentials might include obviously hip dysplasia, something like pan-osteitis in a young, growing, large breed dog, hypertrophic osteodystrophy, osteochondrosis, traumatic soft tissue injury maybe, we could have stifle disease, lumbosacral pain, or then less commonly we could have a neurological condition as well.

But obviously because Nova is that young, rapid growing, large breed dog, the hind limb gate abnormalities, difficulty rising, and then possible hip pain, hip dysplasia is going to be very high on your list.

So canine hip dysplasia is a developmental disease of the coccyfemoral joint.

The coccyfemoral joint is the hip joint.