The Vet Blast Podcast presented by dvm360
Oct 20, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
On this episode of the Vet Blast Podcast, Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, sits down with Steve Mehler, DVM, DACVS, board-certified veterinary surgeon and co-founder of Mainline Veterinary Specialists, to…
We know that we see a lot of cranial cruciate ligament disease associated with osteoarthritis or vice versa.
How are you dealing with that? And, you know, what about like OA and any joint?
We don't really see, I don't believe primary wear and tear osteoarthritis in dogs.
But when we see osteoarthritis in a dog, it's almost always secondary to something else.
So figuring out what that primary thing was, hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, OCD, cruciate ligament tears, an old fracture, maybe we can do something about that.
But for us, osteoarthritis right now needs to be about preserving the articular cartilage and quieting the synovium.
And if you realize that most osteoarthritis in dogs is secondary and it's involving synovitis, most of the ingredients out there are not going to be effective at treating the actual joint or the articular cartilage itself.
The dogs may feel better because you're treating the muscle mass loss and the inflammation in the body and dealing with compensatory injury.
But there aren't many ingredients that are actually helping preserve articular cartilage.
If synovitis and articular cartilage damage is, for instance, a lot of its matrix metalloproteinase activation, and you have an ingredient that can slow that down, awesome, you're doing that.
The products that contain essential amino acids, high quality at big levels, they're helping rebuild muscle mass and ligament and tendon strength.
So I think involving supplements that make sense, The supplement world's the wild, wild west.
We know that we see a lot of cranial cruciate ligament disease associated with osteoarthritis or vice versa.
How are you dealing with that? And, you know, what about like OA and any joint?
We don't really see, I don't believe primary wear and tear osteoarthritis in dogs.
But when we see osteoarthritis in a dog, it's almost always secondary to something else.
So figuring out what that primary thing was, hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, OCD, cruciate ligament tears, an old fracture, maybe we can do something about that.
But for us, osteoarthritis right now needs to be about preserving the articular cartilage and quieting the synovium.
And if you realize that most osteoarthritis in dogs is secondary and it's involving synovitis, most of the ingredients out there are not going to be effective at treating the actual joint or the articular cartilage itself.
The dogs may feel better because you're treating the muscle mass loss and the inflammation in the body and dealing with compensatory injury.
But there aren't many ingredients that are actually helping preserve articular cartilage.
If synovitis and articular cartilage damage is, for instance, a lot of its matrix metalloproteinase activation, and you have an ingredient that can slow that down, awesome, you're doing that.
The products that contain essential amino acids, high quality at big levels, they're helping rebuild muscle mass and ligament and tendon strength.
So I think involving supplements that make sense, The supplement world's the wild, wild west.
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