Good day. Dominic Barfield here and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone or generic fruit-based device. we really appreciate if you could spend a couple of minutes of your time to leave us review. I know there's a couple of reviews out there that haven't sort of commented on.

I'll do that. I'll do that next week. So today joining Brian myself in the studio, Brian was so

organised, he was here and it was great, is Andy Phillips, so one of our lectures here in small

animal orthopaedics. So thank you, Andy, for joining us. Youurers here in small animal orthopedics.

So thank you, Andy, for joining us.

You're very welcome. Thanks for having me.

And we thought we'd have a chat about canine-pottella luxation.

So a great topic and something that brings me back to the horrors of when I thought about orthopedic procedures.

So I suppose the first thing when I'm talking about like canine and patella luxation is kind of like what is it?

What is it?

So it is slipping of the patella, which can either be the medial aspect of the stifle or the lateral aspects, more commonly the medial aspect,

and something that probably you'll see commonly in practice, so hopefully a relevant topic to talk about.

So most often it happens when the extensor mechanism of the stifle is mal aligned,

because it clearly all needs to be in a straight line to pull the stifling extension

and if anything slips off to the side then we end up with a luxating patella in a nutshell

so yeah i had a look andy because i occasionally i managed to do like a little bit of research

not not very often to be honest but particularly the things that have no knowledge about but um so it said like that for the grades of luxem

sorry the grades of patella luxation um so there's one two three four right and my in my brief understanding is say

so one is it can move out but return spontaneously yes so is that is, does it matter whether it's medial or lateral?

Is that just that?

No, that's the same.

So one is, it's easy to understand so that is it can luxate but normally spontaneously

...