Good day. Don't eat, David Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast.

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Anyway, joining Brian and myself in the studio is Matthew Pied, one of our senior lecturers here in the Small Animal Vettanyary Orthopaedic

Surgery, and he's bought along Jack as well. So if you hear any sort of breathing in the background

that it's Jack, it's not Brian or myself. Anyway, Matthew, thank you very much for coming in.

Okay, thank you. It's good to be here.

And we're going to have a chat about elbow dysplasia,

maybe the terminology, maybe we would like to explore that.

But elbows, in general, Matthew, do you think as far as, you know,

where's our first sort of point of call about how we um look into any issues

with fall in lanness or particularly like the elbow well i guess the elbow is probably the most

commonplace that's going to be the seat of a persistent fall in lameness particularly in purebred

dogs um and and that's because of full limbless, particularly in purebred dogs.

And that's because of this, let's call it a syndrome that we call

elbow dysplasia.

And elbow dysplasia is a bulk term for a whole bunch of primary things that can go wrong with the elbow normally during development

and then the osteoarthritis that comes along behind them.

So elbow disease is a problem and the biggest part of the problem

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