DVM360.com, a Web site devoted to covering veterinary medicine, quoted Steven Budsberg, director of clinical research at the College of Veterinary Medicine and professor of orthopedic surgery, in an article about osteoarthritis in dogs.
“When you see a geriatric patient with OA, the first thing in your mind is what caused it,” he said. “I think it’s a very important point that dogs don’t just get OA. There is usually a causative situation, a problem with that joint at some point in its life. The classic example is the overweight Labrador who’s about 6 years old with significant degeneration in the elbows. This OA is a sequela of a problem in the elbows the dog probably had at six months. So now that the dog is older and overweight, signs of OA manifest.”
