ABSTRACT
Decreased weight bearing and gait abnormalities may be caused by septic arthritis, joint dislocation, tendon or ligament rupture and neurological deficits. Palpation establishes excessive or reduced range of movement, heat or coldness, pain, crepitus and any swelling. Rickets is a disease of young growing goats associated with a failure of bone mineralisation in the epiphyses of the long bones. Little information is available on renal failure-induced mineral imbalance causing osteodystrophy in the goat. Applying maximum flexion to a joint can exacerbate lameness. Other causes of fractures such as trauma, discospondylitis for spinal presentation, septic arthritis for joint swelling, other infectious causes of musculoskeletal problems. Fractures comprise one of the more common musculoskeletal disorders associated with marked pain. A bone sequestrum results from the loss of periosteal or cortical blood supply to a small section of long bone, with concurrent infection.
