Growing Pains--Physitis

by: Christina Cable, DVM, Dipl. ACVS
Some of you might recognize this syndrome as the disease formerly known as epiphysitis. This disease--or more correctly disturbance of growth--is most commonly recognized as that problem when foals get the enlarged, often painful areas just above their knees (carpi) or hocks. But as my clients have been asking me: What is it, and what does it mean for my foal? Physitis is simply defined ...