There are different causes of osteoarthritis, but generally they come down to either abnormal forces on normal cartilage or normal forces on damaged cartilage.

One of the world's leading clinicians and researchers in equine joints is C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, Dipl. ACVS, University Distinguished Professor, Barbara Cox Anthony Chair in Orthopedics, and director of Orthopaedic Research at Colorado State University (CSU). At WEVA he presented an update on new therapies for osteoarthritis, a condition previously known as degenerative joint disease.

One of his main points in the general discussion is that we need to think of the joint as an organ, realizing there are a number of ways in which damage can occur to the joint, and a number of ways the joint can respond

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