Professor of Equine Surgery and Lameness Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado
Post-traumatic Osteoarthritis (PTOA) is extremely common in equine athletes as well as humans. The horse is an incredible translational model and has been utilized for decades to inform equine clinicians treating their patients and MD’s treating people with PTOA. Further, septic arthritis has been a musculoskeletal condition that causes intense pain, suffering and sometimes death in both horses and people. This talk reviews preclinical modeling to treat PTOA and septic OA in horses as a method to better treat disease in equine patients and humans. Expansive knowledge has been gained in the last decade to further help these common diseases in athletes and this talk informs attendees of the exciting new modalities that are on the horizon in One Health.
