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Obturator Nerve Paralysis along with Stifle dislocation

 Obturator Nerve Paralysis


           











           Excessive pulling to deliver a calf, pulling a calf straight out from the cow rather than down and backwards or having the calf in the birth canal too long (several hours), predisposes the nerve to mechanical injury.

         This is common when assisted delivery is done without involving an experienced veterinarian and where there is feto-pelvic disproportion.

         Signs showing the abduction of right and left hind limb and hind limb extend forward.


Stifle Dislocation 

         A downer cow in lateral recumbency. On clinical examination hind limb is abducted and on extension of hind limb it forms an angle 90 degree  (Perpendicular to body ) suggestive of dislocation ie. Stifle dislocation (Luxation of stifle joint).






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