Advanced Canine Sports Medicine and Regenerative Medicine: Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Intra-Articular Injections, and Needle Scope Arthroscopy of the Forelimb

Open to all veterinarians

This advanced sports medicine workshop focuses on ways to identify and treat specific soft tissue injuries of the forelimb using a combination of diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound, intra-articular injections, as well as needle arthroscopy.

Attendees learn and practice concepts and techniques for performing diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound of the shoulder and carpus on cadavers. For the treatment of soft tissue injuries, ultrasound-guided orthobiologic injections of the forelimb are demonstrated.

For the treatment of osteoarthritis, attendees learn and practice concepts and techniques for intra-articular injections for the shoulder, elbow, and carpus on cadavers.

The use of orthobiologics such as platelet rich plasma (PRP), bone marrow aspirate concentrate (BMAC), and adipose-derived stem cells for the treatment of soft tissue injuries as well as osteoarthritis of the forelimb are discussed. Regenerative medicine processing will be demonstrated and BMAC collection are practiced on cadavers.

Attendees learn and practice concepts and techniques for using needle arthroscopy as a tool for diagnosing and treating intra-articular pathology of the shoulder and elbow. Attendees practice basic arthroscopic techniques for treating elbow dysplasia on cadavers.

New skills learned:
• Perform diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound of the shoulder.
• Perform diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound of the carpus.
• Perform intra-articular injections of the shoulder.
• Perform intra-articular injections of the elbow.
• Perform intra-articular injections of the carpus.
• Process platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
• Collect bone marrow for BMAC preparation.
• Perform needle arthroscopy of the shoulder.
• Perform needle arthroscopy of the elbow.
• Perform arthroscopic treatment of the elbow.

This laboratory includes the use of cadavers.