If eating rules your life; if you struggle with control of eating and weight; if you may be harming your health; you may have an eating disorder. An eating disorder is not an illness like measles. It is not something that you either HAVE OR DONâT HAVE.
In the case of the fetlock, the capsule extends out of the back of the actual joint and forms a pouch above the sesamoid bones behind the cannon bone. If this pouch of the joint capsule becomes thickened or distended, the resulting swelling on the back of the fetlock is known as an articular windgall. imagined as a sausage of fluid which envelopes the tendons as they run over the back of the fetlock.
Cancer: Cancers of the bone and the blood can also cause sternal swelling. Examples of bone cancers that can affect the sternum are multiple myeloma and osteosarcoma. Lymphoma and leukemia are cancers of the lymphocytes (white blood cells) and bone marrow cells, respectively. These can also result in sternal swelling.