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This short clip is of a box turtle patient we are assessing for mobility. Now, although the turtle appears to be "mobile", if you pay close attention you'll notice that the animal is only moving itself via the forelimbs and the hindlimbs are not coming out of the shell at all. This is always something we check for when a turtle or tortoise comes in with a shell fracture along the vertebral scutes, which this patient has along the caudal aspect of its vertebral scutes. When there is a fracture al