Dear Dr. Vittoria: After our trail ride, I thought my horse had a stone bruise. When my vet came out to see her, she found that my mare had bowed a tendon. I did not think it was that big of a deal, ...

“Juvenile bowed tendons, or ‘baby bows,’ are not uncommon in yearlings and weanlings,” said Johanna Reimer, VMD, Dipl. ACVIM, Dipl. ACVC (cardiology), of the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in ...

While it might be easy to forget about the small accessory ligament that anchors the superficial digital flexor tendon to the upper foreleg bone (radius), acute desmitis (ligament inflammation) of ...

In order to understand why and how these injuries occur, it is helpful to be familiar with the structures involved. Tendons are the straps of connective tissues that attach a muscle to other body ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The term that strikes the greatest fear in a racehorse owner's and trainer's mind is "bowed tendon". A bowed tendon will certainly end a ...