Navicular in horses relates to problems associated with the navicular bone in the horse’s hoof and is a common diagnosis for lameness in the front foot. The label navicular disease is used to ...

“The hoof is attached to the bone by organic fasteners like a ... which, given the horse’s unusual anatomy, may be the most promising way to make progress. After a string of horse deaths ...

Your horse's feet are some of the most important structures contributing to his performance ability, and most people do what they can to keep them healthy. Unfortunately, things can and do go ...

Seventy percent of these injuries occur in the third metacarpal bone between the horse's knee and pastern (the area just above the top of the hoof ... for Functional Anatomy and Evolution ...

So how useful are X-rays, either for diagnostic purposes in a lame horse or as a predictor ... be completely normal. The anatomy of the foot is complex and the bones that can be seen on X-rays ...

which you see when you pick out debris your horse’s feet with a hoof pick. It is the job of the sole and the hoof wall to protect the inner hoof capsule and bones. The sole is softer than the ...

She had broken bones in both front ankles — a ... Kunz is referring to the rhythm of a horse's gallop: First the right hind-hoof hits the ground, followed by the left hind-hoof, then the left ...

so many of these horses will need shoes applied at this time, Miller said. "The hoof capsule is still growing, though, and the coffin bone and collateral cartilages are still developing ...

Relying on measurements taken from the horse’s radiographs, Goodrich used a 3-D printer to build a replica of his hoof, and the bones, which allowed Shine to stay balanced while he healed.

An international team of scientists, from the UK, the US, and the Netherlands, analysed hoof prints and foot bones from modern horses and fossil records to discover what happened to the lost digits.

Royal Mo has fractured a bone in his hoof during a workout in preparation for next weekend's Preakness and was taken to a veterinary hospital for treatment. Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens was ...