Older horses can be at risk of sustaining an uncommon injury: acute rupture of the proximal (upper) superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT) where the cannon bone meets the carpus (knee). This is ...
Colloquially referred to as the knee, the equine “carpus” would be more accurately termed the wrist — as this is its equivalent structure in the human body. The horse’s fetlock then relates to our ...