Patent ID: 8584624

Claim:
An equine support boot, comprising: a base portion configured to wrap around a fetlock joint of a horse and provide varied levels of localized pressure to ligaments, tendons, and bones above and below the fetlock joint in a horse leg in order to prevent injury and provide therapeutic treatment; at least one upper strap configured to adjustably secure the base portion around the leg of the horse above the fetlock joint; a concave portion formed in the base portion adjacent to a bottom edge of the base portion, the concave portion being configured to engage the fetlock joint; a first sling strap configured to stretch underneath the concave portion and secure to a front portion of the horse leg, the first sling strap being formed as an elongated extension of the base portion wrapping around an exterior surface of the base portion below the concave portion to apply a selectively adjustable upward force against the pad below the fetlock joint, thus decreasing a tensile stress in the localized area between a palmer/planter aspect of a proximal pastern and a ventral portion of the proximal sesamoid bone; and a second sling strap configured to overlap the first sling strap below the fetlock joint and provide an upward force on the concave portion, the second sling strap having: a first end fixedly attached to the first sling strap; a second end configured to releasably attach to the base portion; and a first connector portion between the first end and the second end being configured to releasably attach the second sling strap to the first sling strap below the fetlock joint.