Patent ID: 8443763

Claim:
An equine support boot for providing localized treatment and protection to isolated portions of a horse leg, 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 the horse leg in order to prevent injury and provide therapeutic treatment; an upper strap configured to adjustably secure the base portion around a 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; an interior patch bonded to an interior surface of the base portion around the periphery of the concave portion; an orthopedic pad configured to conform to a sesamoid bone in the horse leg, the orthopedic pad being disposed in the concave portion below the fetlock joint; a first sling strap configured to stretch underneath the concave portion and the orthopedic pad 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 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.