Patent ID: 7559910

Claim:
A tendon and ligament support for a horse's fetlock joint having an anterior side and a posterior side comprising a cannon bone-embracing collar, a pastern bone-embracing collar, means for securing the collars so as to embrace the horse's leg respectively above and below the fetlock joint, connection means for providing articulation and separation between the two collars, wherein the connection means is adapted to provide limited ligament and/or tendon elongation under load, and the connection means comprising, in combination, a pivot, arrangement for providing articulation and separation between the two collars and an essentially inelastic connector of high tensile strength connected to one or more points on each of said cannon bone-embracing collar and said pastern-bone-embracing collar arranged across the posterior side and centrally of the fetlock joint so as to limit fetlock joint movement within a predetermined range of pivot rotation.