In some older horses, the cannon and splint bones may become completely fused.

Surgery to remove the fractured end of the splint bone, particularly in the lower third, is typically successful.

Others may need surgical removal of a portion of the damaged splint bone.

As a 4-year-old, Real Quiet suffered a fractured splint bone in his right front leg.

Severe enough trauma can fracture the splint bone.

Concussive forces run from the carpus or tarsus into the splint bones.

Thoatherium even lacked splint bones, which are remnants of the second and fourth toe found in modern horses.

There is an exaggerated amount of weight supported by the medial splint bone, leading to splints.

Interosseous ligaments: connect the cannon bone to each splint bone.

Splints are new bone formation (exostoses) along the involved splint bone.

Throughout his career, Assault also overcame kidney, splint bone, fetlock, knee and bleeding problems.

Splint bones are attached to the cannon by the interosseous ligament, providing some mobility in the young horse.

The horse will wing in, possibly leading to an interference injury or overload injury of the splint bone.

More severe lameness is sometimes associated with a fractured splint bone, or soft tissue injury adjacent to the splints.

A splint involving the cannon alone is more likely to disappear than one involving the splint bone itself.

Bench-kneed conformation causes excess loading of the medial splint bone, which can lead to splints.

If a trainer does not decrease the workload sufficiently, and the splint bone continues to receive concussion, the injury is likely to continue or worsen.

He dropped the disruptor pistol and leaned over to clutch at his splinted bone, tears dotting his eyes from the relentless pain.

All that remains of them in modern horses is a set of small vestigial bones on the leg below the knee, known informally as splint bones.

Splint bones, the second and fourth metacarpal or metatarsal bones, thought to be vestiges of the toes possessed by prehistoric equines.

Skeletal remnants show obvious wear on the back of both sides of metacarpal and metatarsal bones, commonly called the "splint bones".

Digger Crown was by that time still troubled by the injury in the splint bone of his right rear leg he had suffered in the previous summer.

At times, bone proliferation on the axial border of the splint bone can be seen radiographically, but ultrasound is much more sensitive for detecting blind splints.

In the young horse the interosseous ligament which attaches the splint bones to the cannon can become damaged or torn from the concussive and rotational forces of exercise.

Something was there, all right: a crack in the left front splint bone, an injury described as minor because it occurs in a bone that does not carry the horse's weight.