COFFIN JOINT/PEDAL BONE

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I am really confused. I thought the coffin joint was also known as the pedal bone and I know the term pedal bone is more often used in America. However, on looking at a popular monthly horse magazine over the weekend a picture showing a coffin joint with an arrow pointing to it clearly labelled 'coffin joint' is shown with another arrow pointing to another area of the foot labelled 'pedal bone'. What's going on? I am well confused. They are the same thing aren't they now matter what they are called???

Another confusing moment has arisen because my friend had her vet out to her mare the other day and the vet said her mare had an inflammed coffin joint as he could feel it. How can you feel the coffin joint - it is deep within the structures of the foot behind about 5 cm of laminae, isn't it? Surely I am correct on this? Please help, I feel I am going mad!
 
The pedal bone/coffin bone are the same thing.
The coffin joint is not a bone- it's a joint! Between P2 and P3 (the short pastern bone and the pedal bone)
 
Coffin joint is commonly considered where the top of the hoof meets the start of actual leg skin! (If that makes sense)!
So iinflammed coffin joint prob means he could feel heat in that area! the actual joint is between the bone, but there is no muscle down there, all tendons! so not hard to not feel heat if there is any inflammation etc
the pedal bone is the last bone in the leg, found inside the hoof, in the centre. this is the bone, NOT a joint!
 
Okay I get you. But if you put the words coffin bone into google or MSM in refers to the pedal bone. So it is called a bone and a joint and the pedal bone is the same thing!!!! How weird.
 
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Okay I get you. But if you put the words coffin bone into google or MSM in refers to the pedal bone. So it is called a bone and a joint and the pedal bone is the same thing!!!! How weird.

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No there is a coffine BONE which is just another name for the pedal bone and a coffin JOINT which is the joint between the coffin bone and the lower pastern bone
 
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