how many check ligiments?

[loopylucifer]

as said how many check ligiment do horses have?

revising for st4 nxt wk. and need to know how many. is it two in each front leg? and not sure if any behind cant find in any books!

 

[eohippus]

Here is a good anatomy picture.

http://www.horseshoes.com/anatomy/horsesense/horsesense.htm







Check Ligament: The function of this ligament is to prevent undue strain being applied to the flexor tendons and to assist in supporting the horse, thus allowing him to sleep whilst standing. This ligament is connected to the deep flexor tendon and attached to the cannon bone, at the back, and angles downward and backward
Suspensory ligament: Lies between the two splint bones close to the back of the cannon bone, starts close to the knee and going down to the fetlock joint, where it divides into two branches. Each branch attaches to the corresponding sesamoid bone while some fibres combine with the common digital extensor tendon. The suspensory ligament provides support for the fetlock joint, preventing it from extending down too far towards the ground, which would increase the risk of strains

Branches of the suspensory ligament: Leave the Annual Ligament either side of the lone pastern bone and joins onto the extensor tendon at the front of the cannon bone, therefore joining ligament to tendon. Particularly in the front leg, they take all the strain on landing from a jump and which is normally about 60% of the horse’s weight

this is for the fore and hind leg

hope this helps and best of luck for your stage four

Dawn

 

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Branches of the suspensory ligament: Leave the Annual Ligament either side of the lone pastern bone and joins onto the extensor tendon at the front of the cannon bone, therefore joining ligament to tendon.

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think you might mean the Annular ligament! and the long pastern bone, not the lone one as there are 3 of them.

 

[eohippus]

maybe its a different terminology then, this was cut and pasted from an online vet journal, not written by me as such. It was a far better way of explaining things easily.

to elaborate there are:
intersesamodian ligaments
distal sesamoidean ligaments
palmar ligaments of the pastern joint
impar ligament of the navicular joint
Collateral cartilage and navicular ligaments
Carpal ligaments
medial and lateral collateral ligaments of the elbow joint
sacroiliac ligaments
femoral ligaments
cruciate ligaments
lateral, medial collateral and dorsal tarsal and plantar tarsal ligaments of the hock
and five ligament sections of the topline

hope this helps
Dawn

 

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there are more ligaments than that too, but definitely no annual ligament in any terminology - think the website has made a typo or is not reliable as i know when they say lone they mean long as that is the bone that is there and the annular ligament would be my hot topic at the moment as my horse has just had both of them chopped. anatomy was my fave subject at vet school - sad i am i know.

 

[eohippus]

Yes maybe it was a typo error, I did think about it but I thought it would probably be okay as a general bit of info. I must admit when I looked it up it did not make sense but when a vet has written the paper you would hope that a degree of trust can be gained in what is written.
Yes there are lots more ligaments, but these are the most general and applicable to the postees question for her stage four. However, after listing these I did notice she only wanted check ligaments, Oh well.
I hope it all helped at the end of the day.
regards
Dawn

 

[loopylucifer]

thanks for all of that and yes was only intrseted in how many check ligiments as i know two in each front but does the same apply to hind limbs?