Conservative treatment of an incomplete longbone fracture of a hindlimb of four horses

Division of Equine Studies, University of Liverpool, Neston, South Wirral.

Four horses with an incomplete fracture of a hindlimb longbone were examined. In two, the tibia had been fractured by external trauma. In the other two horses proximal metatarsal 3 had fractured during normal activity. The diagnoses were made radiographically and the horses were treated conservatively by box rest. The fractures healed satisfactorily and the horses became sound.