Back from two years off

‘Podge’ (Moonbeg Boy), a 15-year-old Irish sports horse gelding used for eventing, had suffered an overstrain injury to his superficial digital flexor tendon in August 2018. He had developed a swelling in the mid-cannon region of his right forelimb two weeks prior to presentation at RVC’s Equine Referral Hospital. A brief trot showed him to be mildly lame on that leg and the right forelimb superficial digital flexor tendon was painful on palpation.

Read the full article - Case Study - Stem Cell Treatment of an Equine Tendon Injury - which originally appeared in the Autumn 2020 edition of Clinical Connections.