Think the number of innovative new therapies for tissue healing in horses can’t get any higher? Think again. Kim A. Sprayberry, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, an internal medicine specialist at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., introduced attendees of the Oct. 18-19 National Thoroughbred Racing Association Safety and Integrity Alliance held at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., to a new tissue healing system currently undergoing testing for efficacy in equine tendons.

How Horses Move

Sprayberry discussed briefly how the horse’s body moves and which body parts are stressed most as movement is initiated and the horse proceeds to work at speed.

"Think of the hind end as the motor, the source of propulsion," Sprayberry said. "The shoulders and forelimbs support approximately 60% of the horse’s weight during standing, and their soft-tissue attachments to the trunk mean they are designed to accept and absorb the body weight as it is thrown forward by the hind end

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