Need help - Can someone please explain this?

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

It means that the horse ruptured the lateral branch in the suspensory ligament in the right front leg. (There are two branches - medial and lateral.) Prognosis wouldn't be very good for a full recovery due to the slow healing nature of suspensory ligament injuries and the fact that when they DO heal, the ligament is weaker due to scar tissue that typically develops.

Okay thank you.

I had no idea how many branches there were... don't know anything about this.

Poor horse had already hurt the other leg..... I just wanted to understand it a little better.