MENDES JÚNIOR, J. W.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1731878418983747; MENDES JÚNIOR, José Wilson.
Resumen:
The horse is active in various competitions involving speed, jumping, strength, dexterity, such as
racing, riding, enduros, games being somewhat important tool in therapy with human patients with
motor limitations. Because they are very agile, assets and explosives, triggering rapid responses
that can cause disastrous accidents, self impossibilitantes injury, or third parties. Associated with
these features, the performance of activities that most often predispose to traumatic injuries, as
consist the rodeos. Because of this there was the experiment and upon survey data for the period
2004 to 2013. The study was carried out the initial course of study through the data registered in
the medical records on file, and the pilot, in the course of the periodics academic 2013.2, 2014.1
and 2014.2, through collections in locus in the clinical care of the hospital routine. Being the
execution based based on a review in teaching, periodic, journals, technical and scientific sites and
similar publications. It is concluded that the incidence of tarsal osteoarthritis in a number of 15
animals in a total of 2152 animals met in ten years is still very low, which leads the interpretations
of radiographic procedures for animals showing lameness, be careful that the diagnosis OA not
only occurs after the disease has been established.
