Locomotor changes in horses submitted to different shoeing techniques evaluated with Equimetrix

• Grant number: 14/18232-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry
• Principal Investigator: Lina Maria Wehrle Gomide
• Grantee: Lina Maria Wehrle Gomide
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária (FMVA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araçatuba. Araçatuba , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Araçatuba
• Associated researchers: José Corrêa de Lacerda Neto ; Juliana Regina Peiró ; Luiz Claudio Nogueira Mendes

Abstract

The aim of this study is to better explain locomotor changes induced by toe or heel elevation of thoracic limbs of horses, as well as possible structures overloaded with these techniques. For this porpouse, eight Arabian horses without clinical and thermographic evidence of musculoeskeletal abnormalities will be used. All animals will perform exercise using flat and six degrees toe or elevation shoe. Kinematic evaluations will be realized at walk and trot and thermographic evaluations will be conducted, before, immediately after exercise and 15, 60 and 120 minutes after this. The data will be analyzed by ANOVA followed by Tukey test (p <0.05). (AU)