Muñoz Juzado, AnaSaitua Penas, AritzBecero López, MireyaRiber Pérez, CristinaSatué Ambrojo, KatiuskaSánchez de Medina, AntoniaArgüelles Capilla, DavidCastejón Riber, CristinaUCH. Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía AnimalProducción Científica UCH 20192020-06-182020-06-182019-09-13Muñoz, A., Saitua, A., Becero, M., Riber, C., Satué, K., Sánchez de Medina, A., et al. (2019). The use of the water treadmill for the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries in the sport horse. Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 63, n. 3, pp. 439-445 (13 sep.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2019-00502450-8608 (Electrónico).http://hdl.handle.net/10637/10857Este es el artículo que se ha publicado de forma definitiva en: https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/jvetres/63/3/article-p439.xmlIn recent years, exercise on a water treadmill has come to have great relevance in rehabilitation and training centres for sport horses. Its use exploits certain physical properties of water, related to the fundamental principles of hydrodynamics, such as buoyancy, viscosity,hydrostatic pressure, and water temperature. These properties together with deliberate specification of the depth of the water and the velocity of the treadmill provide a combination of parameters that can be varied according to the purpose of the rehabilitation or training programme, the disease to rehabilitate, or the healing phase. In the current article, kinematic adaptations to exercise on a water treadmill and the direct application of such exercise to the rehabilitation of superficialand deep digital flexor tendon and accessory ligament injuries and back and joint diseases are described.application/pdfesopen accessCaballos de carrera y trote - Sistema musculoesquelético - Heridas y lesiones - Rehabilitación.Hydrotherapy.Horses - Training.Hidroterapia.Caballos - Adiestramiento.Race horses - Musculoskeletal system - Wounds and injuries - Rehabilitation.Artículohttps://doi.org/10.2478/jvetres-2019-0050https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es