Abstract
Lameness is a major source of pain and distress to the horse and a financial loss to the owner. Joint injury and joint disorders represent a major part of the equine practitioners workload and, in the majority of cases, cartilage failure has been identified as an important contributing factor (Todhunter and Lust 1990, Trotter and McIlwraith 1996). Most joint lesions are caused by chronic fatigue of the joint structure in which the rate of micro damage exceeds the rate of repair, especially where the amount of cartilage is extraordinarily low (Pool 1996). Lesions to the articular surfaces often occur secondary to a variety of joint diseases and present difficult diagnostic problems both in veterinary and human medicine.
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