Causas y concausas del síndrome de caída en la raza de lidiarevisión bibliográfica

Abstract

The syndrome of muscle weakness with motor incoordination and transitory loss of station and balance, all of which is encompassed under the common term "fall", has been worrying different authors and bullfighting scholars for almost a century. The first references to the fall problem date back to the end of the 19th century. The frequency with which this problem occurs in the arena does not become considerable until the beginning of the 20s. The fall can present different manifestations or levels of severity and affects both males and females and specimens of all ages: bulls, utreros, erales, calves, cows, etc. It is observed in individuals from different herds, regardless of their weight, the category of the square where they are fought and the distance from it to the pasture of origin. Nowadays, in view of the different studies carried out, it is conceivable that falls are a multi-causal problem, where there would be situations, handling practices, etc., that would act as predisposing agents, incapable of causing the fall by themselves, but making the animal that suffers from them more likely to present it; and on the other hand, it would be the true triggering cause or causes of claudication.