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The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy

The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of hippotherapy (therapy with horses) on posture and body function among children with cerebral palsy. A case–control study included forty-five children aged 6–12 years, classified as Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level I or...

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Autores principales: Matusiak-Wieczorek, Ewelina, Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elzbieta, Synder, Marek, Borowski, Andrzej
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32961681
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186846
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author Matusiak-Wieczorek, Ewelina
Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elzbieta
Synder, Marek
Borowski, Andrzej
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Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elzbieta
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description The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of hippotherapy (therapy with horses) on posture and body function among children with cerebral palsy. A case–control study included forty-five children aged 6–12 years, classified as Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level I or II, with spastic diplegia or hemiplegia. The participants were randomly divided into three groups: study I (n = 15), study II (n = 15) and control (n = 15). The children from the study groups attended 30min hippotherapy sessions for 12 consecutive weeks, twice (study group I) or once (study group II) a week. The Sitting Assessment Scale (SAS) was used. A comparison of SAS showed an improvement in almost all the assessed categories among the children who participated in hippotherapy. In study group I, statistically significant differences were noted in the assessment of head position control, arm function (in both cases, p = 0.012) and trunk control (p = 0.005) and in study group II in the assessment of trunk control (p = 0.028). Hippotherapy has a positive influence on the body posture and function of individual body parts in a sitting position among children with cerebral palsy.
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spelling pubmed-75587652020-10-26 The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy Matusiak-Wieczorek, Ewelina Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elzbieta Synder, Marek Borowski, Andrzej Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of hippotherapy (therapy with horses) on posture and body function among children with cerebral palsy. A case–control study included forty-five children aged 6–12 years, classified as Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) level I or II, with spastic diplegia or hemiplegia. The participants were randomly divided into three groups: study I (n = 15), study II (n = 15) and control (n = 15). The children from the study groups attended 30min hippotherapy sessions for 12 consecutive weeks, twice (study group I) or once (study group II) a week. The Sitting Assessment Scale (SAS) was used. A comparison of SAS showed an improvement in almost all the assessed categories among the children who participated in hippotherapy. In study group I, statistically significant differences were noted in the assessment of head position control, arm function (in both cases, p = 0.012) and trunk control (p = 0.005) and in study group II in the assessment of trunk control (p = 0.028). Hippotherapy has a positive influence on the body posture and function of individual body parts in a sitting position among children with cerebral palsy. MDPI 2020-09-19 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7558765/ /pubmed/32961681 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186846 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Matusiak-Wieczorek, Ewelina
Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk, Elzbieta
Synder, Marek
Borowski, Andrzej
The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy
title The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy
title_full The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy
title_fullStr The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy
title_full_unstemmed The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy
title_short The Influence of Hippotherapy on the Body Posture in a Sitting Position among Children with Cerebral Palsy
title_sort influence of hippotherapy on the body posture in a sitting position among children with cerebral palsy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7558765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32961681
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186846
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