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Elina Aula | 2009 | Hippotherapy | Hippotherapy (HT) is a rehabilitation method for neurological clients. There isn’t much experience of hippotherapy with SCI clients in Finland… Show more (+) Hippotherapy (HT) is a rehabilitation method for neurological clients. There isn’t much experience of hippotherapy with SCI clients in Finland. Finnish Riding therapy includes hippotherapy, groundwork, carriage driving, educational riding and vaulting.Methods: The purpose of the case report was to clarify the possibilities of HT for SCI (tetraplegia) client, and find out what HT can give to the rehabilitation process.Client: 24‐year old female, ASIA B, motor level left C6, right C7. Before a car accident 2003 she was a competition rider.The data includes 4 weeks of hippotherapy; 3 therapy sessions per week, ground work with horse and carriage driving. Documentation with video camera, camera and the follow up of the client’s functions in daily living. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Lorenzo Lucarelli, Montse Cuesta, Maria Barajas, | 2009 | Learning and Psychoeducation | Nowadays in Catalonia many riding clubs offer a hippotherapy or equestrian rehabilitation service; ‘though none, offer psychological assessment, and very… Show more (+) Nowadays in Catalonia many riding clubs offer a hippotherapy or equestrian rehabilitation service; ‘though none, offer psychological assessment, and very little educational therapy is provided in the hippotherapy centres.Therefore we decided to organise educational and leisure group events for psychic disabled as an introduction to the further organisation of therapeutic activities, which we hope to have recognised by our Government in a reasonably short time (few years), since in other European Countries they are already integrated in to the Public Health System.Our interdisciplinary team was composed of a psychologist, a nurse and a therapeutic riding instructor. We also wanted to integrate into the team a social educator and a physiotherapist, but we couldn’t afford so many professionals, so we received the voluntary help of some physiotherapy students, and the role of the social educator was played by the therapeutic riding instructor who is ending his specialisation in ethics, together with the psychologist who has several years experience working in the integration and social education field.We organised two group experiences of an example therapy session for psychic disabled with 16 people affected by different mental disabilities: Downs syndrome, cerebral palsy, brain damage and others, making the disabled clean and dress the horses, lead them by the rope, and then ride them moving straight, to the sides, upwards and downwards for a few hundred meters.Following the first two experiences we started a cycle of 6 sessions of psychological treatment assisted by horses for 4 of the 16 participants, who expressed the will to follow our therapy. They do one session per month, so the final outcome is not yet known, since the programme is not yet ended.What we mean to report here is that in the leisure sessions we noticed a great effect on the behavior of all participants: they all increased their level of activity and communication, they all reacted positively to the experience and tended to be better and more cooperative within the group activities not just during the experience in the riding club, but also the following few days back at the institution where they meet daily.Furthermore, 25% of the participants have felt and understood the positive effect of the riding session so much that they have asked to do it regularly and in depth.We have reached the conclusion then that the leisure experience is to be considered a good way to involve psychical disabled people into a horse assisted therapy programme. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Margreet Ludewig, Jean Fourie | 2009 | Therapeutic Riding | This study explored therapeutic riding in the development of ‘core skills’ in a physically disabled preschool child, known pseudonymously as… Show more (+) This study explored therapeutic riding in the development of ‘core skills’ in a physically disabled preschool child, known pseudonymously as ‘Amy’. Amy became a paraplegic while still in her mother’s womb. When Amy’s mother was seven months pregnant, she was shot through her stomach by hijackers. An emergency caesarean was performed and Amy was born two months prematurely. As the baby began moving, it was noticed that her legs remained immobile. After further tests it was discovered that the spinal nerves close to where the bullet had entered, were damaged. Consequently, Amy was left with no mobility in her legs and she was unable to crawl and has never been able to walk. Owing to the limitations in Amy’s movement ability, certain developmental areas required for school readiness were delayed. Her perceptual‐motor, socio‐emotional and language skills were poorly developed and these weaknesses could be enhanced through the movement modality of the horse. A programme of therapeutic riding was implemented over a year, with the specific goal of stimulating both physical and psychological core skills. The horse, with its distinctive three‐dimensional movement, facilitated this unique form of intervention. The research question thus focused on how therapeutic riding enhanced Amy’s ‘core developmental skills.’ Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Jane Liddiard, | 2009 | Hippotherapy | Background: Hippotherapy involves providing therapy treatment using the activity of (horse) riding, something that children who have disabling conditions can… Show more (+) Background: Hippotherapy involves providing therapy treatment using the activity of (horse) riding, something that children who have disabling conditions can ‘do’. Hippotherapy has been found to assist with developing balance and postural control, attention and motor coordination, which may contribute to the development of skills in the functional area of handwriting, an activity many children who have disabilities have difficulty in ‘doing’. This paper investigates the use of hippotherapy to develop the handwriting skills of children who have disabilities.Method: Seven children, who experienced a variety of disabilities, participated in ten weeks of hippotherapy intervention and a school/home‐based handwriting programme. Baseline, midway and post intervention measurements were taken using the Miller Function and Participation Scales (Miller 2006)and the Evaluation Tool of Children’s Handwriting (Amundson 1995).Results: Friedman’s Analysis of Variance identified significant change in all areas of the M‐Fun, with post‐ hoc analysis finding improvement after the commencement of hippotherapy in gross motor and fine motor areas. Analysis of the ETCH found significant improvement in word or letter legibility for four of five participants. ‐ 74 ‐Conclusions: Hippotherapy may be a valuable activity to include within a comprehensive occupational therapy program, to develop fine, gross motor and functional skills, including handwriting. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Stanislava TÍLEŠOVÁ | 2009 | Therapeutic Riding | The alternative emotional experience (AEE) offers a unique chance as a healing element in therapy with children and adults alike… Show more (+) The alternative emotional experience (AEE) offers a unique chance as a healing element in therapy with children and adults alike. It often brings a sudden change in the development of the individuals in therapy. Based on the factors of the alternative emotional experience which manifest themselves in theinteraction between humans and horses ‐ observed and classified by Kupper‐Heilmann ‐ we can set a theoretical model of the work with the clients in therapeutic riding, synthesizing several psychological theories. This model is essentially eclectic, bringing together the outcomes and practical experiences from years of hippotherapy, teaching and my work as a school psychologist. These experiences confirm the validity of the theory of deprivation and its impact on the psychological development. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Carine Debandt, Stefi Lejeune, | 2009 | Therapeutic Riding | As a final project and part of the postgraduate training “Equine Assisted Therapy” (EAT) at the Arteveldehogeschool in Gent, we… Show more (+) As a final project and part of the postgraduate training “Equine Assisted Therapy” (EAT) at the Arteveldehogeschool in Gent, we organised a graduation project of 3 EAT camps for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) without diagnosed mental restriction. The purpose of these camps was the stimulation of the general wellbeing, both mental and physical, of the children. The camps offered a motivating opportunity where they could discover and develop themselves and learn to function in a group.The camps took place in Riding Centre Dennenhof at Landegem (Belgium), where over a period of 5 days the children were given a combination of psycho‐education, behavioural therapy, psychomotor therapy, creative therapy and relaxation exercise. During these days and therapies the children learned to know themselves in a context of different activities with the horses. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Daniel Bens | 2009 | Hippotherapy | For the hippophysiotherapy sessions, the target group was sorted by the topographic cerebral palsy classification: (congenital) diparesis, with mild to… Show more (+) For the hippophysiotherapy sessions, the target group was sorted by the topographic cerebral palsy classification: (congenital) diparesis, with mild to moderate spasticity and sensorimotor impairment, characterised by a lack of normal movement experiences.This study was carried out with the assistance of Jolien, a 7‐year‐old girl, suffering from a motor disorder called spastic diparesis with a mild mental handicap. For four consecutive years she had some Botox infiltrations near the hamstrings, the last one in January of this year (2009). She moves functionally with an orthopaedic tribike, a manual wheelchair and a Kaye‐walker. She wears bilateral leafsprings in orthopedic shoes and a night orthesis. Apart from the typical problems in the lower limbs she suffers from a weak hypotonic trunk musculature (postural and selective) as well as from clear instability near the pelvis region and poor selective muscular strength values for all hip muscles at the expense of the right side. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Gisa Koller | 2009 | Vaulting | Many people who are affected by severe physical disabilities due to cerebral palsy and spasticity are using the opportunity of… Show more (+) Many people who are affected by severe physical disabilities due to cerebral palsy and spasticity are using the opportunity of psycho‐educational vaulting and riding therapy. After riding, those affected, as well as their caregivers, reported positive effects both on their mood and on improvements in mobility.Even during the promotion, improvement in mobility and tonicity can be observed. Therefore, I was faced with the question of how the change in mobility through riding could be measured, and direct effect represented. In addition to the development of a scientific method for measuring mobility, a measurement is needed for the individual which is suitable for daily use but which does not detract from therapy time.The following article, which is an overview of my thesis‐led single case study, describes the impact of remedial support with horses on the mobility and spasticity of adults with cerebral palsy. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Michal Kaczor, | 2009 | Hippotherapy | INTRODUCTIONMany times in our therapeutic practice, we deal with some problematic behaviour of our patients, which may not be related… Show more (+) INTRODUCTIONMany times in our therapeutic practice, we deal with some problematic behaviour of our patients, which may not be related to the main (health) problems of our patients and are not resulting from patient’s disease entity. These burdensome behaviours can disturb the process of our therapy, so dealing with these behaviours is crucial for the whole therapy that we carry on. Therapeutic influence is closely related with having a good contact with our patients. Thus there is a place for behavioural therapies.METHODOften we cannot diagnose and all the more change environmental factors which influence our patient in his daily life, and which can be a reason of his negative behaviour. However, we can stipulate on the patient desirable reactions in certain situations that may take place during hippotherapy sessions. To cope with negative behaviours of my patients, as well as to achieve intended therapeutic effect, I have included in my hippotherapy sessions some elements taken from therapies based on behaviourism.In my article I will introduce some of the basics of behavioural psychotherapies and I will present how we can use it in therapeutic riding.RESULTSBehavioural techniques which I applied in my hippotherapy sessions proved to be an effective method to correct patient’s problematic behaviours. It also positively affected the quality of the relationship between the therapist and the patient. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Petra Nowak | 2009 | Education and Training | The purpose of this thesis is to clarify values of Finnish riding therapists in their practical work. Results may be… Show more (+) The purpose of this thesis is to clarify values of Finnish riding therapists in their practical work. Results may be used in aid to establish the code of ethics of Finnish riding therapy by the Finnish Riding Therapy Association. Thesis is also directed to the Finnish riding therapy students and professionals to give depth to the implementation of clinical work and to awaken to the consideration of ethics in therapy. Show less (-) | €5.00 |