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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 | ||
Joanna Dzwonkowska | 2008 | Hippotherapy | I have been working for the last twelve years as a hippotherapist and speech therapist with children having various kinds… Show more (+) I have been working for the last twelve years as a hippotherapist and speech therapist with children having various kinds and degrees of disability. Many of my patients experience serious difficulties in communicating with their surroundings due to varying levels of mental handicap, central nervous system damage, or simple delay in speech development. These problems are manifested either in the lack of or difficulties with verbal expression, or in the lack of any understandable forms for conveying messages using sound or gesture.The basic question I ever address is, "exactly how is speech to serve my handicapped patients?".I wish to present in this paper my thoughts and experience in working with children with serious difficulties in communicating, along with the way in which hippotherapy sessions are helpful in developing their communication skills.To begin with, let us examine some notions connected with communication. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Ann O’Shallie | 2008 | Equine Studies | Understanding the horse's natural movement and the factors affecting natural movement is imperative for riding instructors, therapeutic riding instructors and… Show more (+) Understanding the horse's natural movement and the factors affecting natural movement is imperative for riding instructors, therapeutic riding instructors and equine specialists.To positively utilize the movement of the horse in the therapy and therapeutic venues, the instructor, therapist and equine specialist must understand the effects of weight carrying capacity, saddle fit, and adaptive equipment on the horse's normal movement. By incorporating this knowledge in our teaching and husbandry, we will be better stewards for our equine partners by keeping them physically sound and mentally fresh and providing our riders with appropriate and effective movement and learning opportunities. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Thomas STEPHENSON, Roswitha ZINK | 2008 | Learning and Psychoeducation | Equotherapy is a therapeutic method using specially trained horses. It is based onthe skill of the horses to read body… Show more (+) Equotherapy is a therapeutic method using specially trained horses. It is based onthe skill of the horses to read body language and expression of clients and show it toa therapist similar to biofeedback. One of the principle foundations is rooted in new knowledge gained from neuromedicine' and deep psychology, which can be appliedto a non-verbal dialog between horses and clients. Equotherapy is used to help people cope with psychological and emotional problems, which could be caused by illness, disabilities or traumatic experiences. E.motion, the Center of Equotherapie, works in close cooperation with the Social Medical Center Otto Wagner Hospital Vienna and with Paediatric Units of other Viennese Hospitals.The goal of this study-group is to contribute to the scientific research and establish and professionalize the use of horses within therapeutic methods. This is with the cooperation of the University of Vienna, the Veterinary University and e.motion.With the study "Nonverbale Kommunikation - ist ein interspezifischer Dialog zwischen Mensch und pferd quantifizierbar?"2 Kate Shein already made a first step to investigate nonverbal communication between human and horse. It was possible to improve her methods and so the investigation of this new field could be continued.The Equotherapy study-group will do a random survey with children and teenagerswho receive Equotherapy treatment. The group will analyze video and find non-verbal communication patterns. Within the disciplinary overlaps of medicine, psychology and pedagogy, a quantitative analysis will be completed by qualitative observational aspects.The study-group will start with the following main themes:- Diagnosis with .horses: use open interaction with a horse to diagnostically andtherapeutically assess the emotional and psychological structures of a client.- Analogy of non-verbal interactive processes: mother-infant interaction and horse-clientinteraction in Equotheraphy in special consideration of affectivity.- Open interaction with a horse as a "scene": how does open body language interactionwith the horse display itself? Video study from praxis as if it were "scenes". Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Gondi Kunz | 2008 | Mental Health | In my capacity as a clinical psychotherapist and therapist I have for many years been in a position to observe… Show more (+) In my capacity as a clinical psychotherapist and therapist I have for many years been in a position to observe the profound fascination which the many-facetted work with horses exerts on anorexia women.I decided, therefore, within the framework of an empiric doctoral study (2004, University of Vienna) to examine the experiential qualities as well as the effects of therapeutic riding on women with anorexia nervosa, given special consideration to the in depth psychotherapy aspects. Apart from the experience relating to the direct physical contact with the horse, the emotional aspects of the relationship (grooming, care, feeding etc) were also examined.In addition I explored the influence of illness-related personality trails as well as changing, life-altering conditions on the subjective perception of the riding therapy.Since I also considered it important to take into account the point of view and theopinions of riding therapists who work with anorexia people, I conducted a written survey on the relevant findings, experiences and working approaches on the part of the therapists. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Jyrki Nikanne | 2008 | Mental Health | Paloniemi Hospital belongs to the Hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa and is the psychiatric in-patient unit in Lohja area… Show more (+) Paloniemi Hospital belongs to the Hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa and is the psychiatric in-patient unit in Lohja area. The hospital has run its own riding therapy unit since year 1997. Even before that riding therapy was carried out in a smaller scale from the year 1993 on. At the moment there are three trained riding therapists and four horses working in the therapy unit. The unit serves both psychiatric out and in-patients. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Korhonen Tuula, Mattila-Rautiainen Sanna, Nyman Markku,Tossavainen Seija, | 2008 | Hippotherapy | Chronic low back pain is one of the most common disabilities among adults in the industrial countries. Most of the… Show more (+) Chronic low back pain is one of the most common disabilities among adults in the industrial countries. Most of the patients who use the services of the Kainuu Central hospital pain clinic suffer from low back pain. IASP (International Association of the study of Pain) defines pain as unpleasant sensory or emotional experience with possible or clear tissue damage, or which is described at the same way. Acute and chronic pain differ from each other clearly. Acute pain warns about danger that is threatening the human body. This starts us to evaluate the situation and to act upon the danger. Behind an acute pain is always some somatic disturbance or disease. Acute pain causes also many changes in the autonomic nervous system; blood pressure, muscle tension and heart rate raise when the body is in the alarm position. Chronic pain doesn't warn the body about threatening danger because clear pathology doesn't always exist. Chronic pain reduces human life. It causes zest for life, tiring and reluctance. The chronic pain brings also following symptoms: sleeping disturbances, depression, social isolation, unemployment and loss of control of life. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Anna Strumınska, | 2008 | Therapeutic Riding | The joint travel of a man with a horse began many thousand years ago and it still goes on. The… Show more (+) The joint travel of a man with a horse began many thousand years ago and it still goes on. The external world changes, the civilisation development limits it greatly in time and space, but luckily, the horse's nature does not change. Contrary to the appearances, the human nature has not changed, either. What changed, are conditions in which the man comes to develop, to grow up and live in our times. The civilisation revolutionwe witness changes all our life. The greatest changes, however, take place in life of the youngest representatives of the society, and certain dangers are related to it. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Ann O'Shallie, | 2008 | Therapeutic Riding | Osteogenesis imperfecta appears to be an infrequent hereditary disease induced bythe disturbance of biosynthesis of the I type collagen. The… Show more (+) Osteogenesis imperfecta appears to be an infrequent hereditary disease induced bythe disturbance of biosynthesis of the I type collagen. The disease is characterizedby frequent fractures, as well as by deformations of different types. The treatment of patients suffering from osteogenesis imperfecta with medicinal gymnastics has attracted an attention and obtained the recognition only in the recent years. Taking into accounta specificity of the disease we have tried to enhance the process of bone remodelingusing an original method of ridetherapy and at the same time to induce reinforcement of muscular system which would decrease the number of fractures and give the possibility of independent movement to children suffering from this disease. Show less (-) | €5.00 |