Role and Effects of Hippotherapy in the Treatment of Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review of the Literature
| Autor: | Jonathan Cortés-Martín, María José Menor-Rodríguez, Raquel Rodríguez-Blanque, Juan Carlos Sánchez-García, Maria Montiel-Troya, Mar Sevilla Martín |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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030506 rehabilitation
medicine.medical_specialty Physical disability Inclusion (disability rights) Hippotherapy medicine.medical_treatment Review Cerebral palsy 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation children medicine Equine-assisted therapy Children cerebral palsy Rehabilitation business.industry equine assisted therapy Cognition General Medicine hippotherapy medicine.disease Equine assisted therapy Systematic review Medicine 0305 other medical science business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Digibug: Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada Universidad de Granada (UGR) Journal of Clinical Medicine Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 10, Iss 2589, p 2589 (2021) Digibug. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Granada instname |
| ISSN: | 2077-0383 |
| Popis: | We thank our medical translator Megan Berry for her services and comments that contributed to improving the manuscript for publication. Cerebral palsy is described as a group of permanent neuromotor-type disorders caused by non-progressive injuries in the developmental stages of the central nervous system, and which have serious repercussions on the quality of life of affected children due to the physical and psychological damage it entails for them. Today, it is the leading cause of physical disability in childhood. Since there is no cure for this disorder, treatment is based on the improvement of symptoms, which is not always achieved through conventional therapies. For this reason, the need arises to investigate other alternative therapies, such as hippotherapy, to determine the main effects of hippotherapy as a rehabilitation therapy in children with cerebral palsy. The review was performed in accordance with the criteria of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol and was registered under the number CRD42021233003. The databases used were PubMed, Dialnet and the web browser Google Scholar. After applying the inclusion criteria, we included 11 articles. As a conclusion, we found that hippotherapy provides benefits at physical, psychological, cognitive and social levels in children with cerebral palsy, and thus it should be considered as a complementary rehabilitation therapy to conventional treatments. |
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