Hippotherapy as a treatment for socialization after sexual abuse and emotional stress
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- Guerino Marcelo R.
- Department of Physical Therapy, UFPE-Federal University of Pernambuco: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego 1235, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE 50670-901, Brazil
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- Briel Alysson F.
- Department of Physical Therapy, UNOPAR, Brazil
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- Araújo Maria das Graças Rodrigues
- Department of Physical Therapy, UFPE-Federal University of Pernambuco: Av. Prof. Moraes Rego 1235, Cidade Universitária, Recife, PE 50670-901, Brazil
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[Purpose] Hippotherapy is a therapeutic resource that uses the horse as a kinesiotherapy instrument to elicit motor and cognitive improvements in individuals with special needs. [Subjects and Methods] This research evaluated two women aged 18 and 21 years, who had suffered sexual violence when they were children between the ages of 6 and 7 years old. The subjects did not have mental dysfunction but they were regular students registered at a school of special education. The patients presented severe motor limitation, difficulty with coordination, significant muscular retractions, thoracic and cervical kyphosis, cervical protrusion wich was basically a function of the postures they had adopted when victims of the sexual violence suffered in childhood. The patients performed twenty sessions of 30 minutes of hippotherapy on a horse. The activities were structured to stimulate coordination, proprioception, the vestibular and motor-sensorial systems for the improvement of posture, muscle activity and cognition. [Results] The activities provided during the hippotherapy sessions elicited alterations in postural adjustment resulting in 30% improvement, 80% improvement in coordination in, 50% improvement in corporal balance and in sociability and self-esteem. [Conclusion] Hippotherapy proved to be an effective treatment method for coordination, balance and postural correction, and also improved the patients’ self-esteem that had suffered serious emotional stress.
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- J Phys Ther Sci
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J Phys Ther Sci 27 (3), 959-962, 2015
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- NII論文ID
- 130005061703
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- ISSN
- 21875626
- 09155287
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