Positive influence of hippotherapy on the process of improvement of children with cerebral palsy in children

Cywińska Oliwia, Gawrych Szymon, Białkowska Aleksandra, Budziejko Blanka, Dziarkowski Dariusz, Kurtyka Daria, Różański Gracjan, Dobosiewicz Anna Maria, Badiuk Nataliia. Positive influence of hippotherapy on the process of improvement of children with cerebral palsy in children. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(11):813-823. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3235955

http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6979

The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017).

1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7

© The Author(s) 2018;

This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland

Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,

provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.

This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial

use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Received: 19.11.2018. Revised: 22.11.2018. Accepted: 30.11.2018.

Positive influence of hippotherapy on the process of improvement of children with cerebral palsy in children

Oliwia Cywińska1, Szymon Gawrych1, Aleksandra Białkowska1, Blanka Budziejko1, Dariusz Dziarkowski1, Daria Kurtyka1, Gracjan Różański1, Anna Maria Dobosiewicz1, Nataliia Badiuk2

1Scientific Circle of Exercise Physiology at Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Ergonomics. Division of Ergonomics and Exercise Physiology, Nicolaus Copernicus Univeristy in Toruń, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland

2State Enterprise Ukrainian Research Institute for Medicine of Transport,

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Odesa, Ukraine

Corresponding author: Anna Maria Dobosiewicz, annamdobo@gmail.com

Abstract:

Cerebral palsy is one of the most common neurological diseases in children. An important aspect of improvement is the development of motor functions, self-service, communication and social skills. Therefore, rehabilitation, in all forms one of them is hippotherapy, must be focused on motor education, as well as on improving the child's psyche. The beneficial effect of a horse is that it controls muscle tension, strengthens flaccid muscles and relaxes shortened muscles, which prevents contractures. Therapeutic riding improves the quality of life of such children, allows them to open up to the world, thus activating them and creating interaction between the child and the horse, and this improves their physical and mental condition. Hippotherapy is one of the most effective complementary therapeutic methods used to improve children with cerebral palsy.

Key words: hippotherapy, cerebral palsy, improvement