Hippotherapy as one of the elements of comprehensive pediatric rehabilitation at the Zgorzelec Rehabilitation Center

Zbigniew Śliwiński, Anna Morawska, Bartłomiej Halat

Zbigniew Śliwiński, Anna Morawska, Bartłomiej Halat – Hippotherapy as one of the elements of comprehensive pediatric rehabilitation at the Zgorzelec Rehabilitation Center. Fizjoterapia Polska 2002; 2(3); 250-256

Abstract
The hyppotherapy is one of the form rehabilitation in the ICP. This manner of treat used only one kind of horse’s walk which name is walk. The horse riding normalizes the tension of muscles . It is connected with the correct position on horse , the rhythmic movement of rider, alternately flex and relax of muscle and the temperature of horse. The horse riding for children who don’t walk to let the felling the location own body in air space. In the hyppotherapy the authors distinguish ; therapeutic horse riding, horse’s rehabilitation, therapy by the contact with horse, pedagogic and therapeutic bareback riding, the horse riding for disabled people. The authors presented the indication to the horse riding- neurological syndromes, faulty posture genetic illness eg Down’ syndrome, myelomeningocele. They described also the contraindication eg. mental handicap, epilepsy, osteoporosis, injures on the of skin, retinodialises, injures or column, rethrolisteses and allergy to horse’s fur, sweat or odour. The authors presented also the rules comprehensive rehabilitation for children with ICP which is used in the Rehabilitation Center in Zgorzelec.

Key words:
ICP, hipotherapy form, idication and contridication

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