Research in developmental disabilities.
Publisher:
Pergamon Press,
Frequency: Six no. a year,
Country: United States
Language: English
Start Year:1987 -
ISSN:
0891-4222 (Print)
1873-3379 (Electronic)
0891-4222 (Linking)
1873-3379 (Electronic)
0891-4222 (Linking)
Impact Factor
3.1
2022
| NLM ID: | 8709782 |
| (DNLM): | SR0060495(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 14765885 |
| Coden: | RDDIEF |
| LCCN: | 87644757 |
| Classification: | W1 RE227FIH |
Lived experiences of parents of children with disabilities engaged in a support group incorporating equines. Parenting a child with disabilities comes with significant challenges to parental quality of life, often resulting in decreased physical, mental, and social health when compared to parents who raise typically developing children. Objective: To address the needs of this population a 10-week interdisciplinary support group, based in attachment theory and incorporating equines, was developed called Taking the Reins of Self-care. Methods: Designed to utilize the human-equine bond, the support group facilitated development of self-care strategies to increase quality of life of 6 parents of children...
Different horse’s paces during hippotherapy on spatio-temporal parameters of gait in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy: A feasibility study. Hippotherapy is often carried out for the rehabilitation of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP), with the horse riding at a walking pace. This study aimed to explore the immediate effects of a hippotherapy protocol using a walk-trot pace on spatio-temporal gait parameters and muscle tone in children with Bilateral Spastic CP (BS-CP). Ten children diagnosed with BS-CP and 10 healthy aged-matched children (reference group) took part in this study. The children with BS-CP underwent two sessions of hippotherapy for one week of washout between them. Two protocols (lasting 30min) were applied on separ...
Muscle reaction function of individuals with intellectual disabilities may be improved through therapeutic use of a horse. Reaction time and muscle activation deficits might limit the individual's autonomy in activities of daily living and in participating in recreational activities. The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of a 14-week hippotherapy exercise program on movement reaction time and muscle activation in adolescents with intellectual disability (ID). Nineteen adolescents with moderate ID were assigned either to an experimental group (n=10) or a control group (n=9). The experimental group attended a hippotherapy exercise program, consisting of two 30-min sessions per week for 14 weeks. Rea...