[Advantages of ride therapy in different forms of infantile cerebral palsy (therapeutic riding)].
One hundred children with cerebral palsy, aged 3-14 years, were divided into two equal groups, the first one including 50 children assigned to ride therapy and the second one--to Bobath therapeutic gymnastics. All the patients underwent a functional examination, which was rated using score system worked out by the authors, thus enabling a quantitative evaluation of treatment efficacy. In all the cases, physical rehabilitation resulted in a positive but not the same effect, with ride therapy being significantly (p < 0.001) more beneficial treatment compared to therapeutic gymnastics. Ride therapy provides an acquisition of new movement skills, spastics and hyperkinesis reduction and an extreme mobilization of compensatory abilities of developing children brain.
Ionatamishvili
N I
NI
Tsverava
D M
DM
Loriia
M Sh
MSh
Avaliani
L A
LA
D000818:Animals; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans