NCT03024099

Effects of Weekly Hippotherapy Frequency on Children With Cerebral Palsy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Brasilia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years – 4 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The hippotherapy is considered a therapeutic modality that provides numerous benefits in the rehabilitation process and has often been recommended by doctors for children with cerebral palsy. Despite being in frank ascent, this therapy still lacks scientific evidence. Objectives: To analyze and compare the effects of hippotherapy program, often 1 or 2 days a week in gross motor function, trunk balance and functional performance of children with cerebral palsy.

Detailed description

Study characterized by a controlled experiment with a sample of 24 children, aged between 2 and 4 years, were randomly divided into control group (CG), with 9 participants, with the use of 1 to week and experimental group, also with 11 participants, 2 times a week intervention. The call followed protocol and took place once or twice a week lasting 30 minutes.

Conditions

• Cerebral Palsy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Hippotherapy once a week	Hippotherapy once a week
OTHER	Hippotherapy twice a week	Hippotherapy twice a week

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-01-19
• First posted: 2017-01-18
• Last updated: 2019-04-17