The clinical effect of hippotherapy on gross motor function of children with Cerebral Palsy
South African Journal of Physiotherapy
| Field | Value | |
| Title | The clinical effect of hippotherapy on gross motor function of children with Cerebral Palsy | |
| Creator | Litlle, K Nel, N Ortell, V van Wyk, H Badenhorst, M Louw, Q | |
| Description | Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability affecting gross motor function (GMF ) in early childhood. Hippotherapy is a treatment approach aimed at improving GMF in children with CP. Several systematic reviews have been published showing an improvement in Dimension E of the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM ) after hippotherapy. However, these reviews failed to evaluate the clinical effect of hippotherapy in improving GMF in children with CP.Objective: To critically appraise the evidence of hippotherapy to ascertain whether it is a clinically meaningful approach for children with CP.Methodology: Five computerised bibliographic databases were searched. Predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria were set. The PEDro scale was used to assess the quality of the studies. A revised JBI Data extraction tool was used to extract data from the selected articles. Revman© Review Manager Software was used to create forest plots for comparisons of results.Results: All studies used the GMFM as an outcome measure for gross motor function. The added benefit of hippotherapy is a minimum 1% and a maximum 7% increase on the GMFM scores. However, all 95% confidence intervals (CI ) around all the mean differences were insignificant.Conclusion: The clinical effect of hippotherapy on the GMF of children with CP is small. Larger studies are required to provide evidence of the effect of hippotherapy within this population. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2013-12-11 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajp.v69i2.321 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Physiotherapy; Vol 69, No 2 (2013); 26-34 2410-8219 0379-6175 | |
| Language | eng | |
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