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The purpose of this case report is to describe the impact
of an 11-week
hippotherapy program on the gross motor functions of two children (respectively
28 and 37 months old) diagnosed with Down syndrome. Hippotherapy is a strategy
that uses the horse's motion to stimulate and enhance muscle contraction and
postural control. The children were assessed by the Gross Motor Function Measure
(GMFM) and accelerometry.
The results indicate that both children improved on
many dimensions of the GMFM. Power spectral analysis of the acceleration signals
showed improvement in postural control of either the head or trunk, because the
children adopted two different adaptative strategies to perturbation induced by
the moving horse.

Langue : ANGLAIS