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Joyce MacKinnon, | 2005 | Writing and Doing Research | The objective of this manuscript is to give the novice hippotherapy researchersome guidance in preparing an article for publication. Some… Show more (+) The objective of this manuscript is to give the novice hippotherapy researchersome guidance in preparing an article for publication. Some researchers are of the mistaken opinion that if they simply express their ideas, the editor will do the rest. This could not be further from the truth. The article must follow carefully the guidelines of the journal to which the article will be submitted. For researchers who publish frequently, this will mean anywhere from three to eight drafts of the complete paper, with each iteration improving upon the details of the document. The typical sections of a paper include the following areas: abstract, introduction, literature review, the purpose of the study, the research hypothesis or question, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references, and acknowledgements. This paper will conclude with some practical tips to remember when writing a paper for publication. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Tracy Wharton,Marguerite Malone,Beth Macauley, | 2005 | Equine Studies | Equine facilitated psychotherapy and speech-language therapy have become increasinglypopular models in recent years. According to the North American Riding for… Show more (+) Equine facilitated psychotherapy and speech-language therapy have become increasinglypopular models in recent years. According to the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, "more than 32,000 individuals benefit from equine facilitated activities at nearly700 NARHA (accredited) centers throughout the United States and Canada," to say nothing of the hundreds of centers or practitioners who are not members of this organization (NARHA, 2003). Service providers range across the disciplines, often including nursing, psychology,social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, communication and educational professionals, along with riding instructors, equine trainers and managers, and business staff. On a strictly business level, the number of therapy farms that operate with a budget greater than $300,000 annually has steadily grown in the last decade. While most providers are hardly that large, collectively the sheer size of the population being served makes this industry an important area of focus for administrators and providers alike.Organizations and providers of all disciplines must be ever mindful to protect the resources that make interventions with clients successful, and in the human service domains, the primary resource is the therapy provider. The threat of burn out and secondary traumatization to mental health providers is very real. Correspondingly, there has finally begun to be concern in the mental health and veterinary industries about the strain that this work places on the animals, who are considered to be partners in the treatment of human clients (Kohanov, 2004; Malone, 2004; Rector, 2003). Due to the unusual demands placed on these animals through specialized training, unpredictable client behavior, and what has been termed "sympathetic response" in animals to the emotional states of humans, there is interest in analyzing the biological responses of the animals to various factors in the therapy environment, in order to learn how to minimize the stressors placed on the animals, protect their long-tenn health, and support their role in the therapy process (Kohanov, 2004; Malone, 2004; O'Rourke, 2004).Serendipity Farm in Tuscaloosa, AL, began to collect data on animals, clients, therapists and farm staff in 2003, in order to begin to look at the variables that impact the success of the programs, and the long-term health and comfort of the animal providers. As access to a veterinarian for complex medical procedures is by consult only at this farm, simple measures that could be reliably and easily taken over a long period of time were taken on the animals. Pulse and respiration were chosen as measures of increased stress, based on knowledge of horse physiology and considering the need for a measure that all farm staff could be trained to accurately record. According to Dr. Beth Macauley, director ofBama Equine Assisted Therapy, and Dr. Marguerite Malone, director of Serendipity Farm, elevated pulse and respiration are automatic stress responses in both humans and animals. Since increased pulse rates are an indicator of increased stress in horses, this measure was used as a dependent variable in a search for the best prediction model.During this collection of data, other researchers in the field of animal assisted therapy began to investigate the connection between animal stress and variables in the environment.Data has begun to emerge to support the assertion that some types of therapy are more stressful on the animals than other types of therapy (McCabe, 2005, in press; O'Rourke, 2004). Asa response to the general call for additional information, and in further investigation of emerging evidence, analysis was undertaken of data collected at Serendipity Farm over one calendar year, to assess the impact of variables in the environment on the overall stress levels of the horses, and to determine if there are·points of intervention which may be important for farm staff and administrators to acknowledge for the long-term support of the therapy teams. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Joyce MacKinnon, | 2005 | Writing and Doing Research | In order to answer these questions, regarding the status and development ofhippotherapy research and where we should go from here… Show more (+) In order to answer these questions, regarding the status and development ofhippotherapy research and where we should go from here, it is necessary to include the larger umbrella label of therapeutic horseback riding (THR). If one were to consider only hippotherapy, this chapter would be very limited in space, content, and benefit to the reader. By including the larger body of literature regarding THR, then we have a larger body of material to examine and analyze and from which we can move forward.The purpose, then, of this chapter is to examine the research that has been generated in recent years, critically analyze it, and make some comment'about the limitations of the research with regards to the researchers' purported objectives in performing the research. To undertake this exercise, it was reasonable t9 look to a body responsible for the leadership and generation of research in this domain. While there may be other sources,. it was appropriate, valuable and manageable to review all the research articles published in The Scientific and Educational Journal of Therapeutic Riding, an international journal on riding for the disabled, first published in 1997. From the analysis of these writings, a pathway can be created along which hippotherapy researchers may direct their energies. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Cristine Drewry, Beth L. Macauley, | 2004 | Hippotherapy | In order to determine whether hippotherapy facilitates spontaneous communication in a young adult with a severe traumatic brain injury, the… Show more (+) In order to determine whether hippotherapy facilitates spontaneous communication in a young adult with a severe traumatic brain injury, the number of communication initiations was recorded during a baseline phase, traditional treatment, hippotherapy, and generalization phase. Results indicated that the participant initiated communication using picture cards 0% of opportunities during baseline and traditional treatment, 60% of opportunities during hippotherapy, and 39% during generalization. It ispossible that hippotherapy stimulates the attentional systems of the body resulting in increased desire and motivation to communicate. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Nino Ionatamishvili , Dimitri Tsverava, Manana Loria, Lali Avaliani, Manana Rukhadze | 2004 | Therapeutic Riding | Ingles et al (3) summarize the diagnosis of cerebral palsy as a "syndrome of sensorymotor dysfunction due to non-progressive brain… Show more (+) Ingles et al (3) summarize the diagnosis of cerebral palsy as a "syndrome of sensorymotor dysfunction due to non-progressive brain damage that has usually taken place pre- or-perenatally.These patients commonly show disorders of posture and of gait, and stereotyped abnormal patterns of movements. They suffer from both spastic and flaccid paralyses as well as characteristic involuntary, at heptode movements".Child cerebral palsy (CCP) covers all aspects of disorders of motor, sensor systems and those structures that as a result of studding should become a base of highest activity forms that we call highest cortical functions. Consequently, involving various combinations of motor (pyramid, striopalid, cerebellar), sensor disorders and retardation different CCP forms require early revelation of compensatory abilities in childhood and its maximum usage. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Karol Hornacek, | 2004 | Hippotherapy | Influencing posture plays a vital role in Horseback-Riding Therapy (Hippotherapy, 'HT'). Posture both reflects and influences the condition of the… Show more (+) Influencing posture plays a vital role in Horseback-Riding Therapy (Hippotherapy, 'HT'). Posture both reflects and influences the condition of the entire human body. By posture, we mean all human motor skills whose aim it is to maintain balance (Guth, et aI, 2004). Often, when discussing the characteristics of posture, various explanations of Sherrington 's (1906), respectively Magnus' (1916), statement that 'Posture follows movement like a shadow' are given. Ifwe assume that posture is at the beginning and end of every movement, and is a part and foundational condition of them, then the achievement of standing correctly with perfect posture is considered to be the primary function of the muscular system and, indirectly, of other systems of the human body, as well.Today, most diagnoses of problems related posture are based on the concept of 'perfect standing posture'. While this approach gets results in practice, it cannot be considered the only or best method of dealing with the problem. On the contrary, 'perfect standing posture', cannot even be singularly defined. No reliable or definitive definition exists. For that reason, the best approach in dealing with posture disorders in clinical medicine is one based on postural ontogenesis, particularly in regards to individual factors relating to postural activity and re-activity. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Anna Pasquinelli, Paola Allori, Meike Susann Raupach, Ettore Caterino | 2004 | Therapeutic Riding | Torsion Dystonia (TD) is one of the most disabling and less responsive Extrapyramidal Disorders (ED), but no specific reports on… Show more (+) Torsion Dystonia (TD) is one of the most disabling and less responsive Extrapyramidal Disorders (ED), but no specific reports on the application of Therapeutic Riding (TR) are found in the literature. We report the results in 4 children affected by severe generalized TD assessed by our nTR ED Assessment Scale n. The horseback posture alone dramatically inhibits dystonic postural patterns e.g. torsion, opisthotonus, segmentary inconsistency, which are further reduced by the horse smovement with the prompt acquisition of a more functional posture. This dramatic responsiveness proves that TR can represent a real possibility of rehabilitation for these S. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
H. Marie Suthers-McCabe, Lynn Albano | 2004 | Equine Studies | This exploratory study was designed to measure stress in therapy horses. Plasma cortisol was used as physiological marker of stress… Show more (+) This exploratory study was designed to measure stress in therapy horses. Plasma cortisol was used as physiological marker of stress. Each horse was videotaped during the therapy session and tapes were reviewedfor conflict indicators. Blood was drawnfrom a total of28 horses of approximately J5 different breeds, with 5 horses participating on two separate days for a total of 33 samples. Blood was drawn prior to a therapy session and again immediately after the session was completed. As a group, cortisol levels decreased by a mean of 24.07 nmol/L with a standard error of 5.993 and p=0.0003. The results indicate that 82% of these therapy horses are not experiencing significant physiological stress. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Eva Schnieder | 2004 | Vaulting | Being an enthusiastic horsewoman I was aware early on of something which I later came across in books and specialist… Show more (+) Being an enthusiastic horsewoman I was aware early on of something which I later came across in books and specialist literature: that is, that it is not just sitting on horseback which is so pleasant and beneficial but the mere fact also of simply being with the horse.Following the completion of my degree in psychology I considered that the training in Remedial Educational Vaulting (REV) at the Austrian Kuratorium for Therapeutic Riding would be an ideal combination of hobby and profession. It w~s during the course of my studies, while I was engaged in practical training with the "OsterreichischenAutistenhilfe" (Austrian Help for Autistic People) that I first came in contact with autistic people; I was fascinated by the special nature of autism and from that time on I occupied myself intensively with the subject, read numerous books about it and worked frequently with autistic children and their families. Even then I was struck most of all by the severe disorder that autistic people have in their ability to make contact: their apparent inability to make contact with the world around them in the usual manner. Show less (-) | €5.00 | ||
Leopordo. Gonçalves. Letiao, | 2003 | Learning and Psychoeducation | This exploratory study aimed to determine if, after the application of Psycho- Educational Riding (PER) (one session per week for… Show more (+) This exploratory study aimed to determine if, after the application of Psycho- Educational Riding (PER) (one session per week for sixteen weeks), we would monitor: improvements in different aspects of development and behaviour, offive autistic children (between five and ten years of age); data that might confirm the effectiveness of PER; the development of the necessary skills leading to an increasingly improved peljormance of the proposed tasks during the sessions. The methodology usedfocussed on the written composition of all sessions; on the employment of the Observational Grid (individuallsession)for Psycho-Educational Riding (PER) with autistic children; in the application, to the participants, of the Psychoeducational Profile Revised (Schopler, et a!' 1994), prior to and after the treatment; the parents were asked tofill out the Autism Treatment of Evaluation Checklist (Rimland & Edelson, 2000), every two weeks; and, at last, audiovisual techniques were also applied on a monthly basis. The results fulfilled all the hypotheses raised at the start of this study. This evidence raises the question on the importance of the horse's catalytic role in the core of a technician-child relationship, which must be viewed as crucial. Show less (-) | €5.00 |