Material de montaria para equoterapia em indivíduos com síndrome de Down: estudo eletromiográfico

• Main Authors: Ana Paula Espindula, Iramaia Salomão Alexandre de Assis, Mayara Simões, Mariane Fernandes Ribeiro, Alex Abadio Ferreira, Patrícia Fonseca Ferraz, Isabella Cardoso Cunha, Mara Lúcia da Fonseca Ferraz, Luciane Aparecida Pascucci Sande de Souza, Domingos Emanuel Bevilacqua Junior, Vicente de Paula Antunes Teixeira
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Nove de Julho 2014-01-01
• Series: ConScientiae Saúde
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=92932100004
• ISSN: 1677-1028; 1983-9324

Introduction: Individuals with Down syndrome have peculiar characteristics of the anomaly, the main and most common is muscle hypotonia. Objective: To check the best material to mount and position the feet for the recruitment of the trunk muscles of children with Down syndrome using the treatment of hippo - therapy. Methods: Five riders with DS were assessed using surface electromy - ography during four sessions of therapeutic riding. Statistic analysis: data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis non parametric test. Results: The material riding blanket associated with the feet out of the stirrup elicited greater recruit - ment of the muscles being studied, the muscle of the cervical region being trig - gered the most. Conclusion: Through this pilot study we infer that the blanket with feet out of the stirrup promoted a better optimization of the tone of the individuals included in the study.