O perfil dos equinos que atuam na equoterapia

Abstract

The equine therapy is a therapeutic and educational approach guided by an interdisciplinary approach seeking the recovery of people with disabilities and / or with special needs. In hippotherapy, the use of the horse is essential for achieving various objectives motor, cognitive and affective. The objective of the present study reporting the profile of horses used in the first therapeutic riding program (Hippotherapy) through descriptive experimental testing, data collection in Brazilian equine therapy centers on a form sent via email and additionally report a training experience of two animals for hippotherapy. To carry out this study was performed in one journal CAPES research using databases such as PubMed, SCOPUS, MEDLINE, LILACS SCIELO And considering the period from 1994 to 2014. Given that most practitioners who use hippotherapy program are people with cerebral palsy, a higher level of commitment, the search was performed using the indexes in English hippotherapy and cerebral palsy. For the experimental test found 128 works, of which 50 selected and 70 excluded for non-adherence to the theme, full article to difficult access and do not reflect the paralysis in hippotherapy. For data collection centers were sent 233 forms were received and 17 to be analyzed was the participation of centers of north, northeast, south and southeast. The horse is the key element of the therapeutic process is the most important figure, however, in the literature there is a great difficulty in finding work related to the horse riding therapy. Therefore, people who work in this area should give more emphasis to the animal, develop more scientific works that portray this member indispensable for the session, so we can get more and more knowledge about these therapeutic facilitators so important to people's lives.