HIPPOTHERAPY IN POSTURAL BALANCE OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS

• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Karla Mendonça
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Flores, Fabiana Moraes, Vargas, Fernanda de Moraes, Trevisan, Claudia Morais, Copetti, Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/14470

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and progressive disease induced by autoimmune inflammatory responses that attack myelin of the nerve tissue, with changes in postural balance being common manifestations in MS. Objective: Verify if the hippotherapy, inserted as a complementary activity, influences the postural balance of MS patients. Method: A total of six cases were evaluated. The performance of postural balance was assessed by the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) before and after 30 sessions of hippotherapy, performed twice a week, over a period of four months. Results: After the intervention, there was an increase in scores on BBS in four individuals and two of them maintained their scores. Conclusions: The stimulation of hippotherapy as a complementary activity proved to be able to improve the results of performance in functional tasks that require static and dynamic balance, assessed by BBS.