Physical Rehabilitation Of Preschoolers With Cerebral Paralysis By Means Of Hippotherapy

Abstract

Social integration and comprehensive rehabilitation of people with disabilities with cerebral palsy occupies one of the leading places in physical rehabilitation. In all corners of the globe, medical workers and specialists of therapeutic physical culture constantly use the means of hippotherapy (Equine-assisted therapy) as a rehabilitation of people with cerebral palsy. The authors developed and tested the technique of hippotherapy in the process of development of motor functions and the formation of skills of household self-care in children aged 4-6 with the manifestation of a spastic form of infantile cerebral palsy. Subjects had different degrees of motor disorders; the average assessment of the degree of clinical manifestations prior to the start of the experiment was 2.2 points. The technique includes three stages of conducting exercises with the performance of exercises riding on the horse, aimed at normalizing the pathological muscle tone, the formation of the correct motor stereotype, the stimulation of tactile and proprioceptive sensitivity, the development of motor skills and the reduction of dysarthria, increasing the level of motor functions, which contributes to social rehabilitation of children with this disease. A low degree of social adaptation is due to the age of sick children and the short duration of mastering skills, as well as excessive guardianship by parents.

The Function of Maintaining Body Balance in Students Involved in Various Sports

“…Each reaction of the body to the influence from the outside is accompanied by a certain reaction of its vegetative structures and muscles, contributing to the maintenance of homeostasis (Amelina & Medvedev, 2009;Bespalov et al, 2018b;Moubarez et al, 2019;Amiri et al, 2020). The leading role in this process is played by maintaining the position of the body in space, as well as maintaining the optimum biochemical and physiological processes occurring in all cells of the body (Karpov et al, 2018;Makhov & Medvedev, 2018a). The function of maintaining body balance in the environment is of great importance for successful sports activity (Vuillerme & Boisgontier, 2008).…”

Possibilities of Students' Health Improvement through Physical Training in the Aquatic Environment

“…During swimming, the heart muscle quickly strengthens, and the tone of its vessels is normalized. This provides an optimum supply of oxygen and nutrients to cardiomyocytes (Karpov et al, 2018). Due to this, during swimming in cardiac patients, the whole organism is stimulated (Tkacheva and Zavalishina, 2018b).…”

Influence of Regular Basketball Practice in Adolescence on the Functional Capacity of the Heart

“…Often in long-term athletes, the volume of the myocardium, especially the left ventricle, increases, and sometimes its volume decreases (Karpov et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2021). At the same time, those who have started regular physical training may have a lower ejection volume than physically untrained people (Bespalov et al, 2018a;Guo et al, 2020;Makhov & Medvedev, 2020b).…”

“…Due to the great biological significance of the normal functioning of the heart, it is necessary to continue an active study of the adaptive mechanisms of its activity in conditions of regular basketball loads (Makhov & Medvedev, 2018d;Medvedev, 2018c). To optimize the process of basketball training, designed to ensure high professionalism of trainees, regular studies of various aspects of heart activity in basketball players should be carried out (Oshurkova & Medvedev, 2018a;Stepanova et al, 2018).…”