Summary of the Systematic Review

ARTICLE CITATION

The Clinical Effect of Hippotherapy on Gross Motor Function of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Little, Nel, Ortell, Van Wyk, Badenhorst, Louw

South African Journal of Physiotherapy (2013) 

 

ARTICLE DETAILS

Description

To critically appraise the evidence of hippotherapy to ascertain whether it is a clinically meaningful approach for children with CP.

Five computerised bibliographic databases were searched. Predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria were set. The PEDro scale was used to assess the quality of the studies. A revised JBI Data extraction tool was used to extract data from the selected articles. Revman© Review Manager Software was used to create forest plots for comparisons of results.

Profession 

Physical Therapist 

Location 

South Africa 

Intervention Terminology

HPOT

Study Design 

Case-series study/systematic review of 6 articles

Sample

10-75 individually, overall 167

Age/Population

2- 12 Years 

Assessment/ Outcome measure tools

SR of studies with GMFM

Result Category 

Gross Motor

Dosage/Description of Intervention

Varied