Pulmonary Function and Aerobic Capacity Responses to Equine Assisted Therapy in Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• DOI: 10.2340/jrm.v54.1085
• Publication Date: 2022-06-02T14:58:48Z
• Authors: Mohamed A. Abdel ...; Osama R. Abdelraouf; Amr A. Abdel-aziem; Tamer E. Elnegamy; Mariam E. Mohamed; Amr M. Yehia; Gihan Samir Mousa
• Keywords: Vital capacity; Idiopathic scoliosis

Idiopathic scoliosis is a common spinal malalignment that negatively impacts the respiratory system and physical conditioning in adolescents. Equine-assisted therapy comprises therapeutic horseback riding optimizes performance mobility range of contexts. However, influence equine-assisted on pulmonary function remains unclear.To examine impact 10 weeks hippotherapy combined with Schroth exercises aerobic capacity adolescents idiopathic scoliosis.A randomized controlled trial including 45 patients, randomly assigned to experimental control groups, was performed. Patients group received 15 30-min sessions over period weeks. The 2 groups attended 60-min session 3 times/week for Pulmonary functional were assessed before after intervention.Pre- post-intervention variables (FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC, MVV 6MWT) revealed significant improvement both (p < 0.05). significantly higher than 0.05).The addition resulted improved scoliosis.