Rehabilitation engineering study of therapeutic horsebackriding for disabled children using the traditional Japanese horse "Kiso-Uma"

自20世纪60年代以来，人们对治疗性骑马的潜力越来越感兴趣，相应的，治疗性骑马项目的数量激增。尽管治疗性骑马项目增长如此之快，然而，支持关于治疗性骑马益处的说法的科学证据却很少。缺乏确凿的证据可能会限制治疗性马背的发展。摘要本研究旨在运用康复工程方法评估残疾儿童骑马训练的效果。在文献调查中，从国际科学期刊中获得10篇关于治疗性骑马的原创论文，并将其翻译成日语。在实验研究中，利用加速度图和肌电图对人与马在骑马过程中的运动进行了分析。生物力学和电生理方法被认为是评估治疗性骑马的有用方法。

Since the 1960s, there has been a growing interest in the potential of therapeutic horseback riding and a corresponding surge in the number of therapeutic horseback riding programs available. Despite such a rapid increase in therapeutic horseback riding program, however, scientific evidence supporting the claims that have been made regarding the benefits of therapeutic horseback riding is scarce. This lack of solid evidence may limit the development of therapeutic horseback. The aim of the present study was to develop the rehabilitation engineering methods to assess the effect of horseback riding for the disabled children. In the literature survey, ten original papers on therapeutic horseback riding from the international scientific jounals were obtained, then were stanslated into Japanese. In the experimental study, the motion analysis of both human subject and horse was performed during horseback riding by accelerography and electromyography. The biomechanical and electrophysiological method was considered to be useful for assessment of therapeutic horseback riding.