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RecruitingNCT05755295EQUI-HIPPOUpdated Jul 13, 2023

Horse Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults in Remission From Medulloblastoma

An interventional study of horse therapy in Neuroblastoma, sponsored by University Hospital, Toulouse. Recruiting at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 10 Years to 26 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-07-13.

Sponsored by University Hospital, Toulouse · Not applicable, Interventional, and Supportive care

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was expected by Mar 2025, 1 year 7 months ago, but the record still lists the study as recruiting.
  • Started Apr 2023; still recruiting 3 years 6 months later.
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
10 Years to 26 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

On average, each year in the former region, 60 new patients under the age of 18 are treated for a brain tumor, with an active post-treatment follow-up file of 350 patients. Because of the significant sequelae induced by the disease or the treatments, these patients will very often require rehabilitative care.

The interest of involving the horse in the population of patients cured of a medulloblastoma but with important physical and psychological after-effects is to be able to combine a therapy using animal mediation (equitherapy) and a rehabilitation therapy based on the three-dimensional movement of the horse (hippotherapy).

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Conditions studied

  • Neuroblastoma

Keywords

  • hippotherapy
  • equitherapy
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In context

Neuroblastoma

625 studies on the registry are indexed under Neuroblastoma; 122 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 15 is below the median of 32 across 475 interventional studies indexed under Neuroblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Toulouse is the lead sponsor of 794 studies on the registry; 214 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
10 Years to 26 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • complete remission of medulloblastoma and after 5 years of the end of treatment
  • living within 30 km away the riding center and/or less than 1 hour of transport
  • informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Landsky score below 50% for minors until 16 years old and Karnofsky score below 50% for patients over 16 years
  • major under juridical protection
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Supportive care
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
15 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    horse therapy

    Other: horse therapy

Interventions

  • Otherhorse therapy

    equitherapy and hippotherapy once a week during 16 weeks

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. number of sessions performed

    number of sessions equitherapy and hippotherapy performed

    Time frame: 16 weeks

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 13, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05755295
Lead sponsor
University Hospital, Toulouse
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Mar 6, 2023
Start date
Apr 3, 2023
Primary completion
Mar 1, 2025 (estimated)
Completion
Mar 1, 2026 (estimated)
Last update
Jul 13, 2023

Study contacts

Anne-Isabelle BERTOZZI, MD
Contact
bertozzi.ai@chu-toulouse.fr
05 34 55 86 83 ext. 33
Françoise AURIOL, MD
Contact
auriol.f@chu-toulouse.fr
Anne-Isabelle BERTOZZI, MD
principal investigator · University Hospital, Toulouse

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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