In this study, in order to clarify the effect of horseback riding, we conducted an experiment setting a horseback riding simulator as the control group. Moreover, from a report that more than 50% of university students suffer shoulder discomfort and back pain, we selected seven subjects who are all university students and horseback riding beginners with shoulder discomfort and back pain. We weighed the results obtained in this experiment regarding the kind of effect horseback riding, which causes natural fluctuations, has on shoulder discomfort, back pain, mood, and the autonomic nerve activity, and then compared these findings with the effect of a simulator motion, which causes artificial fluctuations.
