After earning an associate degree, she plans to earn a bachelor's degree in special education, then channel her passion for horses into a career in
hippotherapy.
Pal-O-Mine provides a variety of programs which include: Adaptive Riding and Unmounted Horsemanship, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, Equine Assisted Learning,
Hippotherapy, Military and First Responder Wellness Programs and Corporate Leadership Workshops.
The Unicorn Centre has partnered with member of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Therapeutic Riding and
Hippotherapy, Victoria Warburton, to deliver
Hippotherapy, and two people are already benefitting.
Massage therapy,
hippotherapy (riding horses), and music therapy help with my social skills and also reduce my stress.
Ms Sargeant, from Buckley, has been a regular visitor to Clwyd Special Riding Centre in Llanfynydd since losing the use of her legs, receiving "
hippotherapy" - physiotherapy on horseback.
Houry had to travel to Texas in the US to receive training and certification in
hippotherapy, a form of physiotherapy using the movement of a horse to replicate the sensory and motor output of the human pelvis in walking.
Although it is similar to the use of therapeutic devices in a clinic, such as swing or Swiss ball,
hippotherapy offers more sensory-motor stimulation and a link between rider and horse that cannot be artificially simulated in clinics or with a lifeless horse.
This study took place in the context of exploring the effectiveness of
hippotherapy practice and a newly developed measure called the
Hippotherapy Evaluation and Assessment Tool (HEAT).
Department of
Hippotherapy Welfare, SungDuk C.University, Yeongcheon 38801, Korea