How can hippotherapy be used for improving postural control, balance, and walking?
Hippotherapy is the preferred tool for improving postural control, balance, and walking because it offers distinct advantages not found in other therapies. Considering stability, the horse provides a broad, stable base of support, while at the same time, challenging the patient’s stability with its rhythmic, reciprocal motion. Orientation is challenged each time the horse changes direction, or has an upward or downward transition, requiring the realignment of body segments in response to inertial forces. Hippotherapy improves integration and interpretation of movement information by a variety of opportunities to learn dynamic postural control, including movement through space and gradability of movement. Adaptive capabilities are enhanced by the variability of the hippotherapy experience, engaging the patient in active problem solving. The coordination and timing of motor strategies are refined by the consistent and repetitive nature of the horse’s motion, providing thousands of opport
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