Hippotherapy helps both children and adults cope with serious conditions such as cerebral palsy, poliomyelitis, sensory impairments, hearing or vision loss, sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, schizophrenia, epilepsy and autism. Therapy with horses also helps with intellectual disability, various difficulties in
social adaptation and behavioural problems, neuroses, psychoses and delayed mental development, and it is used in post-operative rehabilitation and in many other cases. How are results achieved that are sometimes beyond the reach of conventional medicine?

Scientists have found that the success of hippotherapy is linked to several factors. First, the horse is receptive to many human emotional reactions. Words matter less to it than the tone in which they are spoken. This animal has a good memory and is able to form habits. Its behaviour is quite predictable, so it can give a sense of stability – and this sense lies at the heart of helping children overcome fear.

RIDING STIMULATES THE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL SYSTEMS OF OUR BODY!