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. Scientists have found that the success of hippotherapy is linked to several factors: the horse is receptive to human emotions, has a good memory and behaves predictably. In this way it gives children a sense of stability, confidence and calm.