'Healing By Horseback' provides a facility and resources for speech, physical and occupational therapy services to be provided to individuals with disabilities in Northwest Arkansas. Benefits of Hippotherapy are seen in a variety of diagnoses/impairments:
Down Syndrome
Dyspraxia
Social/Communication Delays and more...
Hippotherapy refers to how occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology professionals use evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning in the purposeful manipulation of equine movement to engage sensory, neuromotor, and cognitive systems to achieve functional outcomes.
Professionals may use a horse as a treatment tool within their therapy session, just as they might use a ball, balance beam, physio ball or toy. Horses are carefully chosen for their temperament and the type of movement they produce. All are specifically trained for their unique role within therapy sessions and are guided by professional horse handlers, which optimizes safety and effectiveness.
Visit our website to find out even more about the great opportunities:
www.healingbyhorseback.org