Top 7: Equine-assisted Therapy for People with Disabilities in Netherlands
Equine-assisted therapy and therapy for people with disabilities has a wide range of areas. Horses are great therapists for people in different disciplines. This is fact because horses have in their history as escape animals learned to interpret troubles by perceiving mental and physical signals of animals and people around them. So they are good in the interpretation of a problem, when they meet humans for example. A horse can help with this special ability to help people with mental or physical diseases. There are three different acting fields in Hippotherapy, which can be devided:
- Medical area - which means equine-assisted therapy or the so called "Hippotherapy"
- Educational or psychologic area - the therapeutic education with horses
- Rehabilitation area - classic riding on horses with special consideration of the physical disability or disease of the person and their motion abilities
These things are also offered by different horseback riding stables in the Netherlands. If your special need is satisfied by them, you can only find out by browsing to their presentation and maybe contact them for your enquiries. These horse farms have told us they are offering programs about horses in interaction with disabled people. So, go ahead and find the riding school, riding farm or horse farm of your choice in the Netherlands.