Treatment by horses, or hippotherapy – the type of an animaloterapiya applied still by Hippocrates. Hippotherapy received the greatest distribution in the middle of the XX century, after gaining a silver Olympic medal in equestrian sport of Lise Hartell - the patient poliomelity girls.
Instruction
1. The range of diseases and problems which it is possible to treat horses is rather wide. It is a cerebral palsy, violations of the motive sphere, damage of sense organs, neuropathies, neurosises, intellectual backwardness, autism, cardiovascular diseases, a hypertension, mental diseases. Treat by means of hippotherapy and children with logonevrologichesky problems, deviant behavior, hyperactivity, deficiency of attention. In some clinics for treatment and social adaptation of addicts and alcoholics also works ippoterapevt.
2. The horse in hippotherapy acts also as the "exercise machine" directed to a training of certain groups of muscles and as "psychotherapist" thanks to whom there is a correction of the psychoemotional sphere. The person sitting on a horse constantly is in balance search. Thanks to it muscles develop, sense organs and a vestibular mechanism train.
3. In the course of treatment between the patient and a horse special relationship is built. This animal is very susceptible to emotions of the person and his physical state. Well prepared horse gets used to the patient, remembers him and behaves as expect from it. If the patient feels uncertainly, the horse is lucky him accurately, giving to the rider feeling of stability. At full confidence the animal becomes the true conductor of the person to the real world.
4. Children with the broken perception of the communication with a horse surrounding later become quieter, at them fears disappear, memory and attention improve. People with violations of the motive sphere cease to feel awkward for the movements. Thanks to disappearance of a psychological clip and muscular tension, their motility becomes more adequate and exact.
5. The riding causes a lot of the experiences, emotions and feelings mentioning both the top layers, and deep structures of a brain. Thereof there are new neural communications replacing broken. Such property of hippotherapy helps to rehabilitate patients after strokes and other damages of central nervous system. Treatment by horses includes not only driving, but also care for an animal. It helps the person to develop keenness, attentiveness, speed of reaction.
6. Hippotherapy is one of rare ways of treatment at which the patient can even not suspect that he is treated. As a result at patients the uneasiness threshold decreases. And because astride a horse of people is above other people, it improves a self-assessment.