INTRODUCTION

The use of the horse as a therapeutic treatment is done from the antiquity. Earlier in the
medicine is recommended the mounts of horse as a therapeutic method. In 1875 the
French neurologist Chassiagnac discovered that a horse in motion improves the balance,
the articular movement and muscle control of patients.

The neurologist Chassiagnac made an important discovery in the today many are
benefited with the help of the horse. As it passes the time one could evolve this healing
method and its time of rehabilitation, since the horse not only serves as an instrument of
racing or as an instrument that we see commonly.

EQUINE THERAPY
1. What is the Equine therapy?
Equine therapy is treatment or therapeutic method, where its essential tool is the horse,
followed by the environment.
Allowing the integration, the physical and emotional development of the person who
suffers from a disorder or syndrome, in which need these essential approaches.
The interaction with the animal from the preliminary preparations to the mounted,
unwrap new forms of communication, socialization, self-confidence and self-esteem.
Feel the effect of this animal when you brush, caresses or feeds helps to create a
communication in the form of dialog not verbal".

Equine therapy plays a very important role because aid for the rehabilitation of the
muscles of people, child/ace that have some disease, disorder or syndrome, such as:

Multiple Sclerosis
Down syndrome
Autism
Infantile cerebral palsy (PCI)
Syndrome of Wess, among others.

2. How does it work?

The equine has essential characteristics and who has mounted know all these
characteristics it possesses the horse.
The people, who suffer from some type of syndrome or disability, just know that it is
not the facts feel all its attributes, but that is a therapeutic method that gives very good
results.
A horse to step transmits the rider vibrations that are transmitted by the bone with a
frequency of 180 oscillations per minute, this is equivalent to the information that the
brain receives when we walk.

Also the person who receives this therapy, through the back of the horse receives
massages product of vibrations produced by the movement of the animal, where it runs
from the coccyx up to the crown of the head, in turn passing through the spine.

3. The horse of Therapy

The horse provides three conditions that are special characteristics for its use in the
session, as:

It is said that our body while at rest has a temperature of 38C, but when it is in activity
and is reaches 39C or 40C of temperature during six hours after therapy, is achieved
relax the body human.
In the horse, the three-dimensional movement in function to the gear helps the patient to
recover and recognize features that were suspended for years, for example: when the
patient is at the time of the womb manages to provide great benefits and joy to all
beings that are located around it.

In the case of the impulses rhythmic, the horse gives 110 pulses per minute, similar to
beats in the heart of the human being, since in the therapy the heart rate in regulated,
resulting in relaxation and stimulation positive for patients suffering from a disorder.
Equine therapy differs according to the technical activity:

Therapy Passive

The patient adapts passively to the movement of the horse without any action on your
part leveraging the body heat, pulses rhythmic and the pattern of locomotion
dimensional horse and exercises or massages are assisted by the therapist".
The Horse of therapy is passive, since the patient needs to adapt little by little without
any activity of the horse, to turn the patient takes the body heat of the horse, this
technique is more for people who do not have problems or very serious disruptions and
therefore only need a few rhythmic exercises.
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Therapy Active

In this case the horse must be in activity, since according to what the doctor available,
the patient in need of the mounts of the horse so that your muscles can be encouraged
(in the event that your disability is severe) and this helps the patient can maintain its
balance, which may have coordination and among other things more.

4. Objectives of Equine therapy

The objective of the equine therapy is that patients who suffer from some type of
disorder, to gain through this therapeutic tool, such as:

Improvement in self-esteem
Confidence in itself
Improvement in the strength of its musculature
Improvement of the balance
Improve the coordination
Increases your vocabulary and verbal communication
The improvement with the memory and attention

To develop outdoor Equinoterapia or hippo therapy makes

the patient enjoyment of the environment, may become the
therapy in a real fun. It should be borne in mind that the Equinoterapia should form
part of a comprehensive treatment to assist the patient in their problems, should not
be

viewed

as

therapy

isolated.

Equine therapy not only benefits is these aspects to the patient, because to be

constantly with the horses of therapies teaches to care, to treat them well, even
patients of both be in contact with them, can reach them.

The horses we only accepted but that help us to accept more naturally and
spontaneously to ourselves and to the events as they come, to maintain a state as
healthy as possible for ourselves and already of step to those around us.

CONCLUSION
In order Equine therapy more than a treatment, should be considered as one more
option to neutralize the disability, since it increases the development of the residual
power and capacity of the person who suffers. And to be performed outdoors, allows
the contact with nature, having a favorable effect on the middle psychological and
emotional development of the child.