Recommendation to hippotheraphy for people with following problems:

• Down syndrome
• Mental disorder
• Autism
• Neurosis
• Learning difficulties caused by sensory coordination disorder and dyslexia
• ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
• Behavioural Disorder

Neurological problems:

• Multiple Sclerosis
• Cerebral palsy
• Parkinson’s disease
• Poliomyelitis
• Myelomeningocele
• Peripheral neuropathy
• And more

Orthopaedic problems:

• Deformation of hips and knees
• Torticollis (wryneck)
• Prenatal Physical Disability (lack of limbs) or amputation
• Scoliosis

Therapeutic effects.

DOCTORS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH CONFIRM:

• Reducing of pathological reflexes,
• Improving the body symmetry,
• Mobilization of a support spondylitis,
• Improving the mobility of joins of the spine and the limbs,
• Significant improvement of mobility,
• Improvement of peristalsis,
• Improvement of blood circulation,
• Significant improvement of body balance,
• Significant improvement in muscle tone of spastic patients,
• Improvement of lung’s function.

IN OPINIONS OF PSYCHOLOGISTS, EDUCATORSAND PARENTS ARE BEING SAID:

• Increasing the pace of the response so- called psychomotor speedimprovement especially in people with Down syndrome,
• Improvement of the emotional state of persons with disabilities,
• Reduction of emotional tension, tranquillity, calm,
• Improvement of concentration,
• Improvement of coordination,
• Improving orientation in the pattern of their body and space,
• Speech improvement (pronunciation and vocabulary and greaterwillingness of verbal communication),
• Improvement of self- confidence and self- esteem,
• Significant improvement of physical fitness,
• Better relations with peers and adults.

Contraindications for hippotherapy.

ABSOLUTE CONTRINDICATIONS:

• Allergy to hair, sweat or smell of the horse,
• Do not healed wounds,
• Intolerance form of treatment for the patient, such as uncontrollable anxiety,
• Peel the retina of the eye, increased intraocular pressure,
• Deterioration of the neurological syndromes, states of the cranio-cerebral trauma, ADHD, muscle diseases,
• Dislocation of the hip joints,
• The pain of the rides,
• Peak-rotational instability (cervical vertebrae C3-C4, such as Down Syndrome in the team)m
• Lack of control of the head in motor development, degeneration or acute inflammation in the spine threatening damage to the nerves, including spinal curvature greater than 20° a scale Cobb,
• Increased body temperature,
• Acute infectious diseases,
• Emaciation of the body such as cancer,
• Acute diseases and mental disorders,
• Significant overweight.

 

RELATIVE CONTRAINDICATION – CHOOSE DOCTOR AND HIPPOTERAPIST

• Epilepsy,
• Mental retardation profound,
• Disorders of bone mineralization (osteoporosis),
• The fixed deformity and distortion, contractures, significant limitations on the scope of movement of the osteoarticular system,
• Ophthalmologic Disorders.