Therapeutic riding is a specialized equine activity that provides physical, emotional, and psychological benefits to individuals with special needs. It is a series of adaptive riding lessons, which are individually designed based on the rider’s goals. Through carefully planned activities developed by a health professional and a certified riding instructor, the horse is used as a treatment tool. The movement of the horse at walk provides sensory input that stimulates normal muscle responses in humans. “The MSU Department of Kinesiology’s research program includes gait analysis n how the movement of the horse affects the human gait. A horse’s pelvis is almost identical to a human’s. When humans ride a horse at walk, their vestibular system is stimulated as if they are walking,”
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Making ‘Sense’ of It All’ Treating Sensory Processing Problems in EI
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Though clinical observations as to sensory processing disorders can be made formally and informally in early intervention, formal observations of these abilities in babies include the administration of standardized and non-standardized tests such as the Infant/Toddler Sensory Profile6 and the Test of Sensory Functions in Infants.7