Hippotherapy

Hippotherapy is intended for people (children, adolescents and adults) with disorders in the posture and movement of various origins:

• NEUROLOGICAL:

• Cerebral palsy (CP),
• Status after brain injury,
• Development conditional nervous disorders,
• Multiple sclerosis (MS),
• Dystonia,
• Central hypotonia,
• State after a CVI,
• Paraplegia,
• Dysmelija (congenital disfigurement of extremities),
• Spasmodic torticollis,
• Muscular dystrophy,
• Ataxia,
• Athetosis.

• ORTHOPEDIC:

• Rheumatic diseases of children, adolescents and adults,
• Back problems,
• Scoliosis,
• Muscular balance disorder (eg. sheet after amputation),
• Gait abnormality.

• OBJECTIVE: To improve neurological movement disorders.

• IMPACT:

• General regulation of muscle tone,
• Stretch of shortened muscles,
• Alignment of the torso and control of the torso,
• Training selective movements of the pelvis,
• Training and the establishment of independent stance and balancing reactions,
• Activating the reactions of the torso which are specific for walking,
• Symmetrical stance and reciprocal movement of the pelvis,
• Improving the balance and coordination,
• Learning sensory perception,
• Learning coordination and improving the differentiation of individual muscle groups,
• Control of the head (facilitation of controlling the head, which affects the control of the mouth, salivation, feeding and speech),
• Functional mobilization of joints,
• Breathing exercises,
• Prevention of contractures.