hippotherapy
Noun
Meaning
hippotherapy (uncountable)
(medicine) A specialized physiotherapy treatment that involves having a patient ride a horse to facilitate movement responses.
Examples
Meredith Rook is another therapist at Freedom Reins in Benton (the program is run by Kidsource Therapy and hosted at Harmony In Hooves stables), and has been involved with hippotherapy for about five years.
STAPLES, Minn. — With stairs to climb, the alphabet and colors to learn, bubbles to blow and a friendship with a pony to grow, Willow Hines showed her strength during hippotherapy training.
Their organization’s point of difference, MacLeod and O’Mahony decided, would be hippotherapy.
To learn more about hippotherapy through Kidsource, visit KidsourceTherapy.