Therapeutic riding programs : instruction and rehabilitation : a handbook for instructors and therapists /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Engel, Barbara Teichmann, Galloway, Margaret L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durango, CO : Barbara Engel Therapy Services, [1992]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Human-horse bonding
  • From the rider's point of view
  • Programs in therapeutic riding
  • What is therapeutic riding?
  • How does therapeutic riding work?
  • Horse
  • Conformation of the horse and its relation to therapeutic riding
  • Conformation-movement-temperament of the horse: as they relate to the rider in a therapeutic riding program
  • Training and schooling the therapeutic riding horse
  • Stable management for therapeutic riding horses
  • Human behavior: normal and abnormal
  • Human functioning and therapeutic riding
  • Physiological systems affecting the rider
  • Disabilities encountered in therapeutic riding
  • Improving the rider's posture
  • Mastery of instruction
  • Instruction
  • Instructor
  • Lesson planning
  • Adaptive and standard tack; equipment for the arena, for lesson games and for competition for therapeutic riding programs
  • Staff and volunteers
  • Execution of the therapeutic riding lesson
  • Horsemanship lessons
  • Advanced instruction
  • Equestrian activities
  • Competition with riders with disabilities
  • Programs involving therapeutic riding.
  • (cont) Equine-assisted therapy
  • Defining equine-assisted therapy
  • Occupational and physical therapy with the use of the horse
  • Recreational therapy with the horse
  • Developmental riding therapy: history and evolution
  • Speech-language pathology applied in the riding setting
  • Psychological treatment with the horse.