Therapeutic riding programs : instruction and rehabilitation : a handbook for instructors and therapists /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durango, CO :
Barbara Engel Therapy Services,
[1992]
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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.