Coming soon! Equine Assisted Therapy

The term hippotherapy refers to how occupational therapy professionals use evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning in the purposeful manipulation of equine movement as a therapy tool to engage sensory, neuromotor and cognitive systems to promote functional outcomes.

Best practice dictates that occupational therapy hippotherapy into the patient’s plan of care, along with other therapy tools and/or strategies. 

Hippotherapy can be utilized in as a treatment tool or strategy by occupational therapy while working within their scope of practice.