Hippotherapy is defined as physical, occupational, or speech therapy while riding a horse during which "the therapist can modify the horse's movement to promote specific responses within the individual" (McKenna Farms, n.d.). It is an alternative and complimentary medicine that has existed in some form since the prominence of the ancient Greeks, and was noted by Hippocrates to be rehabilitative as it involved "healing rhythms" (Granados, A. C., & Agís, I. F., 2011, p. 191). Although ancient in…
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