What is Hippotherapy?

Bonnie DePue, founder of C.H.U.M Therapeutic Horseback Riding, explains what Hippotherapy is and tells the story of Nicholas and how Hippotherapy is helping him.

[@kristymichel792]

Hi lovely video I have mild cp. and I used to do Hippotherapy but I did a class when I was a little girl at the age of three but I did Hippotherapy in 2011 but I’m not doing any more and now I’m on a walker but I’m trying to get off of it. I’m doing therapy at Kiser and it’s helping and today I’m going to therapy and I’m going to talk to my therapist about doing Hippotherapy again. I have mild Cabral Palsy on my right side only

[@slhayes93]

Your comparison of therapeutic riding and hippotherapy at the beginning is confusing. You touch on this at 0:39 but I can't tell if you are trying to explain hippotherapy or therapeutic riding.Therapeutic riding is where they learn riding skills and horsemanship. Hippotherapy is the OT, PT, speech, psych where they have therapeutic goals and the horse is the medium but they do not necessarily learn riding skills.

[@lisagay7271]

Beautiful,,video,,with,,sweat,,child,,and,horse 😄😥😉😄😙