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Therapy or Quackery?
What makes it legit? Is it enough for the horse trainer to be in recovery themselves, or should there also be a trained and licensed therapist involved, at least if it is going to be presented or intended as anything approaching the word therapy?
See the following:
What makes it legit? Is it enough for the horse trainer to be in recovery themselves, or should there also be a trained and licensed therapist involved, at least if it is going to be presented or intended as anything approaching the word therapy?
See the following:
- http://psychcentral.com/lib/equine-assisted-psychotherapy-healing-therapy-or-just-hype/
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http://www.aetna.com/cpb/medical/data/100_199/0151.html said:In an article on hippotherapy, Tuttle (1987) stated that research on the effect and application of the various forms of therapeutic horseback riding is needed to refine program planning, and to support funding and third party reimbursement. Furthermore, a workshop on “The Health Benefits of Pets” sponsored by the National Institutes of Health concluded that “solid data on the success of therapeutic riding is limited. ... Future research is indicated to compare the efficacy of therapeutic riding with other clinical treatment procedures that do not involve the horse and to validate dramatic clinical observations” (NIH, 1983). Additionally, in an article published in the Journal of American Veterinarian Medicine Association, Potter and colleagues (1994) stated that “Lack of scientific documentation of the benefits of therapeutic riding is a major obstacle that must be overcome. ... Research is critically needed in all aspects of therapeutic riding”.
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animals-and-us/201411/does-animal-assisted-therapy-really-work
- http://www.asatonline.org/research-...-review-of-the-effectiveness-of-hippotherapy/
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