EQ: How can Hippotherapy best help a child with a developmental disorder reach a normal walking pattern?
Answer 3: Hippotherapy can best help a child reach normal walking pattern if it is used in conjunction with standard physical therapy.
Details:
Firstly, Hippotherapy sessions are irregular, and short. Two thirty-minute sessions per week, is all.
Hippotherapy's benefits tend to be lost if effort at habilitation ends at the same time the Hippotherapy ends. Continuing therapy is essential for the child to thrive.
Treating a child with standard physical therapy in conjunction with Hippotherapy has been proven to be effective, shown by multiple cases from Leaps and Bounds.
Source: Mentorship, http://www.archives-pmr.org/article/S0003-9993%2807%2901284-1/fulltext#sec2.2.2
Overall, Hippotherapy does work wonders, but cannot carry a child's development on its own.
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