The animals have a healing touch with their emotional support. Spending time around animals and interacting with them has a stress-reducing effect. Equine therapy is well known for its advantages and results. They help with mental health patients, counseling, and psychotherapy. Many equestrian centers have opened their doors to those in need of any kind of therapy.

Recently, a noble gesture was shown by a major equestrian center and provided a sense of hope among the hopeless. The Pleasanton Equestrian Center, situated in San Francisco came forward to support a traveling trail program, in which miniature horses are sent to the hospitals that have children with disabilities to give therapeutic healing.

Equestrian Center’s noble contribution

According to CBSNEWS, the equestrian center in a noble cause sends a miniature horse called Windy to George Mark Children’s House to visit the children who are suffering from severe medical conditions or have fatal conditions with not much time to live. The horse helps the patients relax and slow their breathing by placing its head on their lap and allowing them to touch her. This calms the patient while enjoying the interaction. The horse goes inside the hospital for patients who cannot go outside of the ward for medical conditions. The staff awaits the horse every month and is also happy to see Windy interacting with patients.

The program of traveling trail that brings horses to hospice and care houses has a good impact on the young souls. The therapy horses are trained in the work and are coached to remain calm and quiet in those situations.

These horses are delicate, well-behaved, and easy to interact which helps tremendously kids with mental and physical disabilities. This noble program not only helps the patients but also their households and attendants.

It helps in the elevation of pressure through distraction from a tough situation they are dealing with every day. This equine therapy program got acceptability and support from the people over the years after witnessing its positive effects.

About Equine Therapy

Equine therapy is an old concept since ancient times and became popular during the 1950s and 60s. The purpose of equine-related therapy was to help people manage their emotions better, improve their mental processes, and have self-confidence. In this kind of therapy, the horse’s interaction with humans is used to heal the patient. This therapy helps in children’s cases because it is less threatening and more emotionally interactive. In cases like anxiety,  trauma, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, this therapy plays a major role in treatment along with other medical procedures.

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The equine therapy effort by the equestrian center is applaudable and the community must aid such efforts to bring change in the lives of those affected.

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