20 children with disabilities improve their motor through the courses of hipotherapy.
thanks to sport and challenge and the collaboration of Deutsche Bank and Caja Duero.
-this discipline promotes physical and mental development of persons with disabilities.
Madrid, may of 2011- the Foundation sport and challenge has been closed this month hipotherapy courses for people with disabilities, a program that has served to improve the driving of the participants.
in addition, according to the Coordinator of sports programs of the Sports Foundation and challenge, Noelia Peña, their faces are a reflection of the satisfaction that they has produced this activity ”.
the courses, which have been carried out in the school’s riding of St. George, in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid, have shown the benefits of the hipotherapy, an activity that promotes the development of physical and mental of persons with disabilities.
as indicated from the Sports Foundation and challenge, the sessions have been completed in a great way to ”. the improvement of children has been remarkable ”, stress, with a favourable evolution of the position of the trunk in all of them and progress in their skills social.
in addition, during the activity, monitors have managed to not only improve the capabilities of the participants but also the students have enjoyed a few days of coexistence and integration. All this, explain monitors, has helped to enhance their social skills and to increase their autonomy staff.
this initiative has been possible thanks to the Sports Foundation and challenge and the collaboration of Deutsche Bank and Caja Duero. Thanks to them, the participants have been expert monitors in hipotherapy, an activity which is used as an adjunct to other medical therapies for people with disabilities.
its aim is that students, accompanied by a physical therapist or monitor, can improve balance, spatial sense, or even the blood circulation, through contact with the animal.
is a therapy beneficial for people with any type of disability and offers only contraindications for those who have herniated, heart problems or epilepsy.
according to explain teachers who participated in the course, the hipotherapy promotes and enhances balance, coordination and strength. there any apparatus that exercises performed on a horse can do ”, explained. the horse allows a three-dimensional movement: movement forward, upwards and lateral ”.
children with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and autism are some profiles more benefits can be obtained from this therapy which also does not mount. In this way, takes advantage of the degree of temperature with the horses. Is to maximize contact with the horse, and that they receive swings more directly ”.
this therapy can be started by way of early learning with children from even two or three years. In this case it is done in less time and the horse remains lying throughout the year.
the horse must also have some qualities specific. should be horses with a good conformation, with a good character, good domados and docile ”.
the Sports Foundation and challenge.
it is a private non-profit aimed at the social integration of persons with disabilities physical, intellectual or sensory, through sport.
also contributes to training and labour insertion of its participants, combining the Organization of sport activities with courses aimed at their integration into the labour market, allowing in this way to its complete integration.
