instructor with an undergraduate degree in equitation (the art of riding on horseback), has been happily engaged in therapeutic riding with C.A.R.T. since 1998. “We started with four horses and seven students. Now we have 10 horses and 35 students,” says Daly. A therapeutic riding horse must be gentle and patient in order to meet the tasks at hand. Horses like Apollo, Beauty, Bob, Charlie, Cindy Lou Who, Flash, Ginger, Lilly, Shadow and Summer make the job possible.
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occupational therapy in a clinic, Daly says C.A.R.T.’s mission is to bring the joy and fun — and the tactile sensation of being out in nature, reins in hand — to its students. “Treatment,” in this model, looks to the synchronous
experience
between people and animals’ musculature. “The gait of a horse is just like ours,” Daly says. “Riding transmits
a horse’s hip motions and nerve impulses to a person’s” carrying restorative potential for the latter’s nerves along the spine and hip joints. “It’s great to
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