Robbie Foundation helps fund therapeutic horseback riding for children with disabilities. This is what we are all about!

There are many benefits gained from therapeutic horseback riding. This foundation believes that all children should be given the opportunity. Read on to learn more about the benefits.

A horse’s gait, similar to the human walk, helps strengthen spine and pelvic muscles, improves posture and coordination, and increases joint mobility. Along with physical therapeutic benefits, horseback riding gives people a feeling of control, a sense of accomplishment and increased self-esteem. Therapeutic Riding, also known as Equine Assisted Therapy, Equine Facilitated Therapy, and Riding for the Disabled, is the use of horse and equine-oriented activities to achieve a variety of therapeutic goals, including cognitive, physical, emotional, social, educational, and behavioral goals. Horseback riding for the disabled is recognized as one of the more progressive forms of therapy. The ability to control a horse as well as one’s own body inspires self-confidence, responsibility and teamwork.

Best of all, it is a thoroughly enjoyable experience, which creates a special relationship between rider and horse and promotes personal challenge. From the beginning, riders learn balance, coordination and self-assurance while receiving therapeutic muscle stimulation. As a result of lessons, poise, posture, strength and flexibility improve. Classes, horse shows and events encourage self-confidence and a sense of accomplishment as new levels of expertise and self challenges are met.

Thank you to Jacobs’s Ladder for allowing us to borrow these facts.
www.jacobsladderriding.com