"A half-hour session of hippotherapy once a week can help children develop this control."

Wagon-bed riding may be considered a special kind of hippotherapy.

That was Driw, the groom who helped with the hippotherapy.

This later became known as hippotherapy in the US.

"One reason hippotherapy can help is the basic 'A' frame of the horse," she explains.

Treeless saddles have started to become popular in horse therapy and hippotherapy.

The effectiveness of hippotherapy for many of these indications is unclear, and more research has been recommended.

An alternative is to provide written evidence of scholarly activity appropriate to the field of hippotherapy.

But his mother, Helen, says that by doing hippotherapy for the last three years, James has come into his own.

This is different from hippotherapy, where the movement of the horse influences or facilitates an adaptive response in the patient.

A distinction exists between hippotherapy and therapeutic horseback riding.

Using hippotherapy, appropriate sensory processing strategies have been integrated into the treatment to facilitate successful communication.

There is a lack of scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of hippotherapy in the treatment of autism.

In fact Esha is having hippotherapy, a little known treatment for profoundly disabled children which appears to be having some stunning results.

Children with profound problems can gain a new lease of life by undergoing hippotherapy, says Cherrill Hicks.

In Germany hippotherapy was treatment by a physiotherapist, a specially trained horse, and a horse handler.

For the most severely disabled, there is hippotherapy, in which they are simply placed on the horse, often with only a sheepskin between them and the animal.

Sensory processing via hippotherapy simultaneously addresses the vestibular, proprioceptive, tactile, visual and auditory systems.

Derived from the Greek hippos (horse), "hippotherapy" literally refers to treatment or therapy aided by a horse.

Those who pass are board-certified in hippotherapy, and entitled to use the HPCS designation after their name.

"She loves having hippotherapy," says Manisha, 29, who works in local government near the family home in Ilford, Essex.

Equine-assisted therapies such as therapeutic horseback riding and hippotherapy are additional treatments that can positively influence gait, balance and quality of life in people with MS.

The occupational therapist incorporates the movement of the horse, hippotherapy, to modulate the sensory system in preparation for a therapy or treatment goal that leads to a functional activity.

"We need to provide an evidence base for the effectiveness of hippotherapy," says Munro, who is keen to develop objective measurements of improvements from hippotherapy.

Unlike therapeutic horseback riding (where specific riding skills are taught), the movement of the horse is a means to a treatment goal when utilizing hippotherapy as a treatment strategy.