Therapeutic Riding/Horse Assisted Activities

• Recreation/leisure

• Sport/Education

• Vocational/Horse

• Improvement in social skills, quality of life and mobility

• Includes riding, driving, vaulting and ground work adapted as needed for individual participant

• Goals include riding ability, acquisition of leisure skill, self accomplishment, animal/human interaction. Goals are horse related

• Implemented by trained instructor

• Therapists as consultants

Hippotherapy/Horse Assisted Therapy

• Hippotherapy (HPOT)

• Horse Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP)

• Horse Facilitated Therapy (EFT)

• Attainment of therapy based goals as per professional designation and functional outcomes assessed during evaluation

• Goals include improved function, rehabilitation, not necessarily horse related

• HPOT - mounted use of the horse's movement to achieve therapy based goals

• EFP - mounted or unmounted activities, use of equine/human relationships to achieve therapy based goals

• EFT - mounted or unmounted activities using horse skills to achieve functional goals

• Implemented by licensed/credentialed medical human service professional, PT, OT, SLP, or Psychologist