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Hippotherapy
ELIZABETH BECKERLEGGE IS A CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND FOUNDER OF RIDING FOR REHAB, A MULTIDISCIPLINARY EQUINE FACILITATED THERAPY PRACTICE BASED IN YORKSHIRE BUT WITH CLIENTS ALL AROUND THE UK. SHE IS CHAIR OF ACPEA, THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN EQUINE ACTIVITIES AND HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE RIDING FOR THE
RDISABLED ASSOCIATION (RDA) FOR MANY YEARS
iding for people with a disability = Greek for horse and therapia = and riding skills are not taught but can be a sport – look at the treatment). In the UK hippotherapy many children or adults who have success of our paradressage is carried out by Physiotherapists, had hippotherapy treatment do
riders – a leisure and pleasure Occupational Therapists or Speech go on to join an RDA group or a
activity or a specific therapy activity. Hippotherapy is the term given to using a horse for treatment (hippos
Therapists who have undertaken specific post-graduate training in this specialism. It is a therapy treatment
commercial riding school in order to learn to ride for sport or a leisure activity.
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