Horse Riding Schools

If you’ve ever owned an animal, you know that being around them can be extremely therapeutic. After a stressful day at work or school, it is always nice to come home to your pet and feel comforted by them. Many dog owners even claim that their dogs can feel their pain. However, if you speak to anyone who has been spent their life around horses, they’ll tell you that the connection between horse and rider is unlike any other. Norwegian researcher Anita Maurstad explains in a recent article, that over time horse and rider can become so attuned to each other that they develop a state of co-being. Maurstad also found, through research, that horses appear to learn to relate to humans in ways that provide them with a good quality of life. A recent study from Washington State university has concluded that kids who work with horses have significantly lower stress levels. In addition to these, there have been numerous other studies that show that working with horses decreases blood pressure, reduced feelings of anger, tension, and anxiety. Riding horses also allows you to gain feelings of self esteem, empowerment, patience, and trust. Because of the overwhelming positive effects that horses seem to have, horses are no longer being used just for recreational or agricultural

Race horses are animals and they deserve to have rights, not to be abused for human entertainment. Race horse abuse is severely cruel and harmful in so many ways. These horses should not have to suffer abuse mainly for people’s amusement or monetary gain. Thankfully there are laws that are trying to be passed and adoption groups to help end this unnecessary abuse. With the equipment the rider and trainer use, drugs they administer, health problems, and abandonment; race horses are abused daily, but there are ways to help these poor souls.

Before we jump into the main question, let's jump back to where it all started. Horse therapy dates back to around 600 b.c when the greeks rode horses for therapy. Later, in around 1946 equine therapy then was introduced in Scandinavia. Which then led to the North Americans beginning the handicapped riding which started around 1969. They soon recognized that riding horses or just being

There have been many different events in my life that have contributed to my personal and academic development. However the most notable would be me volunteering at a therapeutic riding academy. Therapeutic riding has been shown to be effective for many physical and mental disabilities including autism, strokes, cerebral palsy, and even ADD/ADHD. At the center where I volunteered, the majority of the clients were children, and as I love horses and working with children, it seemed like the perfect fit.

SPC Montes’ has filled an important role of being a side – walker during lessons, providing physical and verbal support of ensuring safe horse handling during class. He provided training to the new oncoming volunteers on the “do’s and don’ts” of the property.

There is little evidence of how horses were managed within the first years of domestication (Dierendonc). However, in most horse husbandry systems today horses are kept confined and solitary with very little social contact. This can be seen as optimal to ensure physical health, to prevent injury or to allow exact individual monitoring (Dierendonc, 2006). However, these systems often ignore the basic needs of the horse, e.g. social contact, foraging and locomotion needs, often resulting in abnormal behaviours. The start of stereotypic behaviour usually is related to chronic stress due to mal-adaptations to cope with the environment (Hausberger et al., 2009).

Equine therapy helps the special needs population by letting them ride horses as part of their therapy. 20% of the special needs population is affected by disabilities, which is equal to 1.1 million people in Houston (Panther Creek Inspiration Creek). Equine therapy helped Sophia with her emotions and helped her calm down in care rides (Jennifer Sanchez). The population with cognitive, psycho-motor and behavioral disabilities have improved with equine therapy (“What is Equestrian therapy?”). The horses provide a movement that helps the special with their spines and the nerves. The equine therapy also helps by providing a communication abilities, better balance, and motor skills (Texas Agriculture). This lesson is usually only 30-45 minutes long, but it helps with the rider’s goals. The students and horses are matched by personality, ability, and

Do you have the medical records and shots information for each of these horses? If so, I will need a copy of each record for each horse. No, but I do have a medical doctor on call to provide medical assistance to my horses, whenever need. I told Mr. Rudd that he needs to try to obtain the medical shot records from the doctor prior to meeting me to sign the rental agreement. It is

1st point: Horses and Ponies are both really sensitive (Hausberger 6). “ A horse can live for 25 years. With great care, some horses can live for 30 years or more.” In the United States, there are more than 750 Therapeutic Riding Centers” (Nichols 25). Horses are stars of ice sculpture (Williams 6). They did a survey on how many horses were responsible in the accident. The survey said horses were 15% responsible in horse accidents. A Report says that horses aren’t even nervous at the time of the accident. Dogs and cattle have a higher accident rate than horses have alone (Hausberger 3). Horses are not just for therapy, they are also used for transportation and pets (Scott 18). Unlike house pets, horses are not kept

Winston Churchill once stated,“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man,” that statement certainly rings true when discussing the topic of Equine Assisted Therapy. Since Ancient Greece, people have been using horseback riding as a form of therapy to help people who are disabled to improve their lives physically, mentally, and emotionally. Despite the fact that horseback riding is typically dismissed as a form of physical therapy, the physical, mental, and emotional benefits prove that therapeutic riding is a valuable form of therapy.

Horses are very much a social and many of the show horses are forced into small stalls without any social interactions with other horses or able to forage for hours like they would normally. Antonia J. Z. Henderson writes in her article states that, “Performance has tended to be a key indicator of a horse’s psychological health.” She also says that out of 1,750 competitive horses, 32% are dressage, 30.8% eventers, and 5% are endurance who are then put back in their stalls with no break from their “home.” When these athletic horses are forced inside tiny stalls they get bored like a little kid stuck in time out. The consequences to this boredom is wood chewing, cribbing, and pacing in the stall. A big downside to the these very active horses is ulcers inside the stomach. The easiest way to fix these boredom issues is being allowed to have a buddy to fix their social needs and allowing the horses to graze a couple of hours in the day. Most of the inhumane treatment is supposed to be the “best” thing for the horses in their show life, but is making their life worse. Imagine what makes you you being taken from you and you are left with nothing, but the leftovers. This feeling is what horses feel when they are put in a high demanding active lifestyle and treated inhumanely. Being able to hang with other horses and able to graze on grass will increase their performance from where it

When horseback riding to be safe there are things you must know or remember. The first thing to remember is finding a horse that temperament matches the rides experience. Not having the right horse can put the rider and horse at risk, the rider needs to be able to control the horse. Horses are very smart and know when they rider does not know what they are doing; horses are still animals and will take control if they know they can. Before riding you should be familiar with the horse behavior. Being familiar with the horse you are riding gives you a bond, it also help you be able to feel more comfortable. Make sure the tack you are using on your horse fit the horse properly. Also make sure that the equipment you are using is not worn or damaged.

There are many certified Horse Therapy Centers such as Path International. They offer therapeutic riding sessions that improve motor skills and brain function. Equine riding can help many disabled children. Children with Cerebral Palsy can benefit greatly from these sessions. “a” was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy when she was a toddler after suffering

The article written by Pendry, Smith & Roeter (2014) discusses the effects of equine facilitated learning on adolescents’ basal cortisol levels. In healthy adolescents, basal cortisol levels were highest in the morning and dropped rapidly throughout the day with troughs around midnight. Although equine involved programs have become increasingly popular over the last decade, prior to this article no research has been published on the effects that horses have on human development and emotional wellbeing. The experiment was conducted over an eleven-week period with students from different schools, fifth through eighth grade, in a rural university town in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States (Pendry et al., 2014). Subject referrals came from school counselors who had been treating students for academic and/or behavioral issues. The group of students participating included forty-one males and seventy-two females with an average age of eleven years. Participants were predominantly Caucasian or Hispanic. The students were randomly divided into two groups with fifty-three assigned to experimental conditions and sixty assigned to waitlisted conditions. The independent variable in this experiment is participation in the eleven-week program. The dependent variable would be the children that were waitlisted. The research was conducted through survey and experiment conditions (King L. A., 2014). Parents of the participants were asked to fill out several questions

Horses are one of the most loving and loyal creatures. Unfortunately, some people don’t see that side of them. They only see the aggressive side. What they don’t know is that by treating them like machines, they’re causing the aggressiveness. Horses are incredibly loving and willing to do what you ask of them; but only if you love, and care for them back. It makes me so sad to see horses in pain. It is also a tragedy that because these people are mistreating their horses they don’t know what it is like to have a strong bond with them. Having a strong connection and affection for a horse is one of the best kinds of love.