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Therapeutic Horse Back Riding of a Spinal Cord Injured Veteran: A Case Study

Glennys Asselin, Julius H. Penning, Savithri Ramanujam, Rebecca Colina Neri, Constance Ward

Rehabilitation Nursing · 2012 · 14 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Veterans returning from the Iraq/Afghanistan war with traumatic brain injuries, blast injuries, depression, traumatic amputations, and spinal cord injuries may benefit from this nurse-assisted therapy involving the horse.

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Improvements in Muscle Symmetry in Children with Cerebral Palsy After Equine-Assisted Therapy (Hippotherapy)

Nancy H. McGibbon, Kathryn L. Grant · The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine · 2003 · 261 citations

Evaluation of therapeutic riding (Sweden)/hippotherapy (United States). A single-subject experimental design study replicated in eleven patients with multiple sclerosis

Ann M. Hammer, Ylva Nilsagård, Anette Forsberg et al. · Physiotherapy Theory and Practice · 2005 · 111 citations

The short-term effect of hippotherapy on spasticity in patients with spinal cord injury

Helmut Lechner, S Feldhaus, L Gudmundsen et al. · Spinal Cord · 2003 · 84 citations · Full text

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