Italian Matteo is a former shooting champion and is now learning to walk again. After the car accident, he spent several months in a coma, and the body became like a stranger. A horse helps to regain control over it. Hippotherapy sessions are held right in the hospital in Rome. In recent years, medical technology has advanced a lot. It turns out to achieve great success in the field of rehabilitation of patients with brain disorders. But in some situations, expensive equipment and ultra-modern equipment cannot give the result that hippotherapy gives. Therapeutic horseback riding allows you to involve muscles that are not involved in ordinary life. Patients with Parkinson’s disease also undergo such rehabilitation. Because of the disease, their musculoskeletal system also suffers. But hippotherapy is not only about physical recovery. Communication with the horse helps to find spiritual harmony. Doctors say that patients are positively affected by calm breathing and a measured heartbeat of the horse. A person also calms down and is less obsessed with problems. According to doctors, patients also feel that the horse needs human care. This helps to stop perceiving yourself as weak and sick. In 2016, the San Giovanni Battista Hospital became the first medical institution in Italy where horses are kept and hippotherapy sessions are performed. It is also the only such hospital in Rome so far.
HORSES HELP TREAT PATIENTS AT A HOSPITAL IN ROME
