Healing Through Hippotherapy: A Legacy of Love
Excerpt from Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity.
“Children with physical disabilities are benefitting from hippotherapy sessions, a unique form of therapy using horses. Funded by Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, this project is made possible thanks to the generosity of “Siobhan’s Legacy of Love,” a fund established in memory of Scotland international rugby player, Siobhan Cattigan. Siobhan’s family, knowing her love for animals, felt that hippotherapy was a fitting project to support.
Hippotherapy sessions, which take place at the Riding for the Disabled Centre in Glasgow, are a therapeutic approach that uses the natural movement of horses to improve the physical, emotional, and sensory functions of children with disabilities. Led by neuro-physiotherapist Kirsten and supported by a team of volunteers, hippotherapy offers a wide range of benefits to the participating children.”
