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Description
One niche practice area in Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Speech Language Pathology practice is hippotherapy. This practice area involves equine movement as part of the therapeutic process. My capstone experience was completed at Transitions Physical Therapy, with Lisa Harris as my mentor. I completed 14 weeks of hands-on, patient directed learning with direct, supervised patient handling, equine handling, and observing how the therapeutic process can involve equine movement to benefit patient goals. In this experience, I created a 46-page resource guide to include five parent handouts, describing the nature of hippotherapy and OT/PT. This resource guide also included twelve intervention guides for therapists use, including a mock intervention session with intervention ideas and considerations for 12 diagnosis/difficulty foci. This resource also considered what equine movement may, and may not, benefit every condition, as well as specific patient handling techniques. Overall, this resource guide can be used as a supportive and inspiring tool to form intervention plans in this niche practice area. As more therapists become involved in this practice area, it is the hope of this author that through hands-on clinical skills and interprofessional collaboration a better relationship will form between the worlds of occupational and physical therapy.
Graduation Date
1-1-2024
Disciplines
Occupational Therapy
Degree Type
Open Access Capstone
Document Type
Poster
Site Mentor
Lisa Harris
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