This is useful for people with poor coordination of movements. Gradually, doing therapeutic riding, the horse starts to run invalid horse by the reins, less based on the stirrups and is close to a normal landing on a horse, typical of healthy people. So while riding with disabilities does not differ from healthy. This improves his self-esteem and changing attitude toward him around.
 For the disabled, even riding on horseback, going a step, it is useful. In this case, the body receives a periodically varying load on the muscles of the trunk and extremities. This is especially important in asymmetric motor disorders. Periodic load on the motor system helps the patient cope with the fear of an independent movement.
Depending on the disability classes with the horse may be different. If a disabled person in a position to move independently, sometime after acquaintance with the horse, he will learn to ride. In more severe state of employment carried out in a different order. First, to establish initial contact with the horse, the patient is placed on a horse or put it in a special saddle. In the further course of study established a physician and held a special instructor with the patient's parents and other helpers. The results of this treatment appear gradually, but are long lasting. Someone early hour, some later, but almost all people with disabilities receive the enormous benefit and enjoyment of the sessions of hippo therapy.
  Of course, in each case, only a doctor can recommend ways to treat and rehabilitate people with disabilities. Not all cases are allowed to cure disabilities using horses. But those who have used this method not only improved their general physical condition, but really enjoyed the joy of communicating with horses.
As mentioned above, there are disabled who cannot engage in therapeutic horseback riding. Such patients may help to communicate with other animals: dolphins, cats, dogs. For many reasons, not all can
participate in treatment sessions with dolphins.